Technical Product Manager III

About Expedia Group

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 flexible work model (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 the Team

Expedia Group's B2B division brings innovative technology and travel distribution solutions to business partners across the world. We serve global financial institutions, corporate managed travel programs, offline travel agents, travel suppliers, and enterprise clients, delivering products and platforms that power their travel businesses. Our B2B solutions combine Expedia Group's scale, technology, and inventory to create exceptional partner experiences.As a Technical Product Manager III, you will play a pivotal role in shaping innovative B2B travel products that align with strategic business objectives and satisfy customer needs. You'll collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure our products remain at the forefront of the travel industry, integrating advanced AI/ML technologies, conducting rigorous market analysis, and leading product direction with data-driven insights to maintain Expedia Group's competitive edge.

In This Role, You Will

• Organize strategic vision into key themes that address both short-term and long-term business and customer requirements
• Detail strategic plans to achieve key milestones, using compelling narratives to communicate the product roadmap
• Facilitate integration of AI/ML into product functionality, leveraging understanding of model development processes including data collection, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring
• Partner with engineering teams to make tradeoff decisions that ensure financially viable products while solving customer needs
• Balance short-term and long-term business considerations with product decisions and partner with finance to set incremental revenue targets
• Conduct detailed market research, including customer segmentation, market sizing, and competitive analyses to define the product's market value proposition
• Design and execute product experiments, analyze data, draw insights, and make informed product decisions with support from Data Analytics teams as needed
• Build effective product metric dashboards tailored to audience needs that enable ongoing cross-functional decision-making and metric reviews
• Own product requirements documentation using Expedia Group standard toolkit and guide development of detailed user stories
• Influence without authority, earn trust and credibility with peer leaders, and effectively communicate up and down within the organization
• Articulate product concepts, strategies, and decisions clearly and persuasively to cross-functional teams and customers

Required Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
• 5+ years of product management experience (or 3+ years with a Master's degree)
• Demonstrated experience with Agile practices and product development methodologies
• Proficient understanding of AI/ML concepts and data science principles
• Proven track record of using data-driven insights to inform product decisions and strategy
• Experience owning product requirements, user stories, and cross-functional collaboration with engineering and design teams
• Proficient communication skills with ability to influence stakeholders at all levels
• Business acumen with ability to balance customer needs with financial objectives

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in B2B travel technology, SaaS, or marketplace products
• Understanding of technical architecture and system dependencies
• Experience building and interpreting product metrics dashboards
• Background in applying the scientific method to product experimentation and hypothesis testing
• Demonstrated ability to drive business innovation within a product portfolio

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Awards and Recognition

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Expedia Group Brands

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

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Key skills/competency

• Technical Product Management
• AI/ML Integration
• Market Research
• Product Strategy
• Agile Methodologies
• Stakeholder Influence
• Data-Driven Decisions
• SaaS Products
• B2B Travel Technology
• Product Roadmapping