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. 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.

Booking.com core values

• Think customer first
• Succeed together
• Own It
• Learn Forever
• Do the Right Thing

About the team.

The role sits within our Cloud Engineering team, which is a part of Core Platforms, in the Central Tech Business Unit at Booking.com. Cloud Engineering provides the capabilities that enables the Booking.com tech community to build and run world-leading cloud native applications for the online travel market and deliver the company strategy of the Connected Trip.

The Senior Technical Product Manager role at Booking.com is the lead on delivering cost value for our services architected in Public Cloud, which in turn enables teams to continually and sustainably deliver value to our customers. The role will own all aspects of the Cloud cost lifecycle and foster into the overall company strategy and architectural direction for optimising and delivering services. You will work closely with leadership and engineering from across the company to understand their cost focus, assisting them with optimisations and supporting decision making; ensuring the customer is at the center of everything.

Responsibilities :

• Own and drive the cloud forecasting, budgeting and reporting lifecycle.
• Constantly connect with stakeholders, driving FinOps cultural change throughout the organisation.
• Translate the cloud strategy into cost optimisation goals and critical metrics
• Collaborate with the FinOps function to develop cost optimisations and integrate into roadmaps for Product Teams.
• Serve as a point of escalation, review and approval for key issues.
• Meet with Budget Owners within Product Teams to coordinate spending limits and forecasting of future budgets.
• Build and sustain relationships with key partners; bring together expertise across the business to cater towards Booking’s strategic objectives

Your skills & Experience :

• Validated experience of being responsible for the Cloud cost lifecycle for an Enterprise business.
• Hands on experience in optimising AWS and GCP Cloud spend.
• Experience and solid understanding of native cloud cost management tooling and/or third-party cloud management or optimization platforms (e.g. AWS Cost explorer, Cloudhealth, Apptio/Cloudability, etc.)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Stakeholder management and prioritization experience.
• Ability to formulate multiple solutions to problems and drive consensus.
• Ability to tell a story with data.
• Proficient in the English language both spoken and written.
• Nice to have: FinOps Certified Cloud Practitioner certification

B.Offered :

• Contributing to a high scale, sophisticated, world outstanding 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 use technical expertise, leadership capabilities and ambitious spirit.
• Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
• Technical, behavioural 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

Booking.com is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to build an environment that allows everyone to thrive.