What you’ll do:
Own technical program delivery by driving new feature development through every stage of the agile software development lifecycle
Drive agile planning, execution processes, backlog management and work prioritization
Collaborate with partners, product, and development teams to craft technical solutions and provide detailed specifications that satisfy scalability, reliability, and performance goals
Lead trade-offs between cost, schedule, and customer benefit; and provide technical direction and guidance
Turn high-level project objectives into a comprehensive set of requirements by collaborating with various business owners from multiple cross teams and domains
Write detailed technical specifications in the form of agile stories that developers and testers consume. This includes analyzing high-level requirements and working with service teams to understand their interfaces
You will go broad and deep into the platform architecture to work with the SRE teams on delivering highly scalable and resilient solutions
You will find opportunities to continuously harden our platform and cloud infrastructures at scale
Develop product phase-out planning in line with the product roadmap.
You will collaborate with partner teams to identify future needs and prioritize development and delivery
You will develop a disciplined approach to improving team abilities and efficiency
You will identify the metrics that matter and use them to drive team progress
Lead and define improvements in team processes, creating self-organising and impactful engineering teams
You will actively identify and resolve potential roadblocks with a hands-on approach
Provide Agile coaching/support for multiple workstreams
Who you are:
Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science or any related field; or equivalent related professional experience
You are an accomplished practitioner of Agile methodologies beyond simply running ceremonies and understand how to use and be Agile to best support the teams
You have excellent project management skills, including active mitigation of risks to the plan, providing status updates, management of trade-offs to drive satisfactory completion of product/project, and facilitation of planning and governance activities with the team(s)
6+ years of technical product management experience
6+ years with agile development practices and methodologies
Experience building strong relationships across different functions in the team and across parts of the organization
Have a keen sense of team dynamics and how to continually tune and improve the team's process to keep things running effectively
Strong analytical abilities, using tools and data to evaluate team success, process changes as well as the customer impact of feature delivery
Experience with working and evaluating business, web service, and infrastructure monitoring tools
Experience designing resilient, scalable, and highly available systems at scale
Prior engineering experience, building web applications at scale with core software development fundamentals
Fine attention to detail and high bar to deliver quality products and features
Highly collaborative, and calm in the face of competing priorities and ambiguity
A high degree of competency in all phases of project management, including issue and risk identification and management, tracking dependencies and achievements and communicating overall project status
Naturally curious and driven with a passion to make things better at every opportunity
You make decisions based on data/metrics and believes in customer centricity
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®.