Senior Data Product Manager - Booking Ads

About Us: At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, lines of code or A/B tests. We’re the thrill of the first night in a new place. The excitement of the next morning. The friends you encounter. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the memories you make. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Role Description: The Advertising & Media Solutions team sits at Booking.com is responsible for the creation and commercialization of a core of partner focused Advertising capabilities. These capabilities are built in house and in collaboration with a small group of partners. Advertising, like all things at Booking, relies heavily on data based decision making. The flood of data that is generated each day helps us better understand travelers, our partners, and the world. The Senior Data Product Manager will help us make sense of this data, ensuring it is usable and of high trustworthiness, building and sharing insights that teams within the company can leverage, and releasing tools that improve our effectiveness using data day after day. Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: Be responsible for the end-to-end delivery of a portfolio of data products. Design, develop and implement data products based on user needs and the company's product strategy and objectives. Explore business opportunities, looking into opportunities on how we can better monetize our inventory. Drive the development and implementation of ML-models helping our system perform more intelligently and more profitably day by day Drive cross-functional collaboration with ML scientists, data engineers, data scientists, data managers and business stakeholders to ensure the delivery of consistent, high-quality data, data integration initiatives, and power our traveller-centric experiences. Prioritise and communicate initiatives with key stakeholders on a regular basis to ensure that all projects and existing functionality are moving towards our defined OKRs. Gather, analyse, and report on data usage, quality, data flows to benchmark and measure the performance of the data products. Striving to continuously improve end user data consumption experience. Ideate, build, and run platform-level & partner-level incrementality experiments, holdout groups, and continuous data exploration for opportunities. Qualifications & Skills: A minimum of 5 years of experience as a Data Product Manager in a large-scale environment, preferably e-commerce or advertising A proven track record of delivering successful data products for user consumption. Experience in improving data workflows, components and data models - working closely with engineers and architects to design and deliver scalable data solutions Strong communication skills - be able to communicate with the business at all levels and across disciplines - data specific, technical and non-technical. Ability to write clear and concise product goals, requirements, status updates and product results Strong stakeholder management, collaboration and influencing skills - able to bring diverse stakeholders together to agree and move forward with an approach or plan. Be highly analytical and methodical in your approach to problem solving, with a track record in developing methodologies to measure the delivery of data products that drive better decisions and understanding Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance: Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include: Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parent, grandparent, bereavement, and care leave Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country) Industry leading product discounts - up to 1400 per year - for yourself, including automatic Genius Level 3 status and Booking.com wallet credit Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) at Booking.com: Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations. Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: “At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn’t just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It’s a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech.” We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Application Process: Let’s go places together: How we Hire This role does not come with relocation assistance. Booking.com 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. Pre-Employment Screening 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.