Senior Product Manager

Expedia Group; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 173,000 - 243,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Paid time off

Employee Assistance Program

Wellness reimbursement

Travel discounts

IATAN membership

Job summary

Expedia Group seeks a senior product leader to own the end-to-end strategy for its bidding platform across search, metasearch and performance channels.

You will drive development of an autonomous bidding system, define how decisions are made and monitored, and partner with scientists, engineers, and marketing leaders to maximize long-term business value while ensuring platform reliability.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience owning technical or platform products end-to-end, from concept to scaled adoption.
• Advanced understanding of machine learning and marketing technology.
• Deep data-driven approach with metrics-driven decision making.
• Systems thinker with cross-functional collaboration experience.
• Influential communicator with interest in advertising technology and automation.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for bidding platform across search, metasearch, and performance channels.
• Lead development of autonomous bidding system including target-aware models, control systems, elasticity, and partner connectivity.
• Define how bidding decisions are made, executed, and monitored with auditable, scalable product experiences.
• Partner with scientists, engineers, marketing leaders, and other stakeholders to balance innovation, stability, and health of the platform.
• Set metrics and cadences to measure bidding performance, platform reliability, adoption, and efficiency.
• Use systems thinking and storytelling to align leaders, build feedback loops, and improve performance at scale.

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, or related field

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.

Introduction to the Team

The Search Product & Optimization team at Expedia Group sits within the Marketing division and is responsible for the algorithmic intelligence behind our global marketing investments. We operate in a fast-paced and dynamic environment, participating in millions of auctions daily across Search, Metasearch and Social platforms. Our mission is to build scalable, data-driven systems that optimize how we acquire traffic. We are moving beyond manual operations to develop an autonomous bidding system that dynamically allocates investment to maximize business value.

In This Role, You Will

• Own the end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market plan for Expedia Group’s bidding platform across search engine marketing, metasearch, and other performance channels.
• Lead the development of an autonomous bidding system, prioritizing capabilities such as target-aware models, control systems, elasticity measurement, and partner connectivity to maximize long-term business value against financial goals.
• Define how bidding decisions are made, executed, and monitored by creating transparent, auditable, and scalable product experiences that build stakeholder trust.
• Partner closely with scientists, engineers, marketing leaders, and other cross-functional stakeholders to make thoughtful trade-offs across innovation, production stability, and platform health.
• Establish the metrics and operating cadences that measure bidding performance, platform reliability, adoption, and operational efficiency, and turn those insights into clear product priorities.
• Use systems thinking and clear storytelling to align leaders and partners around complex problem spaces, build feedback loops into releases and migrations, and continuously improve performance at scale.

Experience And Qualifications

• You have a bachelor's or master's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, a quantitative field, or related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.
• You have 7+ years of product management experience owning technical or platform products end-to-end, from early concept through scaled adoption, including product strategy, roadmap development, and go-to-market planning.
• You have an advanced understanding of machine learning and marketing technology, and you can partner credibly with scientists and engineers on optimization, experimentation, elasticity, orchestration, and algorithm-driven decision systems.
• You are deeply data-driven and know how to define meaningful metrics, understand their relationships, and translate analysis into clear product decisions and stakeholder alignment.
• You are a systems thinker who can work across functions to define complex problem spaces, identify the drivers of desired outcomes, and design ways to measure the impact of change across an interconnected ecosystem.
• You are an influential communicator with a strong interest in advertising technology, bidding markets, auctions, automation, and decision systems, and you are energized by ambiguity and turning business goals into solvable product problems.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual's knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits And Perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.