Product Manager III

Who you are:

A high performing individual contributor who owns one or more product areas. With some supervision, leads project execution and represents their product area(s) within a cross-functional team. Proposes new feature ideas to address customer needs. Applies established product strategies and contributes to the development of new product strategies for product areas of ownership. Collaborates, with guidance, on global roadmap planning. Socializes and coordinates planning, updates and communications with program management. Achieves expected business results within their assigned projects. In this role your efforts will focus on integrating advanced AI/ML technologies, conducting rigorous market analysis, and leading product direction with data-driven insights to maintain Expedia’s competitive edge in the travel market.

What you'll do:

• Organizes the strategic vision into key themes that solve for both short-term and long–term business & customer requirements
• Takes a lead role in detailing a strategic plan to achieve key themes and milestones, using a compelling narrative to “tell the story” of the roadmap
• Facilitates tradeoff decisions with engineering teams to ensure a financially viable product that solves for customer need
• Facilitates integration of AI/ML into product functionality, leveraging an understanding of model development processes (data collection and processing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring)
• Leverages understanding of technical architecture to ensure decisions meet product requirements and adjusts designs to account for dependent systems
• Applies understanding of EG's structure and key players to identify potential product strategy dependencies
• Balances short-term and long-term business considerations with product decisions and is able to partner with finance to set incremental revenue targets
• Drives business innovation within the product portfolio
• References detailed market research, including customer segmentation, market sizing, and competitive analyses, as relevant to the product
• Clearly defines the product’s market value proposition through competitive analysis and/or understanding of customer pain points
• Develops testable hypotheses that relate industry and market trends to product performance
• Identifies friction within the customer journey and recommends customer-centric experience solutions and features to address
• Facilitates alignment between engineering and design teams by ensuring product goals are clearly articulated and visually represented
• Creates product experiments and interprets results in partnership with UX Designers
• Defines new metrics and new data sources to support continuous product improvement; drives monthly metrics reviews
• Independently designs product experiments, gathers and analyzes product data, draws insights, and makes informed product decisions; requests support from Data Analytics teams as necessary to support decision-making
• Builds effective product metric dashboards tailored to audience need that enable ongoing cross-functional decision-making and are useful for metric reviews
• Effectively prioritizes initiatives & features based on a comprehensive understanding of business strategy & market dynamics while leveraging a data-informed approach using pre-defined criteria
• Owns product requirements documentation leveraging EG standard toolkit and guides development of detailed user stories
• Collaborates to develop the engineering task breakdown of user stories to meet business and customer need; identifies and manages key dependencies
• Develops ability to influence without authority and to manage expectations; earns trust and credibility with peer leaders
• Encourages the team to achieve operational excellence by serving as an inspirational & motivational force
• Effectively communicates and influences up and down within the organization; uses analysis and team work to craft a relevant story that is meaningful to the audience
• A proven track record of clearly and persuasively articulating product concepts, strategies, and decisions to cross-functional teams and customers

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $137,500.00 to $192,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $220,000.00, 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.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.