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.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• 6+ years of experience as a Technical Program Manager / Product Manager / Product Operations Manager
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Self-starter, accustomed to working in a changing environment
• Experience building capacity plans, performing data analysis, and influencing senior leaders to make prompt decisions based on said plans and analysis
• Validated experience designing and implementing effective planning processes and operations systems
• Strong ability to drive discussions among multiple business and technical teams to scope and schedule Product & Technology milestones
• Experience collaborating with Developers, Technical Product Managers, UX Designers, Product Managers, Engineers, and other team members from broad cross-sections of organizations
• Experience leveraging data visualization tools to help influence stakeholders
• Understands and participates in the product/tech development lifecycle
• Proven ability to define and develop outcome-driven programs
• Can clearly communicate process and program impact, benefits, and changes to stakeholders to improve knowledge, change attitudes and behaviors, and improve the working conditions and quality of life for affected teams
• Thinks holistically to find opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries
• Assesses bottlenecks in work processes within teams to streamline and simplify workflows
• Confirms comprehension and understanding of complex information and impact to the business by correctly and clearly answering routine questions
• Creates clear, concise, and organized communication materials (e.g., policies & procedures, guidelines, presentations, messages)
• Considers and understands the audience’s specific needs and comprehension level to find the right message and delivery method, limiting or explaining technical language
• Communicates a compelling rationale and narrative to peers and partners
  The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
  Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

• Own EG’s quarterly planning process, governance, and tooling implementation for your assigned teams, delivering operational excellence across all Product, Tech, and Design teams
• Fully align your teams to EG’s strategic priorities by embedding planning best practices across all touchpoints in collaboration with partner functions
• Enable teams to define, plan and deliver world class features, products and platforms
• Facilitate long-term capacity allocation planning and roadmap sequencing of strategic priorities
• Facilitate cross-team dependency mapping, enabling roadmap commitment decision-making
• Manage risks/constraints and influence overall delivery timelines for planning milestones and gates
• Provide Product with a holistic portfolio view, celebrating wins, flagging risks and escalating blockers
• Drive high quality Jira data standards, coaching stakeholders on best practices
• Build effective training and knowledge-sharing programs/materials that enforce and reaffirm Planning processes
• Perform carry-over analysis quarter to quarter for your assigned teams to iterate and improve quarterly planning
• Lead communications and relationships with partners throughout the Expedia organization
• Define and embed product ops best practices within your teams, providing clear visibility into roadmap delivery health and OKR/KPI performance and ensure they are effectively communicated
• Facilitate Product and OKR/KPI review ceremonies
• Proactively identify areas of operational improvement with your team, building solutions that are scalable cross-team