Max van der Heijden is a Product Manager at Booking.com where he leads product development for the company’s hostels offering. Max’s team empowers millions of hostel travellers to use the Booking.com website and app to explore the world. Formed in 2018, the team has already run hundreds of A/B experiments to improve the experience for Booking.com’s hostel customers and partners.

Prior to joining Booking.com, Max worked at Google as a user experience and conversion rate optimisation specialist for Google’s largest global advertisers in different industries and at Shop2market (now AdCurve) where he did research and product development on Conversion Attribution, Customer Lifetime Value and the Customer Journey.