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 five-primary consumer facing brands: Booking.com, Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

As a Product Manager within our Center of Excellence, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our B2B platforms, technical services, and partner tools. We are continuously building our talent pipeline with top product professionals ready to drive strategic vision across various domains—ranging from high-speed data APIs and unified partner portals to internal self-service platforms.

Success in this role means building reliable, scalable products that provide our global partners with a competitive advantage, modernizing partner data exchange, and accelerating the efficiency of our platforms. You will own the product lifecycle and work cross-functionally with engineering, commercial teams, and senior leadership 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 on-site presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Product Vision & Strategy: Drive the strategic vision, mission, and product roadmap for your respective product area, leading ideation, prioritization, and comprehensive backlog management based on company-wide objectives and market analysis.
• Technical Translation: Translate complex business and partner needs into actionable specifications for the engineering team, facilitating efficient product development and ensuring the timely delivery of features that solve core problems.
• Scalability & Modernization: Proactively identify and lead initiatives for automation, scalability, and platform modernization (including API integrations and multi-vertical capabilities) to enhance the efficiency, reliability, and performance of our services.
• Data-Driven Decision Making: Conduct in-depth analysis of complex qualitative and quantitative data, defining advanced business and product success metrics, and leading continuous improvement efforts based on data-driven insights and A/B experimentation.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Strategically collaborate with design, engineering, and diverse cross-functional teams, providing thought leadership and guidance to ensure the delivery of high-quality product outcomes that align with strategic business objectives.
• Stakeholder Management: Exercise advanced stakeholder management by collaborating continuously with B2B partners, commercial teams, and internal stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment, proactively navigate ambiguity, and champion the product's value.
• Go-to-Market & Delivery: Coordinate the end-to-end delivery of complex features, formulating go-to-market plans and detailed change management strategies for internal teams and external partners to drive smooth adoption.
• Product Advocacy: Act as an advocate for the team's customers and stakeholders, representing the team in strategic discussions and keeping the wider business informed of progress, challenges, and opportunities.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree.
• At least 4 years of experience as a Product Manager (or similar role) with a focus on developing high-scale services, B2B platforms, API platforms, or internal enterprise tooling.
• Able to understand complex technical problems and translate these into easy-to-understand language for non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong affinity with technology; previous hands-on experience as an engineer or working closely with APIs and platform development, is highly desirable.
• An analytical orientation and strong problem-solving skills, demonstrated by the ability to structure issues, analyze alternative solutions, and formulate meaningful business metrics.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, collaboration, and influencing skills.
• A go-getter who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and dive into a project to achieve success by problem-solving.
• Experience managing the full product lifecycle from ideation and design to documentation, release, and support.
• Fluent in the English language both spoken and written.

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.