Senior Director, Flights Eng: AI-Driven Travel Leader

Priceline; Norwalk (CT); Hybrid; USD 210,000 - 265,000; Full time

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