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.

Here at Expedia Group, we are looking for a motivated team member to join our Global Talent Acquisition (GTA) team as a Recruiting Program Specialist. As a Recruiting Program Specialist, you will play a key part in bringing top talent into our organization. In this role, you will focus on day-to-day candidate and new hire requests, and you will be a resource and subject matter expert for your internal and external stakeholders.

This includes, arranging interviews across multiple locations and time zones, supporting candidate onboarding activities, and navigating different processes, tools, and technologies. Additionally, the Recruiting Program Specialist will help lead process improvements, enhancing the candidate experience and partnership building, while offering guidance and support to the Global Talent Acquisition team.

What you’ll do:

• Deliver an excellent candidate experience through prompt follow up and communication throughout the candidate’s lifecycle from initial contact to start date.

• Provide a high-touch level of customer service to all stakeholders, including Recruiting, Sourcing and Delivery Teams within the GTA function, as well as Executive Assistants, Business Units and HR Partners.

• Serve as the point of contact for handling complex and urgent escalated cases within the GTA function and providing resolution in a professional and efficient manner. This may involve in-depth research, collaboration with cross-functional teams, and the application of company policies and procedures.

• Complex calendar management for pre-brief, hiring manager screens, individual and panel interviews, and debrief requests, ensuring a seamless and efficient process for both candidates and interviewers.

• Managing interview logistics, such as coordinating across multiple time zones, working with executive assistants, and hiring managers, reserving interview rooms, sending out interview invitations and coordinating candidate travel.

• Responsible for the pre-employment operational tasks such as offer document creation (including offer letters/contracts, equity letters, and relocation policies), and background check process management.

• Enter and maintain data integrity in recruiting tools.

• Quality check and post internal and external job postings (currently RCs own this, but question on whether they should future state).

• Play a key role in identifying and delivering on opportunities for improvement and efficiency.

• Initiate and lead strategic projects within the Enablement & Operations (E&O) team and GTA function. Step in and support E&O workstreams to achieve the E&O Team, GTA, and EG Goals.

• Assist in the planning, execution, and post-event activities: Before event- event logistics, such as venue selection, vendor coordination, and setup. During events- managing registration, guiding, and engaging attendees, and ensuring the smooth flow of activities. Post event- collaborate in the evaluation of event success, including gathering feedback and data for future improvements.

• Maintaining a comprehensive record of new hires' start dates, ensuring timely onboarding and coordination with other departments.

• Sending personalized welcome emails to new hires, providing essential information for a smooth first day.

• Coordinating the delivery of company-branded merchandise and welcome gift baskets for new employees, creating a warm and inviting atmosphere for incoming employees.

• Support equipment ordering for new hires ensuring they have the tools needed to be productive from day one.

Who you are:

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with different stakeholders and diverse teams.

• Have impeccable attention to detail.

• Possess the ability to multitask, prioritize and complete a high volume of tasks.

• You demonstrate excellent judgment, discretion and sensitivity when handling confidential information.

• You react with appropriate levels of urgency to situations and events that require quick response or turnaround.

• Proactive mindset: troubleshooting to remove obstacles before they become problems.

• Business process oriented with a focus on facilitating and improving team performance and efficiencies.

• Proven ability to collaborate and get work done through others.

• Ability to successfully interact and partner with colleagues at all levels of the organization.

• Flexibility to commit to shifts supporting the AMERS, EMEA and APAC regions.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $67,500.00 to $94,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $108,000.00, 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.

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™. © 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.

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.