Technical Product Manager

Role Description: At Booking.com, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world by creating 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. Across our offices worldwide, we continue to innovate by solving some of the most complex challenges in travel technology. With strategic long-term investments into what we believe the future of travel can be, we are opening up new career opportunities that will have a strong impact on our mission. About Team To support the business with a modern and optimised production infrastructure, the Cloud and Platform Ecosystems group is building and continuously operating an ecosystem of cloud and platform capabilities, and are on a multi-year journey to migrate all of Booking’s workloads to the cloud. We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our group at our Bangalore (Bengaluru) campus. About the role The Product Manager will be accountable for the business outcomes of one or more product areas within our IT Disaster Recovery initiative. The initial scope will be to build a single pane of glass for our Backup and Recovery capabilities. 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 prioritisation. - 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 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 professional experience. - Prior experience in a technical role, such as platform engineer or software developer, is a must. Prior experience as a product manager is a plus but not mandatory. - You should be able to lead a data modeling project with user facing tooling and APIs as well as dashboards. - You should have a good understanding of backup and recovery concepts such as RPO, RTO, retention periods, and immutability. - 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 make data-informed decisions. You should know what type of data to collect and have a good understanding of how to combine qualitative and quantitative insights - Domain knowledge - good understanding of modern cloud computing concepts. Prior involvement with tech modernization and/or cloud transformation initiatives is a plus. - Linux fluency - solid understanding of workload needs and requirements when running on the Linux operating system and ecosystem