Senior Product Manager

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

TRAVEL PARTNERSHIPS AND MEDIA  

Travel Partnerships and Media helps partners deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences, driving growth for them and the EG marketplace through competitive supply, a valued advertising and travel media network, and affiliate solutions. 

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.   

The Senior Product Manager role sits within the Partner Product division of Expedia Group which supports the rapidly growing Media Solutions advertising business. The team develops and optimises a range of media products, including sponsored listings for lodging and flights partners and native display advertising solutions. In this role, your expertise and passion for data, machine learning science and AI will improve the experience of millions of travelers and travel partners each year. 

You will make strategic decisions on how to foster a marketplace that optimizes for partner value, traveler relevancy, and ad monetization. The position will work closely across multiple teams in an area critical to Expedia Group’s growth and profitability goals.

In this role you will:

• Lead development of machine learning models powering automated bidding capabilities, collaborating with an auction team comprised of highly skilled machine learning scientists and data & software development engineers

• Leverage data-driven insights and market research to identify new product opportunities and optimize existing offerings to meet our partners needs

• Create and maintain a clear product roadmap, in partnership with Engineering, Experience Design, Analytics, and other teams, to align with business goals

• Monitor model performance and iterate based on user feedback and data analytics to launch model improvements which realise value for partners, travelers and Expedia Group

• Lead the successful launch of new ML-drive/AI-powered advertising products, features, and capabilities from concept to market introduction
   

Who you are:

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager, with a strong background in machine learning and/or AI

• Strongly preferred: You have a experience of working in an ecommerce or paid search/advertising environment and have a demonstrated understanding of auction mechanics

• You have a proven track record of teaming with machine learning scientists and engineers on large-scale product opportunities

• Comfortable with collecting and analyzing data from a variety of sources, identifying key insights, defining product optimization opportunities and informing business decisions

• Demonstrated ability to clearly and concisely communicate often complex results, concepts and opportunities to executives and cross-functional teams

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