Pranav Pathak

Product Director

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands12 yrs 11 mos experience

AI EnabledHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led AI and ML product strategy at Booking.com.
Built AI-first products under real constraints.
Advised senior PMs on AI product strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Product Leader specializing in AI and ML for B2C SaaS platforms.

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Skills

Core Skills

AiProduct ManagementAi Product Strategy

Other Skills

MLDataP&L AccountabilityTeam ManagementGenAITeam BuildingEntrepreneurshipCProgrammingMarketingBusiness DevelopmentInvestmentsPublic RelationsFinanceLinux Kernel

About

Product leader working at the intersection of data, AI, and business decision systems. Lead data, ML, and AI product across Booking.com's marketplace, covering ranking, recommendations, pricing, personalization, trust and fraud, experimentation platforms, and GenAI, operating in continuous production at global scale. Background spans large platforms and zero-to-one environments, including product leadership at Meta and Flipkart, and co-founding startups. The common thread is AI on the critical path of revenue, efficiency, and risk. I build AI-first products that ship, scale, and operate under real constraints: organizational complexity, P&L accountability, and regulation. With an emphasis on deciding what to build, what not to build, and how to sequence investment across data foundations, applied ML, and GenAI. I write about AI product strategy and operating models at builderlab.ai. Open to advisory conversations with AI-first companies where outcomes matter.

Experience

12 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 11 mos

Average Tenure

6 mos

Current Experience

Productlab

Member of the Board of Advisors

Nov 2025 – Present · 6 mos

Advisory board member to a Berlin-based product leadership community for senior PMs, Heads of Product, and CPOs. Advise on AI product strategy and regularly speak at executive forums.

AI Product Strategy

Booking.com

2 roles

Director of Product, AI&ML

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Product Director for ML, AI, and Data across Booking.com's marketplace, including ranking, recommendations, pricing, personalization, and GenAI.
400+ person product, data science, and engineering organization. P&L accountability for the company's AI portfolio, the largest incremental revenue contributor in the marketplace.
Consolidated a fragmented set of ML teams optimizing local metrics into a single product-led organization with shared strategy, common shipping standards, and clear P&L accountability.
Built the company-wide framework used to sequence AI investment — what to build, what to fund, and what to kill — across foundational data platforms, applied ML systems, and GenAI.
Took GenAI to production across both customer-facing and internal efficiency use cases. Led Booking.com’s integration on strategic external surfaces, including ChatGPT, and established deep partnerships with leading LLM providers.

AIMLDataProduct ManagementP&L AccountabilityTeam Management

Group Product Manager

Mar 2017 – Mar 2022 · 5 yrs · Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Started in customer service ML, then founded the moderation and translation teams. Expanded the charter to ML across all commercial operations, then took end-to-end ownership of the Booking.com home page. Five years of progressively broader scope, from standing up individual ML teams to owning the highest-traffic surface in the product.

MLProduct Management

Waterbear network

Advisor to Executive Team

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Amsterdam Area

Worked directly with the CEO and Managing Director to stand up the product function from scratch. Built the roadmap, hired the first product team, established engineering ways of working, and set up the org and processes to ship.

Product ManagementTeam Building