Technical Product Manager

ey Responsibilities

• Set a long-term vision and multi-year roadmap for SQL Resilience and Recovery platforms, encompassing MySQL, AWS RDS/Aurora, and related services, with a focus on operational excellence, data durability, and recovery readiness.

• Drive cross-organizational alignment on resilience strategy and disaster recovery priorities, influencing senior stakeholders and engineering leaders across Infrastructure, Security, and Product teams.

• Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver scalable, automated, and verifiable backup, restore, and archival solutions that meet Booking’s high standards for availability and data protection.

• Define and monitor success metrics such as RPO/RTO performance, restore reliability, and backup coverage, using data-driven insights to guide prioritization and investment decisions.

• Mentor and support other Product Managers and technical leads in adopting resilience-first design principles and best practices for database reliability.

• Champion the integration of Backup/Restore, Disaster Recovery, and Archive SQL services into broader Booking.com data platforms, enabling teams to build confidently on a robust and recoverable data foundation.

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Security, Compliance, and Cloud Platform teams to manage risk, optimize operational spend, and ensure adherence to data governance, privacy, and retention policies.

 

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties:

• You have experience managing technical products, such as infrastructure services and/or internal tooling, both on Cloud and On-Premise

• You define vision and strategy based on real customer needs, basing decisions on facts rather than opinions

• You possess excellent communication skills and use them alongside data to manage a complex range of stakeholders and users

• You're self-motivated and able to navigate ambiguity and complexity at scale within a matrix organization

• You work closely with engineering teams to design and deliver your product roadmap

• You collaborate with other Product Managers at Booking to drive adoption of our services and ensure they deliver value to users

• You define criteria for successful integrations with other services and drive execution

• You work with cross-functional teams to drive business impact

• You value agile development processes and seek constant improvements

 

Role Qualifications and Requirements:

• 5+ years of product management experience delivering technical, platform, or infrastructure products, ideally in database, cloud, or data resilience domains.

• Proven ability to define a clear product vision and roadmap grounded in real customer needs and measurable outcomes.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to influence across diverse technical and non-technical stakeholders and build trusted relationships across teams and geographies.

• Demonstrated experience collaborating with engineering to design and deliver large-scale, reliable, and high-availability systems, both on Cloud (AWS) and On-Premise.

• Skilled at managing complexity and ambiguity in a matrix environment while driving alignment and business impact.

• Analytical mindset with the ability to use data to inform decisions, measure success, and prioritize effectively.

• Experience in end-to-end solution delivery, from discovery to implementation and adoption, with a focus on quality, resilience, and continuous improvement.

• Familiarity with MySQL, cloud database technologies (e.g. AWS RDS/Aurora), and disaster recovery or backup systems is a strong plus.

• Fluency in English, both spoken and written; Computer Science or related technical background is a plus.