Data Governance Technical Product Manager (For Independent contractors)

At Booking.com, data drives our decisions. Technology is at our core. And innovation is everywhere. But our company is more than datasets, and lines of code. 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.

Our department mission is to radically accelerate innovation across all data, analytics & Machine Learning teams by providing a self-service, end-to-end platform, enabling the creation of connected, and repeatable, machine learning and analytics solutions. In the team you would join - ‘Data Analytics Engineering’, we envision and set product direction for Data Analytics and investments powering the world’s largest online accommodation reservations website.

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 a way to roll out a company wide Data Governance, Data Stewardship program, and a Data Catalog using Collibra products. The Data Management Tools team will provide a Collibra-based service, which would enable management of Data Stewards organization, global Data Domain structure, Data Glossary and Data Asset library. Integrated with internal DMLP services, it needs to become a part of the holistic ecosystem by implementing Collibra workflows and configuration to provide seamless user journeys for all kinds of the data platform users.

Your impact

• Be 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.

• Empower and collaborate with your team to unlock their full potential.

• Thrive to achieve optimal implementation of changes made to the product.

• You take full end-to-end responsibility for your product.

• Develop and own the long-term product vision and inspire your teams and Product Managers to achieve the vision by sharing your message effectively.

• Identify platform opportunities and establish a strategy and roadmap to make the vision a reality.

• Support Product Managers in translating customer insights, company direction, industry developments into teams’ long- and short-term priorities.

• 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.

• Working on consolidating physical source meta-data via tools like Collibra EDGE

• 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 new Data Catalog capabilities

• 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

Who you are

• As a Senior Data Product Manager in EDM, you are a technical subject-matter expert that bridges the various corners of the Data Management 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 are being made within the platform. Your knowledge of Data Management together with the Booking community.

• 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.

• 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.

Your experience

• Ideal candidates will have some combination of the following:

• 4+ 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 running A/B tests (or exposure to A/B testing concepts)

• Experience making data-driven decisions

• Experience with web analytics software such as Google Analytics is a plus

• Previous involvement with high traffic (50,000+ visitors per day), preferably E-commerce sites is a plus

• Experience working with Collibra or other equivalent vendor is a plus

• Experience with stakeholder management (finance, budgeting, team management, recruitment, external customers).

• Strong teamwork and collaboration skills are essential.