Technical Product Manager - Private Cloud - Bangalore
Role Description:
Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.
Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center 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 the Booking Holdings brands and business units.
Product Manager - Private Cloud
At Booking.com we make it easier for everyone to experience the world. Our mission is to create transformative, innovative, and personalized travel experiences for millions of customers all across the world. We want customers to have an amazing experience wherever and whenever they choose: mobile, web, and through partners and 3rd parties.
Booking.com is looking for a Product Manager to join the Private Cloud group in our Core Platforms department.
About the Private Cloud
To support the business innovate faster while still remaining secure, reliable and cost efficient, we are building and continuously operating an ecosystem of connected cloud capabilities, and are on a multi-year journey to migrate all of Booking’s workloads to the cloud.
As part of this connected cloud ecosystem, the Booking Private Cloud provides a set of centrally-managed cloud platforms for running modern distributed applications in an agile cost efficient manner. These platform instances span the public cloud infrastructure (AWS) and Booking datacenters (“on-premises”).
Our goal is to provide a first class user experience to our internal customers (our large developer community) while solving for the challenges that come at our scale - interoperability, security, compliance and reliability.
About the role
The Private Cloud portfolio is divided into multiple product areas. The Product Manager will be responsible for one (or more) of the Private Cloud product areas and will be expected to build products/capabilities that drive business value by solving real customer problems.This is an individual contributor role without people management responsibilities. The Product Manager is expected to lead by influence and partner closely with the Engineering Manager(s) to drive product delivery.
What you’ll be doing:
- Be accountable for the business outcomes of your product(s) - own the product vision, strategy, success criteria and roadmap for your product area(s). Manage expectations with the stakeholders of your product(s).
- Build the right thing - work closely with (internal) customers and other stakeholders to identify the right problems to solve and define product requirements consistent with business objectives. Be the primary point of contact and the decision maker for your product’s feature prioritization.
- Build the thing right - Ensure that the technical solutions meet functional and non-functional requirements. You will not be responsible for the detailed implementation choices. However, you should be able to influence and support important architectural decisions from a product perspective, and eventually justify your product’s architecture to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Partner closely with your engineering counterparts to drive product planning and delivery. Ensure that the engineering team’s planned work is consistent with the product direction.
- Be the voice of your product(s) - advocate and represent your product(s) within Booking.com.
What you’ll bring:
- 4+ years of relevant experience managing products in a technical area.
- Critical thinking and problem solving - ability to analyze and creatively solve complex and ambiguous problems.
- Excellent communication skills - ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences using a variety of mediums (verbal, written, presentation).
- Tech fluency - ability to bridge business and technology. You should be able to derive requirements/constraints for technical solutions from business requirements/constraints. Conversely, you should be able to drive business value from tech insights.
- Data fluency - ability to drive data-informed decision making. You should know what type of data to collect, how to collect it and have a good understanding of how to combine qualitative and quantitative insights
- Domain knowledge - good understanding of modern cloud computing concepts such as container orchestration (Kubernetes), public cloud capabilities (especially AWS), infrastructure as code and service mesh. Prior involvement with tech modernization and/or cloud transformation initiatives is a plus.
EEO Statement:
Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.
Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment.Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO