Senior Program Manager-Strategic Initiatives

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Senior Program Manager, Strategic Initiatives

Are you a highly experienced, outstanding program leader who is looking to join a team at the heart of Expedia's transformation journey?

The Expedia Services Strategic Initiatives team works across the company’s many groups and products to deliver large, complex technology initiatives.  You will shape the future of Expedia by bringing a blend of product, strategy, and program management competencies to our portfolio of high visibility initiatives. This role is unique and inherently cross-functional - you will collaborate across the multiple teams that develop and run our platform to envision and deliver solutions.

What you’ll do:

Initiative leadership & program management

• You will lead large, long-term initiatives while delivering value incrementally by operating in an agile, rapid development environment
• You will operate effectively within the organization's formal and informal structures by building relationships across departments and understanding the roles and perspectives of diverse partner groups
• You will work across team boundaries with multiple product and program managers to appropriately prioritize work to align with overall initiative, organization, and company goals
• You will actively identify and drive resolution on cross-team issues, scope changes, resource constraints, and other impediments

Product strategy management

• You will continually build knowledge about our products, capabilities, usage, and future partner needs
• You will craft solutions that empower our business to scale and adapt by partnering with our brand and business partners to solve problems

Who you are:

Software Product Strategy & Program Management

• Experience owning or influencing product strategy & vision, roadmaps, and backlog prioritization
• Proven ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners.
• Experience utilizing Agile, Waterfall, and hybrid methodologies

Leadership / Interpersonal / Communication

• Demonstrated ability to deliver results by working across subject areas and organizational boundaries
• Excellent influencing and relationship building skills as well as experience working with senior management
• Experience working cross-culturally and leading cross-functionally, and ability to adapt personal style to different environments

Problem Solving / Structuring / Analytical Abilities

• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills; ability to see the “big picture” while also diving into details when needed
• Creative decision maker who can work independently and apply quantitative rigor to analyses and tradeoff decisions
• Strong program planning skills with experience structuring large initiatives in effective and meaningful ways

Experience/Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
• 10+ years of related experience in a world-class consulting firm, technology platform product management and/or large strategic program management
• Experience with developer tools, cloud technology, security, compliance, employee tech, networking, and/or infrastructure, in an ecommerce environment, is a plus

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000 to $242,500. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $157,500 to $220,500. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $252,000, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

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.

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