Senior Director, Global Experience Platform Engineering

Expedia, Inc.; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 278,000 - 474,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Travel discounts

Job summary

Expedia Group seeks a strategic, technically credible leader to modernize the Experience Platform for the AI era, building a fast, intelligent, configurable, travel platform. You will lead a globally distributed team across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations, guiding platform services and enterprise architecture decisions.

You will partner with senior leaders to elevate engineering practices, attract top talent, and drive modernization across internal developer and product

Qualifications

• Experience leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.
• Experience treating internal developers and product teams as customers.
• Experience with experience platforms, CMS technologies, design systems, or developer platforms.
• Strong technical credibility in platform architecture and enterprise tech decisions.
• Proven ability to scale engineering organizations with strategic vision and execution.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and cross-functional influence skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead a globally distributed org of ~130 employees across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations.
• Establish modern, high-quality platform engineering practices for internal developers and product teams.
• Guide evolution of experience platform services, web and app infrastructure, CMS, design systems, and configurable platform capabilities.
• Partner with the Chief Architect and senior technology leaders to influence technical direction and enterprise architecture decisions.
• Elevate leadership capability, strengthen engineering practices, and introduce innovative modernization approaches.
• Build strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and other Expedia Group functions.
• Challenge existing assumptions constructively and lead meaningful modernization rather than incremental improvement.
• Attract, develop, and retain a diverse organization of engineering and program management talent.

Skills

Global leadership

Platform mindset

Enterprise architecture

Cross-functional influence

Technical credibility

Tools

CMS technologies

Design systems

Commerce platforms

Developer platforms

Job description

Expedia Group seeks a strategic, technically credible leader to modernize the Experience Platform for the AI era, building a fast, intelligent, configurable, travel platform. You will lead a globally distributed team across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations, guiding platform services and enterprise architecture decisions.

You will partner with senior leaders to elevate engineering practices, attract top talent, and drive modernization across internal developer and product