Senior Product Manager (For independent contractors)

Senior Product Manager: Connected Trip – Trip Planning Save

Mission: Marketplace Intent

The Role

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Connected Trip - Trip Planning Mission for a high-visibility, 8-month project. The candidate will serve as a primary architect of our evolution into a trip-centric model.

This role manages significant organizational complexity, overseeing the Wishlist experience and Maps scope. The candidate will lead the charge on new AI-powered customer experiences, driving a strategy that helps users save and organize travel inspiration across the entire Booking.com ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Drive Strategy: Own and set the 1-year vision for the Wishlist and Maps scope, ensuring alignment with the broader Track strategy.

  
  

• NPD Leadership: Operate in a fast-paced, "New Product Development" style environment, taking complex AI products from 0 to 1.

  
  

• Marketplace Intent: Stay ahead of evolving customer needs to lead the charge on how users organize travel inspiration.

  
  

• Define Outcomes: Be a key contributor to the overall trip planning mission goals - "more travellers planning more of their trips with Booking and being happy about it" and define and drive specific goals for Maps and Wishlist usage

Product Delivery

• Mission-Level Execution: Lead bi-weekly mission sprints, managing a roadmap of high technical and organizational complexity.

  
  

• Risk Management: Identify dependencies across multiple areas/teams early-on, ensuring the roadmap stays on track during this critical 8-month window.

  
  

• Tactical Excellence: Partner with your team to establish delivery methodologies (Scrum/Kanban) that optimize ROI.

Data Fluency & Customer Insight

• Advanced Analytics: Define primary, supporting, and counter-metrics for trip-planning features. Apply sophisticated experimentation techniques to AI-powered features.

  
  

• Insight Distillation: Use a mix of qualitative (interviews/surveys) and quantitative data to uncover unmet user needs in the trip-planning journey.

  
  

• Research Leadership: Develop research briefs in collaboration with Data Science and Insights teams to tackle complex questions about user intent.

Stakeholder Management & Tech Fluency

• High Visibility: Manage expectations and provide clear, concise updates up to the Director level (and occasionally LT).

  
  

• Cross-Vertical Alignment: Act as a fluent spokesperson for the Mission, generating alignment across department borders.

  
  

• Technical Partnership: Partner with Engineering Managers to advocate for the customer in technical tradeoff decisions, ensuring solutions are scoped for long-term business needs.

Who You Are

• Independent Navigator: You are a well-connected SPM who knows how to navigate the Booking.com ecosystem to unblock teams and get things done.

  
  

• Thrives in Ambiguity: You enjoy the "blank canvas" of NPD and can create order from complex, shifting requirements.

  
  

• Strategic Thinker: You have 5–8 years of experience and a proven track record of managing larger, complex products that achieve significant business impact.

  
  

• Community Minded: You are an active contributor to the PM craft (mentoring, interviewing, or sharing learnings) even while operating in a high-intensity rotation.