Senior Technical Program Manager

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team 

The Membership & Engagement organization builds the platforms and capabilities that power trusted, personalized, and connected travel experiences. Our work spans three core domains -  Loyalty, Identity, and Messaging,  each foundational to how travelers interact with our brands. 

• Loyalty delivers the value, rewards, and benefits that drive repeat engagement and long term customer affinity. 

• Identity provides secure, seamless access and the unified traveler identity that powers personalization across the ecosystem. 

• Messaging ensures timely, reliable, and contextual communication across channels, enabling cohesive end to end journeys. 

Our teams operate at scale and at speed, translating strategy into durable systems and measurable outcomes. Together, we’re enhancing travel by creating a sense of belonging that keeps travelers connected and coming back. 

As a  Senior Technical Program Manager , you will lead complex, cross domain initiatives that sit at the intersection of  technology delivery, execution discipline, and organizational effectiveness . You will be responsible for driving alignment from strategy through execution, bringing structure to ambiguity, clarity to priorities, and rigor to delivery. 

This role requires a senior leader who can navigate both deep technical programs while also shaping our operating model and influencing stakeholders through new ways of working. You will have strong stakeholder managements skills and be comfortable working closely with engineering, product, data, and business leaders to ensure outcomes are delivered predictably and at scale.

In this role, you will:

• Drive complex, cross-functional technical programs from definition through delivery, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and partner teams to achieve agreed business outcomes

• Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable program plans with detailed scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics, and continuously manage risk, issues, and trade-offs

• Lead coordination of multiple technical teams and services, facilitating architecture, system design, API design, and data modeling discussions to ensure cohesive end-to-end solutions

• Establish and run effective program operating rhythms, including governance, status, and decision forums, using data and metrics to provide clear visibility into program health and to influence stakeholders

• Foster operational excellence by defining and driving standards for quality, reliability, security, and scalability across programs, including readiness, launch, and post-launch support processes

• Apply familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, and safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions that improve outcomes across multiple domains and services

Minimum Qualifications:

• Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technical programs with ownership across multiple services or domains, including end-to-end delivery accountability

• Solid background working closely with software engineering teams on system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling, with the ability to understand and challenge technical approaches

• Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependency maps, risks, and trade-offs across organizations, using data and metrics to drive decisions and communicate program status and outcomes

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML enabled solutions that improve customer or business outcomes

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience driving technical programs that operate at significant scale, with demanding reliability, performance, and security requirements across multiple services or platforms

• Track record of influencing technical and architectural direction across teams or domains, facilitating decisions that balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural health

• Demonstrated excellence in building and improving program management frameworks, operational processes, and metrics that raise the bar on execution quality and predictability across organizations

• Experience applying AI/ML capabilities or AI-assisted tooling within complex technical programs to improve developer productivity, customer experiences, or operational efficiency, while ensuring safe and compliant usage aligned to organizational standards

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits .

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We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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