Group Product Manager - Streaming and Data Movement

Shape the Future of Data at Booking.com

About us: 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: ADS Streaming and Data Movement

The Application Data Services (ADS) organization provides world-class streaming, ingestion, and change-data-capture solutions that enable every product and infrastructure team to work with high-quality, timely data.

The Streaming & Data Movement track delivers and operates the foundational services that power real-time data processing, including:

• Streaming solutions (powered by Kafka, Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud), both on-premise and on public cloud, to our infrastructure and product development teams;
• Stream Processing Platform (powered by Apache Flink) for large-scale stream processing and event-driven applications;
• Snapshot Ingestion and Change Data Capture (CDC) for reliable, scalable, and compliant movement of data from source systems into our data ecosystem;
• Self-service APIs, developer tooling, and governance layers that ensure reliability, discoverability, and compliance at scale

We enable Booking.com to make data-driven decisions and deliver personalized traveler and partner experiences powered by high-quality, low-latency data.

Role Description

As a Group Product Manager for the Streaming & Data Movement, you will shape and execute the strategy for how data flows through Booking.com. You will lead multiple product teams responsible for the ingestion, processing, and propagation of critical business data, ensuring our data infrastructure remains scalable, cost-efficient, and compliant.

You’ll define the multi-year roadmap for streaming and ingestion products, partner with engineering and platform teams across the company, and ensure the platform enables product teams to build real-time, data-intensive applications with ease and reliability.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Influence decision-making at all levels of the company. Define product strategy and a multi-year roadmap for Streaming (& Flink) and Ingestion platforms, including Snapshot Ingestion and Change Data Capture, balancing innovation with resilience, cost efficiency, and compliance.
• Lead a team of Product Managers and partner closely with engineering, security, and compliance teams to deliver robust infrastructure and services.
• Own a suite of tooling, integrations and IaC templates that enable scalability, reliability, and governance for data at Booking.com.
• Drive modernisation through adoption and enablement of cloud services, ensuring smooth migration journeys and establishing a “shift left” approach to governance and quality.
• Translate business and developer needs into product initiatives, using qualitative insights, quantitative data, and stakeholder feedback.
• Evangelize modern data practices across Booking.com, ensuring teams understand how to best leverage ADS services.
• Define clear success metrics and track them regularly to ensure services are reliable, cost-effective, and meeting customer needs.
• Collaborate across departments to align data infrastructure with broader company priorities.
• Coach and grow Product Managers, ensuring excellence in product craft and leadership across your domain.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 6 - 9 years of directly applicable internet product management experience.
• Bachelor's degree required. Master's in a relevant field is highly desired.
• Minimum of 2 - 3 years of successfully managing and mentoring a team of product managers as direct reports.
• Strong experience in data streaming, cloud platforms, or infrastructure services at scale (Kafka, Flink, CDC, Debezium, Confluent Cloud, etc.).
• Experience managing various types of resources, making trade-offs and prioritizing as if managing your own business.
• Creativity and curiosity – a creative problem solver with a deep curiosity about our business and product.
• Excellent communication skills – able to communicate efficiently both strategic vision and specific details to various stakeholders, from senior leadership to individual project members. Able to write clear and concise product requirements, status updates and product results.
• Strong analytical skills – able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and recommend effective action plans to resolve issues.
• Strong organizational and project management skills – responsible for ensuring multiple projects are completed in an appropriate and timely manner. Experience with agile methodologies is highly preferred.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment with multiple responsibilities.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential.

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
• Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
• 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

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.