• You will be part of the Content Intelligence team that builds the Content Intelligence Platform by consuming millions of images and textual inputs every day, and then enriching it with ML capabilities. • Eventually, these will serve downstream applications and personalize our customers' experience (think of a way to choose and surface the right images and reviews when customers book their next vacation). • As the ML manager of the team, you are expected to be the focal point for all technical aspects, make sure your team members deliver on their tasks, and work together with other stakeholders to define and shape the roadmap of our products. • You will work independently and will also be responsible for making technical decisions within your team. • When it comes to management, your expertise in handling people will motivate and inspire them to reach outstanding success! You should have experience in developing people. • You will mentor and coach your team while working closely with a Product Manager. • Your responsibilities include: Build a strong team within their area, by coaching and developing individual contributors • Prioritise work in collaboration with Product Managers, depending on business needs and keeping stakeholders aligned at all times. • Translate machine learning vision and strategy into planning and execution, and ensure timely delivery of their plans. • Develop innovative ML models, algorithms, and engineering approaches or identify existing ones, with the potential to impact our business. • Design and execute applied research plans to understand, apply, test, evolve, and generalise these technologies into reusable frameworks. • 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. • Identify underlying issues and opportunities across domains and situations that are not obviously related through application of structured thinking and logic. • Solve issues by applying methods and insights gained from a variety of disciplines, navigating a variety of environments. • Make things happen by maintaining motivation and conveying a sense of urgency, focusing on outcomes and accomplishments, while respecting the need to balance long- and short-term goals, by applying influencing techniques and decision making skills. • Drive, coach and mentor others through evidence and clear communication, explaining advanced technical concepts in simpler terms. • Continuously evolve your craft. Keep up to date with industry and academic standard methodologies, periodically explore new technologies, introduce them to the machine learning community and promote their application in areas where they can generate impact. • Actively contribute to Machine Learning at Booking.com through training, exploration of new technologies, interviewing, onboarding and mentoring colleagues. • Push for improvements, scaling and extending machine learning tooling and infrastructure, collaborating with central teams.