Romania - Technical Program Manager

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through five-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK and OpenTable.

Role description

Your role as Technical Program Manager will be to plan and coordinate the activities around our IT Disaster Recovery plans. These enable us to learn from the systems and processes and you will be responsible for capturing these learnings and translating them into follow-up actions. Continuous improvement is the name of this game and we strive to continuously improve both the processes and management as well as our systems. You will build your network from the vast list of system owners to collaborate and work on the drill program with you.

The Technical Program Manager is responsible for the successful delivery of technology services and products through the facilitation of technical projects and management of their inter-dependencies, risks and milestone deliverables.

As a Technical Program Manager you will be working with Product Owners, Principal Developers and Managers in Technology, as well as interact with front-end developer and designer customers we deliver to. The programs will include several teams and projects within Technical Operations and you are responsible for driving efficient execution. 

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties 

Define projects; requirements gathering, write detailed functional and test specifications, coordinate efforts to scope, schedule and deploy new feature sets

Work closely with Product Managers to define the roadmap for key projects that contribute to the modernization of our platforms

Lead teams through transition from ideation to execution

Research to better define the opportunity and understand customer requirements

Develop your stakeholder communication as you collaborate with stakeholders and leadership

Collaborate with development teams to build and launch new products, features and programs

Work on systems that are mission critical to the company and are used every day by thousands of developers and operators

Independently lead high complexity (end-2-end) projects, drive multiple medium complexity projects and/or manage program portfolio of technical or security projects

Role Qualifications and Requirements

Bachelor's Degree

3 to 5 years of relevant experience

Incident Management

Delivery Management

Process Management

Project Management

Change Management

Operational Excellence

Communication (written & verbal)

Collaboration

Stakeholder Management

Solid familiarity with project/change management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle

Benefits & Perks

Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide

Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture

Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation

Competitive compensation and benefits package 

Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings 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.

If your application is successful, your personal data may be used for a pre-employment screening check by a third party as permitted by applicable law. Depending on the vacancy and applicable law, a pre-employment screening may include employment history, education and other information (such as media information) that may be necessary for determining your qualifications and suitability for the position.