Director, Vacation Rental & Transport Business Effectiveness

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.

Director, Vacation Rental & Transport Business Effectiveness

Introduction to Team:

Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences, driving growth for them and the EG marketplace through competitive supply, a valued advertising and travel media network, and affiliate solutions.

Make An Impact!

As an integral member of TPA's VR and Transport leadership teams, this role is an advocate, problem solver and trusted liaison to the extended leadership team. The role will have the acumen to handle complex situations and the ability to juggle multiple responsibilities simultaneously, including balancing progress on long-term projects with the urgency of immediate operational demands. The ideal candidate must have demonstrated ability to; deal with confidential information, implement operational governance, define the rhythm of the business and act as a trusted advisor and confidant to LOB executives, driving communication, collaboration, and alignment to achieve the teams’ Operating Plan.

The Director will design and streamline both day-to-day and strategic business operations, develop communications for the group, provide project management and support on initiatives, drive a high functioning leadership team and cross-EG programs relating to org design and culture.

This role collaborates to achieve actionable results through others, requires the ability to build strong and sustainable relationships, as well as the capability to successfully interact with all levels of the organization, including executive leadership.

In This Role You Will:

Business Effectiveness:  
• Facilitate the flow of accurate and timely information, communication and alignment throughout the three separate leadership teams to accelerate speed and quality of decision making and execution. 
• Drive rhythm of the business- prioritize and set cadence for internal communications, Slack channels, leadership meetings and weekly staff focus, offsites and Town Halls.  

• This also includes partnering with analytics and finance on trading needs and rhythms, product roadmaps and reviews, marketing reviews, operational servicing reviews, resource allocation frameworks, and more.  

• Lead the organizational rhythms and check in points on LOB OKRs and contributing to annual planning processes. 

• Partner across TPA, Product/Tech and Brand teams on strategic projects, scorecard delivery and comprehension and ad-hoc items as needed. Thinking holistically and strategically about processes, policy and procedural needs, continuous improvement and clear the path to execution. 

Leader Effectiveness: 

• Manage the strategic and day-to-day operations of the teams by helping the leadership team navigate challenging problems including identifying people and organizational issues that impede success, providing insightful recommendations that drive efficiencies and maximize productivity and effectiveness, and listening to feedback to refine and evolve solutions. 

• Assist leaders in developing org structures that optimize talent and team effectiveness. 

• Partner with HR Business Partner to align business needs for organizational design, leadership development, organizational health, and