ExpediaWhy us?

At Expedia, we believe in being thinker-doers - we are Makers.

Every day we seek autonomy, mastery and purpose in our work. Our "why" is to help millions of travelers find that ideal destination, phenomenal place to stay and a cool activity to make their trip a life experience. At the heart of this is Expedia’s Lodging Shopping team dedicated to solving problems for travelers on this journey.

Our team is looking for curious, empathetic, and creative problem solvers with the growth mindset. We are a team of travel-loving makers, building a cutting-edge shopping platform using open-source technologies. Our platform serves customers on desktop, tablet, and mobile devices on Expedia sites and through a variety of partners.

We innovate in the user interface and strive to improve overall user experience, including software, services and machine learning around the shopping experience. We know that we can't innovate a product without innovating the approach and the organization we use to build it – solving team problems is also part of our skill set. Our team is committed to pushing the boundaries of continuous delivery to get the best features into our customers hands in real time. We also care deeply about getting better every day by learning from our mistakes.

How you operate

• Be the voice and advocate for our customers.

• As a leader, influencer, and contributor across our team. We are spread across the world with over 100 engineers, designers and product managers with diverse backgrounds working in unison to make a cohesive experience.

• Enjoy working closely with engineering, user experience, analytics and product teams to understand customer problems, research and collaborate on technical solutions, and thrive in a time-boxed creative endeavor to deliver a solution.

• Excel at working alongside a global, distributed, hardworking and nimble team of cross-discipline makers, in groups of 4-8 people, to create innovative ways to deliver fast and performant experiences.

• Love being involved in cross-discipline teams to translate problems into solutions that will be tested qualitatively (through user research) and quantitatively (through business metrics).

• Strive to connect the thinking with doing in a feedback loop and embrace ambiguity.

• Thrive as a multiplier in a team environment with varied ideas and diversity of approaches to problems and their solutions.

• Your job will be your team's success. You will actively seek the advice of and direction from your colleagues and work with them to detail a common goal.

What you will do

• Lead a cross-functional team of engineers, UX designers and analysts from concept to product delivery focusing on solving specific customer problems.

• Partner with stakeholders around the company to ensure that the products + features we build are satisfying our customers’ needs and meeting business objectives.

• Utilize data and research to make decisions around our product.

• Manage trade-offs between cost and time-to-market.

• Present strategy, progress and product features to senior leadership.

• Build a culture of trust and encourage innovation.

Who you are:
You’ll fit this role if you have

• What it takes to be a Maker and you can relate to the following principles:

• A bias towards action - You believe that speed and quality aren’t mutually exclusive. You’ve shown good judgment about getting features to customers while still making sure that products are built in a sustainable, adaptive and responsible way. You welcome the opportunity to learn and improve, by embracing a growth mindset.

• The grit to try and try again - You are willing to iteratively work at solving a problem, because you deeply care about customers, and you are open to a continuous feedback loop.

  • Love the journey - You will be dissatisfied with the end result at some point. It might be a week after you’ve launched a feature. Our work is never done and to thrive you have to learn to love the process of thinking, doing, learning, and improving.

  • Done is better than perfect - Nothing is ever perfect. All of our customers are different with unique needs. We ship. We learn. We improve. We change.

  • Respect the craft - To make anything is to try to add something meaningful to the world whether it is just for you or for many other people. Why do anything unless you will try to do it really well. We are the gatekeepers of quality.

• 2+ years of direct product management experience; product experience focusing on e-commerce a plus.

• Excellent technical, analytical, and problem-solving abilities, along with an ability to collaborate cross-functionally.

• First-class influencing skills, including experience working within a large matrix organization.

• A drive to identify new opportunities, develop strategies to drive growth, and to push projects forward.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Bachelor’s degree required.

About Expedia

Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.

Collectively, Expedia Group, Inc. cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia, Inc. portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 149,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners. Please visit the company website to learn more about our travel brands.

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Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.