Director, Software Development Engineering – Pricing

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.

Introduction to team 

We are the Distribution and Supply team at Expedia. We own Pricing, Inventory, Reservation and Offers. We delight our Travellers with great prices for any travel (hotel, vacation rental, air, cars, packages and cruises), and support them to reserve and manage their experience. We own the unified technical systems that perform these functions, and handle trillions of events that deliver this value at Expedia’s global scale. This role leads Pricing for our Traffic Management, Orchestration, and Insights. The role will report into our Senior Director, Pricing and Offers.

In this role, you will: 

• Lead the vision and creation of Pricing for our Travellers

• Deliver new business value through key pricing features, heuristics and machine learning models

• Unify and expand the technical stack between Expedia’s product lines, serving all our Travellers from a single set of data and services

• Own our Data and Machine Learning strategy, ensuring that systems make automated decisions that for our Travellers, removing risk from our business

• Mentor and coach our new engineering team in India, helping them establish the architecture direction, quality approach, and implementation guidelines

• Partner across multiple business and technical teams (partner technology, media, finance, etc.) to define priorities for our company, and help distill them into 1-3 year programs for your space

• Own the operations of the team for our Tier 1/2/3 systems, including programs to deprecate and refactor to advance our ability to serve Travellers

• An innovator with proven experience in developing new ideas in favor of your customers, with the ability to drive them to completion through a mix of personal effort, team effort and influence 

• A communicator of complex business and technical concepts, to any stakeholder, with clarity and precision

Experience and qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or master’s in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.

• Equivalent experience includes: Managed people managers and executing capacity planning/allocation for a team size of 30+.

• A people manager with experience in building and scaling teams, products and technology.

• A leader with a customer-focused mindset, able to think first of customers, and to use different perspectives (product features, technology, code, quality, operations, data, analytics and ML) to solve for their needs.

• A mentor of leaders, managers, and senior engineers, with 5+ years experience helping technical people develop, with proven business results obtained from career influence.

• A quality-minded person, able to inspire others to define and improve code and operational quality

• A communicator of complex business and technical concepts, to any stakeholder, with clarify and precision.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

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