Technical Product Manager II

Are you Technical Product Manager with a real passion for technology and delivery? Are you a self starter, looking for your next big challenge? Then we would like you to join our team.

Bring your experience, creativity, collaboration skills, and your dream to be the best, and join us as we continue to reinvent travel! Help us define and drive new features for our award-winning family of interactive travel products.

The Lodging Connectivity is within the broader Lodging Technology team, part of Marketplaces and Yield, and is responsible for providing the APIs used by Expedia’s hotel partners to provide inventory details and consume bookings. Our services are designed to handle millions of transactions a day and run in a real-time 24×7 environment so robustness, scalability, reliability and high performance.

What you’ll do: 

• You will be working across several teams from Lodging, EPC, Finance, Product, Analytics, Account Management, Business Development, GSO etc. and with Hotel partners

• You will distill business requirements to resolve project scope, translating project objectives into features, driving projects through development and launch, and monitoring the success of post-launch improvements across teams

• We are looking for someone with technology background, this is important to a technical product manager’s success, but here at Expedia we also look for people who are passionate about applying their knowledge to address complex business issues

• Having the ability to understand the needs of Expedia, the customer, the supplier, and the implications on the underlying technology, and be able to translate these needs into new services

• Collaboration with Product and Business Development Teams to review goals, requirements and their business impacts

• You will work with various internal teams and tech leaders to build road maps for each of the Phases and enable delivery

• Ability to build a deep knowledge of the entire Lodging Tech Stack and relevant dependencies

• Engage and partner with teams to drive improvements to performance, scalability and tech health

Who you are: 

• 4+ years’ experience working in multi-functional teams consists of Program Managers, Product Managers, Developers, and business owners

• Prior experience as a business or process analyst and a developer is a plus

• An ambitious spirit with who can drive innovation independently

• Passion to make things better at every opportunity

• Ability to credibly coordinate between technical teams and business partners

• Have several years of large-scale e-commerce experience and an exposure to Service Oriented Architectures

• Deep understanding of technical platforms, and internal and party API interfaces

• Excellent verbal, communication, relationship and engagement skills

• Strong presentation and persuasion skills

• Strong knowledge of software development processes

• Ability to effectively establish and maintain working relationships with all levels of the organization

• Analysis and creative problem-solving skills

• Experience working with development methodologies, e.g. Agile and SCRUM, and process workflow across organizations

• High degree of competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management; change management; tracking dependencies and achievements; and communicating overall project status

About Expedia Group  

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, Egencia®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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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.