Job Description

Expedia's Developer Platform Team serves as the front door for developers in the broader Developer Platform & Infrastructure (DP&I) organization ecosystem. We put the EG developer at the center of our focus. We optimize our platform with tools and frameworks to ensure Expedias developers can build, test, and deploy high-quality code safely and at scale. Our team is impactful and high-leverage: we work every day to reduce friction for our engineering community. We are platform designers with a human focus: customer-centric, quality driven, and empathetic. We recognize excellent platform products are not possible without first innovating the way you build them. Essential team focus areas include building a common toolkit for developers, creating a best-in-class developer experience, helping developers get their code from commit to production and providing the platform for EG brands to run our sites and pages.

We are looking for a dynamic, organized self-starter to lead our most critical and highly visible products. To succeed, you should have strong problem-solving and business skills, as well as experience leading and influencing teams. You are also a designer who can define a compelling vision, build powerful experiences and launch/iteratively improve products. This is a high impact role, that requires you to be an influential voice for the product and build momentum at all levels of the company.



What youll do:

* Lead design system programs, key initiatives or product areas and influence across multiple customer experience touch points
* Strive to understand our developers as customers - identify target personas and invent end-to-end experiences that delight
* Define success and establish metrics to measure platform product performance
* Use established design patterns, while pushing new standards when appropriate
* Bring a systematic point of view to problem-solving, while understanding how to isolate specific issues and opportunities
* Optimize and evolve design with partners (Design, Product, Engineering) and ensure the integrity of the experience and design system is upheld
* Advocate adoption of your platform products internally and externally
* Execute efficiently in a fast-paced fluid environment where change is constant, and innovation is encouraged





Who you are:

* MFA, BFA, or BS in Human Factors, Interaction Design, Graphic Design or equivalent experience
* Strong in 1 core skill, capable in 2 others: Interaction/visual design, Information architecture, User research, Facilitation, Prototyping, Technical/Platform knowledge, UX writing, Illustration, and Motion design
* 3-5 years of working experience in a design role
* Experience in web (responsive desired), native mobile, product graphic, interaction, or information design
* Excellent core visual or interaction design skills with strong technical capabilities in prototyping, front-end presentation technology, and user-centered design methods
* Demonstrated knowledge in mobile platforms
* Excellent written and verbal skills to clearly communicate a strong rationale for how the system will work and evolve
* Familiarity with concepts around modularity, reusability, progressive enhancement, browser fallbacks, and state and conditional logic
* Understanding of how technical back-end and front-end fit together across channels





Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Egencia, trivago, Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Hotwire, Expedia Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia Cruise and SilverRail Technologies, Inc. For more information, visit www.expediagroup.com.

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.

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.