Responsibilities
- Build a strong team within their area, by coaching and developing individual contributors
- Lead by example by taking ownership, being proactive and collaborating
- Nurture, grow and develop ML talent in the team
- Foster a great culture that innovates, work together as a team, partner with other Booking.com com teams and roles and celebrates unified success
- Translate business problems into viable, reliable and robust ML and AI solutions, accounting for constraints of the production environment.
- Monitor product health, performance and business impact and act accordingly when requirements are not met.
- Actively contribute to Machine Learning at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing, onboarding and mentoring colleagues.
- Adhere to the default principles for Architecture, quality and non-functional requirements
- Drive a culture of ownership and technical excellence, including reactive work such as incident escalations
- Thought partner for Product to define, shape and deliver the roadmap
- Build new products, processes and operational plans
- Negotiate on the strategic importance of own product roadmap features
- Drive innovation in own team
- Own the architecture across own team
Requirements
- Advanced knowledge and experience in areas like e.g. Recommender Systems, Online Machine Learning, Information Retrieval, Multi Armed Bandits, Causal Inference and Scaling ML models serving and training
- Experience designing and executing end-to-end research and development plans and generating impact through large-scale machine learning model development.
- Relevant work experience (MSc + 5 years of working experience), involved in the application of Machine Learning to business problems.
- Masters degree, PhD or equivalent experience in a quantitative field (e.g. Computer Science, Mathematics, Artificial Intelligence, Physics, etc.).
- Experience on multiple machine learning facets: working with large data sets, model development, statistics, experimentation, data visualization, optimization, software development.
- Experience collaborating cross functionally in the development of machine learning products (e.g. Developers, UX specialists, Product Managers, etc.).
- Strong working knowledge of Python, Java, Kafka, Hadoop, SQL, and Spark or similar technologies.
- Working experience with version control systems.
- Excellent English communication skills, both written and verbal.
- 3+ years leading an ML team of a minimum of 4 people in a fast-paced production environment.
- Successfully driving technical, business and people related initiatives that improve productivity, performance and quality while communicating with stakeholders at all levels
- Leading by example, gaining respect through actions, not your title.
- Developing your team and motivating them to achieve their goals.
- Providing feedback timely and managing your key team performance indicators
Benefits
- Living and working in Amsterdam, one of the most cosmopolitan cities in Europe
- Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travellers worldwide
- Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
- Opportunity to utilize technical expertise, leadership capabilities and entrepreneurial spirit
- Promote and drive impactful and innovative engineering solutions
- Technical, behavioural and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
- Competitive compensation and benefits package and some great added perks of working in the home city of Booking.com
