Senior Technical Product Manager

Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) is the world leader in online travel and related services, provided to customers and partners in over 220 countries and territories through six primary consumer-facing brands - Booking.com, KAYAK, Priceline, Agoda.com, Rentalcars.com, and OpenTable. The mission of Booking Holdings is to make it easier for everyone to experience the world. During 2019, the Company had consolidated revenues and net income of $15.1 billion and $4.9 billion, respectively, and a current market value of approximately $90 billion.

Booking Holdings Bangalore is a Center of Excellence based in Bangalore, India and a legal entity of Booking Holdings Inc. The Center was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of the Booking Holdings brands and business units.

We’re a truly global e-commerce company, with business operations in nearly every country and city on the planet. And we want to make it easy for everyone, anywhere in the world, to pay for their travel or do business with our platform - whenever and however it’s convenient for them.

Role Description

We are seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to join our Metrics team in the Experimentation Platform department. The Metrics Team provides the foundational platform for the company’s experimentation ecosystem, enabling product teams to self-sufficiently create, compute, and manage high-quality metrics. We define best practices, maintain scalable pipelines, and deliver tools for metric creation and governance. Ultimately, our work empowers the entire organization to make faster, trustworthy, and data-driven decisions through a robust and extensible framework.

As a Senior Product Manager in the Metrics Team, you will drive the strategy and execution of products that ensure experimentation metrics are statistically rigorous, reliable, and accessible across the company. You will partner with engineers, data scientists, and experimenters to embed advanced methodologies, recommend appropriate metrics, and implement governance practices that safeguard decision-making. Your work will directly shape how teams trust, interpret, and act upon metrics, enabling data-driven decisions at scale.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Own the Metrics Ecosystem Strategy: Develop and champion a long-term product vision and roadmap for the experimentation metrics platform, ensuring it meets the companys evolving needs for scale and statistical rigor.
• Lead Governance & Best Practices: Define and drive the adoption of a unified framework for the entire metric lifecycle, from creation and metadata management to deprecation, ensuring trust and consistency across the organization.
• Guide Experimenters: Provide recommendations to experimenters on selecting appropriate, high-quality metrics that ensure meaningful and trustworthy results.
• Harm Protection Governance: Define and enforce governance practices that safeguard against harmful or misleading metric use in experimentation.
• Develop Enabling Tools: Guide the development of self-service tools, APIs, and infrastructure that empower product teams to create, manage, and analyze their own metrics with confidence and ease.
• Drive Technical Excellence: Partner with engineering and data science to design and deliver robust, scalable data pipelines and systems that form the backbone of our experimentation results.
• Ensure Statistical Integrity: Be the product authority on statistical methods, ensuring results are accurate, reproducible, and easy to interpret.
• Champion Data Accessibility: Ensure metric data and experiment results are accessible, actionable, and integrated into downstream workflows.
• Deliver Critical Projects: Navigate complexity and ambiguity to deliver business-critical platform improvements that enhance the reliability and extensibility of our experimentation capabilities.
  
  
  

Role Qualifications And Requirements

• Experience: Proven track record (6+ years) in Product Management, with experience working on complex platforms / data products (e.g., Experimentation, Machine learning platforms).
• Experimentation Fluency: Deep understanding of experimentation frameworks and statistical methods with the ability to define, align, and drive adoption of company-wide best practices.
• Statistical Methods: Understanding of advanced experimentation methodologies (e.g., sequential testing, quantile testing, ratio metrics, heterogeneous treatment effects) and ability to partner with data scientists to integrate these into scalable tools.
• Experimenter Enablement: Experience working directly with product teams and experimenters to guide metric selection, communicate governance policies, and ensure trust in experimentation outcomes.
• Quantitative and Analytical Skills: Strong quantitative and analytical skills with the ability to translate complex statistical and data concepts into clear product requirements and actionable insights.
• Communication & Stakeholder Skills: Proven ability to engage, align, and influence stakeholders at all levels and disciplines, from experimenters to C-level, communicating complex data and technical concepts in a clear and actionable way.
• Technical Fluency: Comfortable working with engineering teams on APIs, data pipelines, and scalable computation systems, with the ability to balance technical constraints with business needs.
• Product Strategy: Skilled in defining product vision and strategy, setting objectives, and driving alignment across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Delivery Excellence: Demonstrated ability to manage roadmaps, prioritize complex dependencies, and deliver high-quality products that scale.
• Leadership: Ability to work independently, shape long-term product direction, and coach or mentor other PMs when needed.
• Data Science Background: Prior hands-on experience in data science or statistics roles is preferred.
• Industry Collaboration & Thought Leadership: Experience engaging with the wider industry through publishing articles, sharing best practices, or bringing industry experts together is preferred.
  
  
  

Through the Booking Holdings brands, we help our customers reach all corners of the earth. Our ability to provide great service rests on how well we understand our diverse customer base, which is why having a diverse team is so important to us. We bring together employees from all walks of life and we are proud to provide the kind of inclusive environment that stimulates innovation, creativity and collaboration.

EEO Statement:

Booking Holdings is an equal opportunity employer in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We ensure equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without discrimination or harassment based on race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, or local law.

Booking Holdings also extends this policy to every phase of the employment process including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, placement, transfer, training and development, position elimination, restructure, promotion, compensation, benefits, layoffs, termination, and all other conditions or privileges of employment. Booking Holdings and its Affiliated Companies are Equal Employment Opportunity employers and welcome all job seekers including individuals with disabilities and veterans with disabilities. If you have a disability and believe you need reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or apply for a position, please email reasonableaccommodation@bookingholdings.com with your request. M/F/V/D/SO

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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.

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