Senior Product Manager- Data Governance Platform

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

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.

Role Description:

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 B.com and the ongoing industry developments to ensure the right technology investments and user experiences are being made within the platform.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

You will serve as the voice of the customer and driving force behind product innovation; from in-depth product, understanding to feature development of new Data Governance capabilities.

• Identify customer's behaviors and needs through research and analysis.
• Take full ownership of the product, the prioritization of new features, and enhancements to existing features.
• Work closely with key stakeholders to understand user needs with data, identify gaps in our offerings and develop product requirements.
• Because your opinion is data-driven, you will define key business and success metrics, track them, and improve upon them.
• Benchmark our platform infrastructure against industry standards and competitors for cost, innovation, and operational excellence.
• Drive the customer experience, continually raising the bar on quality, functionality, and usability.
• Create and maintain producer / consumer / data steward workflows
• Create and maintain data domain and data asset workflows
• Configure new functionalities in Collibra
• Research new Collibra capabilities to be deployed.
• Develop Collibra dashboards and reports
• Develop 3rd party integrations with Collibra
• Administration of the service
• Preparing documentation
• Preparing and conducting trainings
• Customer support and operations

• 6+ years of product management experience
• Experience in the data domain and platform product management
• Experience with public Data Cloud offerings (AWS and GCP)
• A proven track-record of developing products that are powered by data
• Good knowledge of data science / analytics techniques
• Experience working with Collibra or other equivalent vendor is a plus
• Experience with complex stakeholders (legal, privacy, security, finance, budgeting, team management, recruitment, external customers) is absolutely critical.
• 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.
• Open-minded team player with excellent communication skills.
• 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. Open to diversity in all shapes and sizes.

• 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

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