Senior Director, Flights Eng: AI-Driven Travel Leader

Priceline

Norwalk (CT)

Hybrid

USD 210,000 - 265,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Health & wellness coverage
Generous time off (PTO, holidays)
Work-from-anywhere up to 4 weeks/year
Travel perks and discounts
Tuition support and family benefits

Job summary

Priceline is seeking a Senior Director of Flights Engineering to lead the flight shopping platform’s services, coach managers, and shape multi-team roadmaps. This hybrid role emphasizes scalable architecture, AI-enabled innovation, and cross-functional influence across Product and Engineering.

You will guide a leaders-first organization, with 20+ engineers and managers, across global teams, delivering high-impact travel tech at scale while upholding Priceline values and customer-focused

Qualifications

  • 15+ years of experience in software engineering and development.
  • 5+ years experience in leading software development teams.
  • Proven track record managing a mix of people-managers and senior ICs, overseeing an org of 20+ across multiple teams
  • B2C, e-commerce, or OTA experience, ideally with a strong experimentation culture; travel industry experience a plus
  • Skilled at hiring, coaching, and developing engineering leaders, including performance management of managers
  • Experience operating across global, cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities through organizational change
  • Proven collaboration skills with both technical and less-technical colleagues.
  • Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS.
  • Strong system-architecture fluency, with comfort partnering deeply on technical decisions
  • Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.

Responsibilities

  • Lead and be responsible for a software development teams that owns the services that power Priceline’s Flight Shopping Platform
  • Serve as a leader of leaders, scaling delivery and cross-functional execution through your teams
  • Drive technology strategy, operational backbone, and system architecture decisions across the flights domain
  • Lead adoption of AI/agentic engineering practices to accelerate shopping-experience innovation
  • Own the multi-team roadmap and partner with Product Group Engineering leads, flight commercial stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to set priorities and long-term technical direction
  • Manage and coach talented managers and engineers of all levels of experience.
  • Have influence on what we build, how we build, and how we work.
  • Participate in various formal and/or grass-roots technical and non-technical communities at Priceline.
  • Become part of a team and organization that is passionate about our work, but values a healthy work/life balance.

Skills

Team leadership
Technical strategy
Cross-functional leadership
AI/ML engineering
Systems architecture
Cloud ecosystems

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GCP
AWS

Job description

Priceline is seeking a Senior Director of Flights Engineering to lead the flight shopping platform’s services, coach managers, and shape multi-team roadmaps. This hybrid role emphasizes scalable architecture, AI-enabled innovation, and cross-functional influence across Product and Engineering.

You will guide a leaders-first organization, with 20+ engineers and managers, across global teams, delivering high-impact travel tech at scale while upholding Priceline values and customer-focused

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