Senior Manager, Technical Program Management

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 global hybrid work setup (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. 

Senior Manager, Technical Program Management

Introduction to the team

The Distribution & Supply Tech organization at Expedia Group develops and maintains scalable, high-performing back-end systems for the Reservations, Inventory, Pricing, and Offers domains. The Technical Program Management team drives critical programs in collaboration with engineering and product teams across multiple global locations powering key traveler and supplier experiences. This team ensures the timely delivery of high-impact programs, supporting seamless experiences across all Expedia Group brands and partnerships with air, lodging, and car suppliers worldwide.

As a Senior Manager of Technical Programs, you will lead a team of 6-8 Technical Program Managers in the coordination, structure, tracking, communications and delivery of key business decisions and initiatives for Distribution & Supply. You will take a balanced approach to providing guidance and expectations while simultaneously empowering team members to be accountable and make decisions.
 

In this role, you will:

• You will support the team to establish working relationships with stakeholders and build rapport to become a trusted advisor

• You will coach the team to design differentiated technical communications (content focus, style, presentation, etc.) for various internal and external audiences based on an understanding of their differing levels of familiarity with technical language

• You will evaluate the progress of projects within the portfolio and work with the team to mitigate issues and risks to ensure portfolio health including managing the actual or potential gaps in resourcing for projects and recommending strategies to mitigate

• You will manage project portfolio and participate in prioritization decisions, portfolio health and managing the governance structure

• You will craft the culture of your team by building team rituals, processes and practices that build strong team bonds and an open trusting environment where diverse viewpoints, opinions, and approaches and candid conversations and critiques can happen

• You will evaluate the full complement of team talent, identify gaps, and implement action plans to fill gaps and drive achievement of goals

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in a technical field (Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering, etc.), or MBA, or equivalent professional experience; MBA is a plus

• Experienced people manager with a proven track record of leading teams responsible for complex programs across multiple portfolios

• Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience, with a solid history of managing performance and mentoring team members across locations

• Ability to define team goals aligned with broader business objectives, fostering collaboration across multiple teams

• Strong collaboration skills with product teams to influence and deliver on product roadmaps

• Expertise in technical areas such as architecture, testing, monitoring, data access patterns, and streaming technologies

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.

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