Product Manager III, Intent Understanding & Refinement

Expedia; Washington; On-site; USD 138,000 - 193,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedia Group is seeking a Product Manager III to lead intent understanding and refinement across our Search and Recommendations experiences. You will define product strategy, roadmap, and operating model, partnering with Data Science, Engineering, Design, and business stakeholders to translate traveler intent into relevant results.

Based in Seattle, you will shape how traveler signals are captured, disambiguated, and turned into measurable improvements across brands and markets.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of product management experience, owning a platform used by other teams.
• Experience with experimentation tooling and data analysis.
• Experience with machine learning-backed ranking or recommendation systems.

Responsibilities

• Define a framework for representing traveler intent and context across sessions.
• Identify opportunities to improve how intent is captured and passed to experiences.
• Translate complex traveler problems into measurable product requirements and roadmaps.
• Collaborate with Data Science and ML teams on objectives and priorities.
• Work with Engineering to define scalable interfaces and data contracts.
• Own opportunities to improve filters, categories, and models.
• Balance traveler value, business impact, and feasibility in prioritization.
• Develop a shared taxonomy for intent signals and guardrails.
• Establish success metrics and conduct qualitative/quantitative validation.

Skills

Data fluency

ML-backed products

Experimentation tooling

Ranking/Recommendations

Product management

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Product Manager III, Intent Understanding & Refinement

Introduction to the Team

The Product Team creates high-quality end-to-end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our focus on customer-centric innovation enables us to develop products that build loyalty and repeat business. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to drive growth and achieve results for our customers and the company.

Make an impact!

We are looking for a Product Manager III to lead intent understanding and refinement across Expedia Group's Search and Recommendations experiences.

Travelers often express their needs indirectly: a destination may imply a trip purpose, a collection of words may signal a preference, and an evolving session may reveal intent that was not present in the initial query. This role will help our products understand those signals, refine them into useful traveler context, and translate that understanding into better search and recommendation experiences.

You will define the product strategy, operating model, and roadmap for capabilities that connect traveler intent to relevant results, recommendations, and next-best experiences. You will work across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Design, Research, and business stakeholders to make intent understanding a consistent, measurable capability across the shopping journey.

In this role, you will:

• Establish a clear framework for representing traveler intent, including explicit queries, inferred preferences, trip context, constraints, and changes in intent throughout a session.
• Identify opportunities to improve how intent is captured, interpreted, disambiguated, refined, and passed to downstream experiences.
• Translate ambiguous traveler problems into crisp product requirements, measurable outcomes, and sequenced roadmaps.
• Partner with Data Science and Machine Learning teams on model objectives, feature priorities, evaluation frameworks, feedback loops, and responsible use of personalization signals.
• Work with Engineering and platform teams to define scalable interfaces, data contracts, instrumentation, and self-service capabilities that can support multiple brands, markets, and traveler journeys.
• Own and identify opportunities to improve filters categories/labels/models.
• Balance traveler value, business impact, technical feasibility, operational complexity, and trust when making prioritization decisions.
• Develop a shared taxonomy and language for intent signals and filters so that teams can align on definitions, ownership, quality, and measurement.
• Establish success metrics and guardrails, such as relevance, engagement, progression, conversion, satisfaction, latency, coverage, and fairness.
• Use qualitative and quantitative research, experimentation, behavioral data, and operational feedback to identify gaps and validate solutions.
• Create alignment across a complex stakeholder environment and communicate product direction clearly to senior leaders and delivery teams.
• Help shape the longer-term evolution of Search and Recommendations into more adaptive, context-aware, and traveler-centered experiences.

Experience and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 5 or more years of product management experience, including ownership of a platform or capability that other teams built on top of
• Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to scaled adoption
• Data fluency, including proficiency with experimentation tooling and the data analysis used to design and evaluate tests
• Experience with machine learning backed products such as ranking or recommendation systems

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools or workflows, and with applying machine learning concepts to real world products
• Experience with configurable or low-code platforms where internal teams are your customer alongside the traveler
• Experience trading organic relevance against paid or promoted placement, or a comparable commercial tension

Location expectations

This role is based in Seattle, Washington only.

Salary

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