NoSQL Senior Product Manager

Role Description

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. Through our products, partners and people, we make it easier for everyone to experience the world.

About the team:

The Application Data Services department provides world-class database and streaming solutions, both on-premise and on public cloud, to our infrastructure and product development teams. We ensure secure, reliable, and scalable transport and storage of data for our business and infrastructure services. Our data services currently cover technologies like MySQL, Cassandra, Kafka, Confluent, and Elasticsearch. We are expanding this with complementary cloud database technologies. Within this department, the NoSQL team focuses on non relational databases offering for our internal customers. Depending on whether the platform is on-premise or in the public cloud the area of responsibility covers data reliability, availability, discoverability, scalability and disaster/recovery operations and cost optimization.

Role:

As a Senior Product Manager for this role, you'll be responsible for defining and executing the strategy for non relational databases in the Booking.com portfolio. This role sits in the critical area of Cloud & Database Services, overseeing both on-premise data platforms (e.g. Cassandra) and cloud-native platform (e.g DynamoDB), as well as the suite of tooling, infrastructure as code templates and services for security, scalability, compliance and governance on top of these platforms.

This role will be instrumental in driving Booking.com’s data and modernization journey - enabling scalability, privacy, compliance, and governance while empowering teams to move faster and innovate with confidence. You will play a pivotal role in enhancing Booking.com’s non relational DB offering, understanding and correcting customer pain points, scouting the available technological landscape for alternatives (e.g. Scylla Db), and enabling the transition from on-premise to the public cloud.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you own the product vision, strategy, and adoption of Booking.com’s non relational DB platforms both on-premise and in cloud across their full lifecycle.

Your responsibilities span the following range of activities:

• Set a long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for NoSQL platforms with a focus on operational excellence, data durability, and recovery readiness.
• Drive cross-organizational alignment on NoSQL strategy and capabilities, influencing senior stakeholders and engineering leaders across Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams.
• Mentor and support other Product Managers and technical leads in understanding the capabilities and use cases for the proper use of NoSQL technologies in Booking.com.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Compliance, and Cloud Platform teams to manage risk, optimize operational spend, and ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and retention policies.

As a senior member of the product craft, you will work closely with peer product leaders to define shared standards, drive alignment, and establish meaningful KPIs that measure improvements in data reliability, trust, and risk reduction at the platform and ecosystem level.

• User-focused and outcome-driven, keeping customer and business impact at the center of decision-making
• Deeply data-driven, using evidence and metrics rather than opinions
• Comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous environments and cutting through silos
• Passionate about building scalable, enterprise-grade data platforms
• A strong communicator who can engage equally well with engineers, analysts, and senior governance stakeholders
• Proactive, hands-on, and accountable for end-to-end product outcomes
• Inclusive, collaborative, and supportive of diverse perspectives

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• 6+ years of product management experience delivering technical, platform, or infrastructure products, ideally in database, cloud, or data resilience domains.
• Proven ability to define a clear product vision and roadmap grounded in real customer needs and measurable outcomes.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders and build trusted relationships across teams and geographies.
• Experience designing or owning products related to DB monitoring, validation, SLAs, or platform reliability.
• Demonstrated experience collaborating with engineering to design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and high-availability systems, both on Cloud (AWS) and On-Premise.
• Skilled at managing complexity and ambiguity in a matrix environment while driving alignment and business impact.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to inform decisions, measure success, and prioritize effectively.
• Experience in end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery to implementation and adoption, with a focus on quality, resilience, and continuous improvement.
• Familiarity with NoSQL, database technologies (Cassandra, DynamoDb, ScyllaDB, etc.) is a strong plus.
• Fluency in English, both spoken and written; Computer Science or related technical background is a plus.
• Strong backlog management, KPI definition, and outcome tracking skills.
• Proven stakeholder management experience across engineering, analytics, and governance functions.
• Ability to adapt quickly in a fast-evolving data and AI landscape.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance:

• 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
• 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
• Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com

Pre-Employment Screening

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