Senior Product Manager

Senior Product Manager

Role Description

As a Senior Product Manager for Flights Finance Operations, you will lead the early-stage discovery, strategy, and zero-to-one execution for our global flight settlement and reconciliation capabilities. You will bridge complex aviation clearinghouse and settlement requirements with Booking.com's centralized finance infrastructure, shaping the target operating model and driving technical design for flows of funds. Operating in a highly collaborative and matrixed environment, you will unify legacy processes with scalable future-state systems to power our growing Flights platform.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• Own the 18-month product strategy and team objectives, converting complex aviation finance workflows into a clear technical blueprint for engineering teams.
• Lead early-stage zero-to-one discovery and end-to-end design for global flight financial reconciliation, settlement, and fund-flow systems.
• Manage product delivery, team backlog prioritization, and risk mitigation while ensuring strict adherence to baseline non-functional requirements (financial, legal, regulatory, security, and privacy).
• Collaborate with enterprise Finance teams (Treasury, Tax, General Ledger) and key cross-functional stakeholders to align on strategic priorities and resolve dependencies.
• Establish product success metrics, design experimentations, and apply advanced data analytics to guide strategy and prioritization decisions.
• Drive customer and operational insight synthesis, transforming system usage data, logs, and feedback into clear problem statements and scalable solutions.

Qualifications & Skills:

• Product Craft

Experience

• 3–5 years of dedicated product management experience with a proven track record of driving complex technical capabilities.
• Aviation FinTech Background: Hands-on product experience in financial operations within travel distribution (e.g., major global OTA, airline distribution finance, GDS like Amadeus/Sabre, or flight consolidator).
• Aviation Clearinghouse Mastery: Deep, up-to-date expertise in global IATA BSP, ARC, and modern settlement frameworks (including NDC and settlement-with-order models).
• Zero-to-One Track Record: Demonstrated experience building or scaling a flight financial reconciliation ecosystem from the ground up.
• Enterprise Stakeholder Navigation: Strong ability to consult, influence, and align cross-functional teams within large-scale matrix organizations.
• Technical & Data Fluency: Proven ability to partner with Engineering/EMs on architectural trade-offs, system dependencies, non-functional requirements, and advanced data-driven experimentations.
• Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits & Perks - Global Impact, Personal Relevance: Booking.com's Total Rewards Philosophy is not only about compensation but also about benefits. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package, as well unique-to-Booking.com benefits which include:

• 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.

• Inclusion at Booking.com: Inclusion has been a core part of our company culture since day one. This ongoing journey starts with our very own employees, who represent over 140 nationalities and a wide range of ethnic and social backgrounds, genders and sexual orientations.

• Take it from our Chief People Officer, Paulo Pisano: "At Booking.com, the diversity of our people doesn't just build an outstanding workplace, it also creates a better and more inclusive travel experience for everyone. Inclusion is at the heart of everything we do. It's a place where you can make your mark and have a real impact in travel and tech."

• We ensure that colleagues with disabilities are provided the adjustments and tools they need to participate in the job application and interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

• 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, color, 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 create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.

• Pre-Employment Screening

• We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive environment.

• Note: Location is ideally Amsterdam, Netherlands, or remote-friendly within European time zones with expected monthly travel to Amsterdam.