Launch Manager, API Integrations

Expedia Group; London Borough of Islington; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness and travel reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group seeks a Launch Manager to coordinate API integrations and drive successful project delivery across internal teams and external partners. You will plan, document, and track requirements, guiding discussions with stakeholders from technical staff to executives.

You will facilitate kickoff sessions, maintain comprehensive documentation, and present API products and standards to diverse audiences.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of relevant professional experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 0–2 years with a master’s.
• Experience in project coordination, launch management, operations, business analysis, or a related field.
• Working knowledge of APIs and integrations.
• Organizational skills, including the ability to manage schedules, documentation, action items, and competing priorities.
• Proficient written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present information clearly to varied audiences.
• Familiarity with project management practices.
• Foundational business acumen and the ability to learn industry terminology, products, services, and performance indicators.
• Ability to work autonomously, take ownership of priorities and next steps, seek relevant information, and build effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders at varied levels.
• Experience supporting launches or projects involving multiple teams, processes, or stakeholder groups.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and drive execution of technical integrations and API implementations.
• Responsible for project planning and delivery of implementations whilst keeping stakeholders informed of progress and changes that may affect timing or outcomes.
• Work with internal stakeholders, partner, and technical teams to clarify project needs and document requirements, decisions, assumptions, and launch criteria.
• Facilitate kick off sessions and workshops with external partners, maintain project documentation and coordinate meetings and routine communications, including status updates, guidelines, procedures, and presentations.
• Present business rules & standards & API products and features to a wide range of stakeholders from developers, product managers to C-Suite.
• Build understanding of organizational processes, objectives, challenges, products, services, and performance indicators, and apply relevant information to project work.
• Identify opportunities to improve processes and efficiency and communicate recommendations.
• Adapt communications to the audience, explaining project and technical information clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support well-defined, lower-complexity projects, seeking guidance when scope or technical complexity is unclear.

Skills

Project coordination

Launch management

APIs

Stakeholder management

Documentation

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in business, project management, communications, or related technical field

Tools

APIs

Job description

Expedia Group seeks a Launch Manager to coordinate API integrations and drive successful project delivery across internal teams and external partners. You will plan, document, and track requirements, guiding discussions with stakeholders from technical staff to executives.

You will facilitate kickoff sessions, maintain comprehensive documentation, and present API products and standards to diverse audiences.