Expedia

Senior Product Manager, Supplier Communications Platform

Posted on: 10 Apr 2021

Austin, TX

Job Description

Senior Product Manager, Supplier Communications Platform

Are you passionate about helping people find answers through conversational technology? Do you love to create systems that both power innovation and serve a global platform? Are you technical enough to collaborate with engineers to about the advantages of one technology over another? Expedia Group helps travelers find the right travel experiences, a search that includes the need to get answers from a property owner, hotelier or virtual assistant.

Expedia Groups Travel Partners Group is looking for Senior Product Manager, Supplier Communications Platform to help deliver the next generation, company-wide communications platform.

We provide the services that enable Travelers, Partners and Virtual Assistants to communicate throughout the Traveler journey, while ensuring transactions are safe and secure.

What you'll do:

* Think boldly creatively, and scientifically to create concrete product ideas and business cases for maximizing efficient and effective communications among all participants in the Expedia Group marketplaces

* Recognize issues and opportunities associated with our conversations platforms that have been surfaced by users who are well abstracted from our platform

* Define the vision and milestones for the supplier/traveler communication domain space and technical contracts with stakeholders so that expectations are clear

* You will present strategy, progress and product features to internal partners at a senior level, across multiple global locations

* You will collaborate with Expedia Group colleagues to identify and explore opportunities to use and/or co-develop platform capabilities

* Work with a talented group of engineers with an agile mindset and process to define, elaborate, and implement user stories

Who you are:

* 5+ years experience as a product manager, technical product manager, solutions architect, or technical integration consultant ideally for platform products

* You have experience working with scaled communication technologies leveraging data science and/or AI

* You have a validated history of evidence-based decisions

* You are a systems thinker with solid understanding of clean API designs, tooling & documentation around platform products and services

* You have prior experience driving integration of products and adoption of core services by stakeholders.

* You have the ability to handle large, complex products in a rapidly changing environment.

* You are a self-starter that is finds answers through querying operational and business data.

* Validated experience balancing the requirements for multiple stakeholders inside and outside the conversations platform.

* Experience preparing and presenting a technical roadmap, grooming product backlog, and participating in agile ceremonies.

* You can communicate and present technically complex concepts and translate them to simple terms for executives.

* Prior experience sizing OPEX for new services and providing a first pass negotiation of vendor contracts a plus.

* BS or BA in a related field preferred

* Experience working with remote teams

* Willing to travel up to 15%



About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Vrbo, Egencia, trivago, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Expedia Group Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert, CarRentals.com, and Expedia Cruises.

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

Bellevue, WA

About Expedia Group

Our mission is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.

Collectively, the Expedia Group brands cover virtually every aspect of researching, planning, and booking travel, from choosing the best airplane seat, to reading personal travel reviews of hotels, to planning what to do in a destination once you arrive. The Expedia Group portfolio serves both leisure and business travelers with tastes and budgets ranging from modest to luxury. Expedia delivers consumer travel demand from nearly every continent to nearly 149,000 hotels and hundreds of airlines, tour operators, car rental companies and destination services supply partners

Expedia, Inc. is revolutionizing travel through the power of technology, and the eCP team is at the heart of that mission. eCP provides a premier platform of eCommerce technologies and services operating at global scale to support our rapidly growing family of brands.

Together, we enable each of our customer transactions to flow seamlessly from the click of the 'book' button on one of our brand sites all the way through to a magnificent travel experience. By bringing together product, technology and operations, we accelerate innovation, enable test and learn, and constantly push ourselves to evolve and innovate for the business.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.