Product Manager - Payment Modernization, FinTech

About us: 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 can empower everyone to experience the world.

FinTech business unit - with teams in Amsterdam, Bangalore, London and Shanghai - develops new products and drives innovation to help us continue removing financial friction from the travel process. That makes buying and selling travel-related products and services simpler for both travelers and partners.

Payments are a complex, competitive, and exciting industry. As a Product Manager in Partner Payments, you will be working together with engineering, design and data science teams on creating payments solutions that help our partners grow their business. The scope is massive: 50+ countries, hundreds of thousands of partners, and billions of dollars in payments volume.

In this role, you will be leading the Payment Modernization team, whose goal is to lead and deliver modernization projects that will allow our internal platforms to scale and reduce the time to market for new products.

Role Overview

• Lead the planning and delivery of large scale modernization projects
• Leverage understanding of how payments works - within and outside Booking - in order to drive the discovery, planning and delivery of platform functions that enable faster and more reliable payments to our partners..
• Closely work with internal technical teams to ensure a comprehensive roadmap of features, prioritize them by impact and scale and drive the delivery.
• Define KPIs for the product, track performance metrics, and iterate based on teams feedback

• A track record for shipping large-scale, successful software platform products
• Track record of handling a variety of external stakeholders
• 6+ years of product management experience
• Experience in payments or financial products at a global tech company
• Ability to communicate effectively across all levels of the organization
• Proficiency in product discovery and product delivery techniques;
• Familiarity with the software development lifecycle, and basic technical understanding of how large-scale systems are built.

• Experience leading and running platform products
• Expertise in defining and leading large scale refactoring projects
• Engineering experience

• 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
• Need more flexibility in your work week? We are happy to consider part-time, and reduced working week opportunities* (min. 32 hours per week, subject to terms and conditions)

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• This role does not come with relocation assistance