Senior Product Owner - Upper Funnel

BOOKING.COM is looking for a Senior Product Owner with an excellent E-commerce background to own and develop the platform's upper funnel strategy. This is an exciting and challenging role that touches many parts of the business, including Demand, Front End and Content. It offers an opportunity to add significant value to one of the world's most successful E-commerce platforms. Booking.com is a highly transactional site, but we also like to find other ways of building engagement with our users, as well as offering them inspiration and potentially capturing new forms of traffic - which is the main responsibility of the position.

This role is ideal for someone who likes to create from scratch and has an entrepreneurial spirit. You will work with a range of stakeholders to develop and execute an upper funnel strategy for Booking.com. You will set measures for success for an upper funnel strategy and encourage cross-departmental communication and cooperation on this project.

You will have extensive knowledge and experience in analysing online consumer behavior, the travel market and online marketing. You will be self-motivated, approachable, adaptable and have excellent communication skills (both written and verbal). You are resourceful and able to bring fresh and executable ideas to the table.

We are looking for an individual with multi-year experience in the E-commerce arena and working for an international company.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Work with a range of stakeholders (FE teams, Content, Demand) to develop and execute an upper funnel strategy for Booking.com
- Ability to think big and set measures for success for an upper funnel strategy and set the milestones for rolling out the strategy
- Develop new methods of obtaining and measuring the performance of upper funnel strategies and related testing
- Act as a point of contact for various upper funnel and related efforts across the company, encouraging cross-departmental communication and cooperation
- Research and analyze existing data, in cooperation with various IT teams and the Analytics team to validate and evaluate ideas
- Devise, with other Product Owners, relevant A/B testing and experimentation on the Front End to measure impact
- Liaise with developers, other (Senior) Product Owners in the company, analysts, and other departments to make sure projects are implemented successfully and their impact on other areas of the business is understood

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:

- Minimum 5 years' experience in the online travel sector (E-commerce or media site), or other relevant online sector
- An entrepreneurial mindset that can seek out and achieve new opportunities
- Experience in a large, international company
- A proven ability to generate traffic and stimulate engagement in this area
- Set up, manage and grow a small team, including developers, and upscale fast as necessary
- Translate business needs and company/department strategy into projects, and prioritize them according to business value
- Proficient in data manipulation and analysis
- Have a strategic insight, while being highly analytical, pragmatic and data-driven
- Experience using both qualitative and quantitative methodologies for project design and analysis
- Results focused and proactive
- Ability to multi-task and prioritize workflow accordingly
- Excellent communication skills for liaising with key company stakeholders including the Booking.com Leadership Team, IT teams and other Product Owners
- Experience using web analytic tools such as Google Analytics

Work at Booking There are many benefits in joining the Booking.com team. We offer a competitive salary, attractive bonus plan, 26 days of annual leave, commuting reimbursement, a pension scheme, travel perks through Booking.com, and training opportunities. In addition, we offer relocation packages and work sponsorship for worldwide candidates to join our growing IT team in Amsterdam!

You are you, We are Booking! We are a global company headquartered in the beautiful city of Amsterdam. Our culture is built around good ideas and a collaborative environment. We all share the responsibility to make our company even better. We believe that every employee can add their own unique value to the company, just by being you. We invite you to make your own mark on the company. Together we can set off on an exciting journey.