Data Product Director

About Accor Tech & Digital

Accor Tech & Digital is the engine of technology, digital solutions, and transformation within the Group. Our 5,000 talents are committed to offering the best digital and tech experiences to our clients, our hotels, and our teams in 110 countries, and to shaping the future of hospitality.

Accor Tech & Digital: professions where intelligence is first and foremost human!

Accor Tech & Digital is the innovation and technological transformation laboratory of the world's leading hotel group. Our teams, called Heartist®, combine the best of hospitality with the best of tech & digital. Our ambition: to offer our clients personalized, memorable, and sustainable experiences.

Here, we create new ways of traveling in each of our 5,500 hotels, close to our 100 million clients in 110 countries. Here, we are at the heart of a fantastic playground for technological transition and the design of digital products and services for our clients and our hotel teams. Here, your scope of action will know no boundaries. So, with us, dare to make an impact on the world!

Your Biggest Challenge Awaits You

Within the Distribution & Hotel Services Tribe of the Data domain, we are looking for our Data Product Director to define the vision and roadmap for our data products, including a key component on the integration of Artificial Intelligence functionalities. You will build a lasting working relationship with your business stakeholders and all key stakeholders in the data ecosystem to ensure the roadmap aligns with business ambitions and creates value for the Accor group. You will work in tandem with the technical lead for your scope (Data Engineering Director) to frame the roadmap, in alignment with strategic business and data ambitions.

Your Mission

• As Data Product Director, you define, manage, and develop the product strategy and data usage, in collaboration with the Data Engineering Director for the functional area.
• In particular, you work to identify with your Business stakeholders opportunities for data valorization in service of strategic and operational objectives.
• You collaborate closely with Data Science & AI teams to design, develop, and deploy intelligent models and algorithms within our products.
• You develop the roadmap for the continuous development and improvement of products & services and are its functional guarantor.
• In partnership with the Data Engineering Director, you work to package and market the Product offering to your clients.
• You work in partnership with other Data Product Directors, Data Product Managers, and Product Owners, as well as the Data Engineering and Data Management teams, to ensure the delivery of products within the allocated time and budget, and ensure monitoring of the quality of products delivered to users.
• In this context, you will lead steering committees and communicate on the strategy, adoption plans, and improvement of the products for which you are responsible.
• You define product value monitoring indicators and report on the achievement of your functional area's ambitions.
• You manage the team of Product Owners for whom you have managerial responsibility.

Qualifications

• Graduate of a top general engineering or computer science school, or a specialized Master's degree in Big Data.
• 5 to 10 years of experience as a Data or BI Product Manager in the development of data platforms and associated products and/or data applications.
• Proven prior experience in team management.
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, and statistics principles, and their application in concrete products.
• Knowledge of database structures and data ingestion/integration/modeling processes.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, strong ability to formalize, customer-oriented mindset, synthesis skills, and "pedagogical" communication skills.
• Analytical skills, ability to propose solutions to solve problems or optimize the product.
• Good experience in hotel distribution is desirable.
• Fluent in French and English.

Additional Information

Our Commitments:

To the World

• Accor is committed to the world around us, with a strong employer culture focused on the development of our 300,000 talents.
• We adopt a continuous improvement approach to reduce the environmental impact of digital technology across all our projects.

To Your Career

• We enable all our employees to master their work-life balance and offer them the means to shape their work environment in their own image.
• Training and development paths are defined both individually and collectively so that we grow together, every day.

Concretely, at Accor Tech & Digital:

• Remote work possible several days a week from France and flexible work options: work from home, our offices, or even our hotels and coworking spaces thanks to Worklib.
• Every Wednesday afternoon, dedicate your time to in-depth work and personal development.
• Work in a multicultural and English-speaking environment.
• Continuous improvement & training: Hackathons, exceptional technological partnerships, dedicated talent management, certifications, and a specific training platform.

And also:

• ALL - Heartist® Program: preferential rates and flash offers for unforgettable stays and experiences in all our Accor addresses and with our partners, worldwide.
• Heartist® for good Volunteer Program: 1 day off during your working time to commit to an association.
• A Works Council that supports you in financing your cultural and sports activities.
• Sustainable Mobility Package for using "green" transportation or a "company bike" scheme in partnership with Zenride.
• Reimbursement of public urban transport passes between home and work, up to 75%.
• Meal tickets of €11 face value.
• A mandatory mutual insurance plan financed at 50% by Accor with no additional cost for dependents.
• Not to forget attractive working conditions with collaborative workspaces, restaurants, game areas, or even well-being and sports areas on-site or through Gymlib.

Your talent and motivation are our only selection criteria. We value the richness of diverse nationalities, personalities, and professional backgrounds. We know how to adapt to the specific needs of our employees, especially those with disabilities. We encourage all applications, regardless of gender, so dare to apply!

For us, recruitment is above all a story of encounters. Does this mission attract you? Apply and we will offer you:

• A discussion with our recruitment team to present the essential aspects of the position or guide you to the role that suits you.
• One or more interviews with managers and team members.
• For certain positions, you may also be asked to complete a test or a case study, as well as a questionnaire about your personality and motivations.
• A final interview with our Human Resources team to discuss the Group's culture, the work environment, our training program and career prospects, as well as the Group's various benefits.
• Personalized feedback.