Technical Product Manager

Booking.com; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Commuting allowance

Learning platforms

Headspace access

Genius Level 3 discounts

Job summary

Booking.com is seeking a Technical Product Manager for the Customer Service Platform to own and evolve foundational platform capabilities enabling global-scale support operations. You will drive cross-functional collaboration across product, engineering, architecture, and external partners to deliver scalable, reliable platform services.

The role is individual contributor with significant cross-functional influence, focusing on modernising the customer service landscape and balancing technical

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years in technical Product Management, managing large scale technical/platform products.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills across levels.
• Excellent prioritisation under time-critical situations balancing customer and business needs.
• Analytical orientation with problem-solving and structured reasoning.
• Team player with bottom-up ideation.
• Experience with third-party enterprise platforms and vendor management is an advantage.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the Platform Enablement team’s product strategy, roadmap, and end-to-end delivery.
• Align and adapt the team’s roadmap to the broader tech modernisation, company strategy, and architecture.
• Define, track, and report clear product and engineering metrics to transparently communicate impact to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Improve platform reliability, availability, resilience and performance so the ecosystem can operate dependably at global scale.
• Translate business and technical needs into a prioritised, technically grounded backlog that maximises impact.
• Engage stakeholders across CS and other business units to implement changes, ensure operationalisation and measure impact.
• Partner with engineers, data engineering, product teams and external third-party vendors to shape solutions and ship high-quality, scalable capabilities, and performance stability.

Skills

Technical Product Management

Roadmap management

Stakeholder management

Technical storytelling

Prioritisation

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Vendor management (advantage)

Job description

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 make. The journeys you take. The sights you see. And the food you sample. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager to join our Customer Service Platform team. In this role, you will own and evolve the foundational platform capabilities that power Customer Service operations at global scale, with a particular focus on our third‑party agent desktop experiences and shared platform services.

Customer Service interactions are increasingly complex, time‑sensitive and multi‑step, often spanning several Booking.com products and services. You will help transform a fragmented tooling landscape into a unified, reliable and scalable platform that enables support teams to deliver fast, consistent and high‑quality service experiences.

You will operate at the centre of a multi‑year transformation to modernise our Customer Service landscape. Working across product, engineering, architecture, operations, security, data and external partners, you will ensure architectural coherence, capability reuse, operational stability and sustainable scaling.

This is an individual contributor role with significant cross‑functional influence and no direct people‑management responsibility.

Key Job Responsibilities And Duties

• Own and lead the Platform Enablement team’s product strategy, roadmap, and end‑to‑end delivery.
• Align and adapt the team’s roadmap to the broader tech modernisation, company strategy, and architecture.
• Define, track, and report clear product and engineering metrics to transparently communicate impact to stakeholders and senior leadership.
• Improve platform reliability, availability, resilience and performance so the ecosystem can operate dependably at global scale.
• Translate business and technical needs into a prioritised, technically grounded backlog that maximises impact.
• Engage stakeholders across CS and other business units to implement changes, ensure operationalisation and measure impact.
• Partner with engineers, data engineering, product teams and external third‑party vendors to shape solutions and ship high‑quality, scalable capabilities, and performance stability.

Role Qualifications And Requirements

• Experience: Minimum 3 years in technical Product Management, having managed large scale technical / platform products.
• Proven ability to manage technical roadmaps, address technical debt and balance short‑term delivery with long‑term platform and product health.
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts as a clear and compelling narrative to non technical stakeholders
• Effective communication and stakeholder management skills. Clearly communicate with business and technical stakeholders at all levels.
• Strong product judgement and the ability to balance customer, business and technical needs.
• Excellent prioritisation skills in time‑critical situations while balancing customer & business needs.
• An analytical orientation and strong problem‑solving skills demonstrated by the ability to structure issues and analyse alternative solutions.
• Team player with a bottom‑up ideation process
• Experience with third‑party enterprise platforms and vendor management is an advantage.

Benefits & Perks: Global Impact, Personal Relevance

• Annual paid time off and generous paid leave scheme including: parental (22-weeks paid leave), grandparent, bereavement, and care leave
• Hybrid working including flexible working arrangements, working from home furniture and ergonomic support, and up to 20 days per year working from abroad (home country)
• A beautiful sustainable HQ Campus in Amsterdam, that offers on‑site meals, coffee, and snacks, multi-faith and breastfeeding rooms at the office
• Commuting allowance and bike reimbursement scheme
• Discounts & Wallet credits to spend on our products, upgrade to Booking.com Genius Level 3, and friends & family Booking.com discount vouchers
• Free access to online learning platforms, development and mentorship programs
• Global Employee Assistance Program, free Headspace membership

DEI: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Booking.com

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) 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 create a unique workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone."

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable adjustments to participate in the interview process. Please contact us to request adjustments.

Career Development Opportunities

• Bi‑annual performance conversations, company‑wide mentoring program, and internal development opportunities
• Unlimited access to online learning platforms: Udemy, Coursera, LinkedIn learning, O'reilly

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.

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.