Senior Product Manager- Data Governance Platform

Role Description

About the role

As a Senior Technical Product Manager, you are a technical subject-matter expert that bridges the various corners of the data governance engineering world to shape the direction of our Data Governance Platform, alongside your team. You enjoy leveraging an understanding of Data Governance projects actively developed at Booking.com and the ongoing industry developments to ensure the right technology investments and user experiences are being made within the platform.

The Senior Product Manager will be responsible for engaging with a heterogeneous governance and data (analytics, ML and AI) community, working with cross-functional stakeholders, and building a short- and medium-term outcomes-driven roadmap.

Within the Data Governance Platform are a suite of products that include metadata collection, governance workflows, and reporting. We work with data at a very large scale – complex relationships, high volume, and wide-ranging use cases.

About the team

The Data and Machine Learning department (DMLP) is on a mission to radically accelerate innovation across all data, analytics & machine learning teams by providing a self-service, end-to-end data platform. We’re on the way to rolling out company wide Data Governance, Data Stewardship program, and a Data Catalog – using a range of products from Collibra to homegrown services. The Data Governance Platform team builds metadata collection middleware, Collibra-based workflows for EU AI Act, DMA and other compliance and regulatory use cases; and reporting on governance adoption. This role is at the critical intersection of data governance, regulatory efforts and platform product management.

Key job responsibilities and duties

You will serve as the voice of the platform and the customer and driving force behind data governance requirement scoping and implementation; from in-depth product understanding to feature development of new Data Governance capabilities.

• Work closely with key data governance stakeholders to understand governance and compliance requirements and translate them into product capability requirements and a roadmap.
• Drive the customer experience, continually raising the bar on quality, functionality, and usability.
• Take full ownership of the product, the prioritization of new features, and enhancements to existing features.
• Be the product owner of a data platform that must be able to scale to support a wide range of data governance workflows – for data producers, consumers, and data stewards that participate in enterprise-wide data domains and cross-disciplinary data/AI/ML assets.
• Develop a roadmap for our data governance platform built on Collibra for metadata collection, dashboards and reports, 3rd party integrations with Collibra, and documentation.
• Work with data governance specialists to prepare and conduct trainings, provide customer support and operational support.
• Build a network within a complex enterprise with your key users to understand their behaviors and needs.
• Empower and collaborate with your team to unlock their full potential.
• Define key product and success metrics, track them, and improve upon them.
• Benchmark the platform infrastructure against industry standards and competitors for cost, innovation, and operational excellence.

Customers of your data governance products come from all functions in the business – data governance specialists, product managers, data crafts, and senior leaders.

Role qualifications and requirements

Ideal candidates will have some combination of the following:

• 6+ years of product management experience in the data domain and platform product management.
• Open-minded team player with excellent communication skills for high-complexity, high-risk enterprise projects.
• Experience working with Collibra or other equivalent vendor is a plus.
• Experience with complex stakeholders management (legal, privacy, security, finance, budgeting, team management, recruitment, external customers) is absolutely critical.
• Impeccable delivery skills – prioritization, planning, problem scoping.
• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential.
• User-focused individual who keeps the customer at the heart of everything they do, while having strong commercial awareness.
• Data-driven. Base your decisions on facts rather than opinions.
• A go-getter who isn’t afraid to get their hands dirty and dives into a project to achieve success by problem solving.
• Passionate about data & machine learning and building a platform that can be leveraged by the whole company. Constantly looking for ways to improve and streamline the capabilities.
• Agile and innovative with the tenacity to thrive in a constantly changing environment.
• Self-motivated and results-driven with a take charge attitude to manage the full development cycle of a product.
• Friendly, knowledgeable, and motivational to others.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance

Booking.com’s Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• 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

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.