Booking Holdings Romania - Product Manager - Pipeline

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world’s leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and Rentalcars.com.

Role description

We're looking for a Product Manager to drive a key part of the Partner Centre product area within Strategic Partnerships. You'll own the roadmap for how partners onboard, integrate, and manage their relationship with Booking.com — while meeting platform-grade reliability, privacy, and safety standards. You'll work within a broader product vision led by senior leadership, taking ownership of your area while staying aligned with the end-to-end partner experience. You'll work cross-functionally with teams across the business and partner with commercial teams to ship products used by some of the world's largest travel and consumer internet brands.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Own and lead a product within our Partner Centre area, responsible for the team's vision, mission, roadmap and end to end execution.
• Build and adapt the product strategy to the constantly evolving needs and constraints imposed by the business.
• Build for scale and multiple verticals by extending demand distribution capabilities beyond accommodations to support multi‑vertical partners through reusable services, abstractions, and APIs.
• Lead the migration efforts and contribute to building a unified portal for all partners transitioning under the new company.
• Measuring and communicating the team’s progress and impact to the business leadership in a transparent and effective way. This includes defining key business and services success metrics, tracking them, and improving upon them.
• Guiding new capabilities, systems and services from inception to launch while keeping travelers and partners at the center of everything.
• Deeply understand the direction of the business and the problems customers face; extract and identify requirements from other business initiatives, customer requirements and prioritize them ruthlessly.
• Constantly engage with stakeholders to expand the coverage of the product and create impact.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to define and ship high quality products.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree 
• At least 4 years of experience in product management roles spanning across B2B and B2B2C
• Ability to articulate complex technical products as a clear and compelling narrative.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Be able to clearly communicate with the business at all levels. 
• Strong technical background and experience with managing platform products and complex roadmap development.
• Excellent prioritization skills in time critical situations while balancing customer & business needs.
• The ability to zoom in as well as see a 10,000 ft view
• An analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and analyze alternative solutions.
• Team player with a bottom-up ideation process

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high-scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package 
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.