Director of Product Fintech (Traveler Payments)

Director of Product Fintech (Traveler Payments)

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Director of Product Fintech (Traveler Payments)

About Booking.com

Established in 1996 in Amsterdam, Booking.com has grown from a small Dutch start‑up to one of the largest e‑commerce companies in the world. Booking.com is the largest business within Booking Holdings (NASDAQ: BKNG) and accounts for the vast majority of Booking Holdings’ total revenue. Booking Holdings is a leading Fortune 500 e‑commerce conglomerate with a market cap of roughly $166 billion (2025). Booking.com currently employs approximately 13,000 employees in 140 offices in 70 countries worldwide.

With a mission to make it easier for everyone to experience the world, Booking.com invests in digital technology that helps take the friction out of travel. Booking.com connects travelers with the world’s largest selection of incredible places to stay, including everything from apartments, vacation homes, and family‑run B&Bs to 5‑star luxury resorts and even tree houses. The Booking.com website and mobile apps are available in over 44 languages, offer more than 28 M total reported listings, and cover over 174 000 destinations in 229 countries worldwide.

At Booking.com, we are all involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. The decisions we make are a reflection of our Values – they reflect what is important to us, both as individuals and as an organisation. When Values are made explicit, they provide clarity on what “good” looks like. And when they are shared, they build unity in a group. They build culture.

• Think customer first. We obsess about adding value for our customers – guests, partners, colleagues – to make it easier for everyone to experience the world.
• Own it. We deliver on our promises, make informed decisions and prioritize to get the important things done today.
• Learn forever. We are resilient, take time to reflect, and seek to learn – from colleagues, from the outside world and from our failures.
• Succeed together. We celebrate team success, through making connections, building trust and valuing the diverse perspectives of others.
• Do the right thing. We get the right results the right way. For each other, our communities and the world around us.

Role Overview

You will build the best‑in‑class payment experience for our travelers. You will be a critical player to ensure the next phase of growth and transformation. This person will be a key member of the Booking.com Fintech Products Leadership team, accelerating the “connected trip” for Booking.com and ensuring travelers will have a choice on how and when they would like to pay.

Responsibilities

• Define and own product strategy and vision for the Traveler Payments portfolio.
• Manage product profitability & commercial success: develop business cases, set pricing strategy, monitor key financial targets.
• Drive payments ecosystem partnerships: partner with commercial teams to negotiate with external partners such as PSPs, payment networks and value‑added services.
• Drive market and customer insight: conduct continuous market research, competitive analysis and product discovery to identify new opportunities.
• Own regulatory technology strategy and develop products to ensure compliance with global regulations.
• Lead and mentor a high‑performing team of product managers, foster a culture of accountability and data‑driven decision‑making.
• Executive communication and stakeholder alignment: liaison to senior leadership, present progress, secure budget investment.
• Coordinate cross‑functional collaboration across engineering, design, marketing, operations, finance and more to ensure timely, high‑quality product execution.
• Drive leadership development: empower senior team members and develop the next generation of product leaders.

Qualifications

• Significant years of product leadership experience within high‑traffic sites (100 k+ visitors per day), preferably global e‑commerce or marketplace companies.
• Minimum 5 years of subject‑matter expertise in the Fintech industry – market trends, PSPs, consumer payment solutions.
• Experience coaching senior product managers, group product managers and building end‑to‑end experiences in sophisticated environments.
• Proven experience aligning with senior management across business units and locations on payments compliance, fraud and legal.
• Ability to balance strategy, product execution and people management; data‑driven and experimental.
• Strong communication, influence and collaboration skills across multiple senior stakeholders within the company and external partners.
• Passion for booking culture and customer‑centric mindset.

Benefits and Culture

Booking.com is an inclusive employer and values diversity. We provide a culture of learning, collaboration and professionalism. We offer a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, continuous learning opportunities and a chance to shape global travel.

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