Chief of Staff for SVP, Partner Products and Marketplace – Principal Product 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 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.

Chief of Staff for SVP, Partner Products and Marketplace – Principal Product Manager

Introduction to team

Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

We are seeking a Chief of Staff (Principal/Director level) for the Partner Products and Marketplace organization. This position (based in Seattle) will report directly to the SVP of Partner Products and will drive accountability for critical cross-team initiatives, lead special projects and enable cross-functional efficiency. This is an individual contributor role and is strongly strategic, operational and analytical in nature.

The person in this role will be a key member of the Partner Products leadership team, and a true thought partner that sets up the organization for scale, agility and high performance. We anticipate this role to have high exposure and be a steppingstone to leadership positions at Expedia Group and are supportive of career movement or progression.

In this role, you will:

Be Thought Leadership and Analytically focused:

• Help product leaders build and vet business cases; improve data driven storytelling with a goal to drive better decision making and results

• Apply analytical rigor to synthesize data into insights and help achieve business goals

• Make recommendations for resource allocation to align with strategic goals. Ensure that priority projects are appropriately resourced, driving trade-off decisions or making business cases for new asks where necessary

• Create transparency into business outcomes (metrics and financial targets) and the roadmap work that drives them

• Optimize product, design, and operation processes to ensure efficiency and speed, working closely with leaders in cross-functional organizations

• Optimize Partner Products ways of working to help drive engagement and make EG a place our team members can do their best work

Be Execution Focused:

• Lead cross functional initiatives that set the organization up for scale, agility and high performance. Examples: organizational health metrics, hiring velocity, efficient reviews

• Ensure alignment across the organization on overall strategic goals for each planning cycle

• Drive orchestration of work streams and initiatives, coordinating with product lines to ensure consistency in execution

• Work with biz ops to plan and organize leadership off-sites, town halls, and day to day priorities for the SVP of Partner Products

• Drive complex technical and strategic initiatives on behalf of the SVP, Partner Products, within and across divisions

Build Relationships:

• Be the voice of the SVP and act as the primary delegate for Partner Products on one or more complex or ambiguous initiatives

• Partner with strategy team to ensure consistent prioritization of product roadmaps across divisions. Coordinate key priorities and timelines to reduce blockers due to dependencies

• Provide strategic guidance and input to internal and external communications, strategic planning, leadership offsites, Town Halls, and day-to-day priorities for the SVP, working with enablement partners

Manage Key Processes:

• Assimilate new teams and leadership team members into the team

• Drive Product reviews in partnership with product and strategy org

• Create organizational health metrics and action plans in partnership with HR team

• Conduct cross function