In this role you will…
Lead a team of product managers to take product concepts from idea through validation, shipping, measurement, and iteration.
Prioritize and manage our end-to-end product portfolio for LX, including supplier tools, APIs, responsive web shopping paths, and mobile apps.
Work closely with leaders from our business and supply teams, UX design, engineering, global retail, analytics, and marketing (and more) to deliver outstanding products to our customers. Encourage collaboration between LX and other Expedia teams.
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Build market and competitive awareness among the team. Ensure direct contact with suppliers and customers across geographies and segments to encourage customer empathy.
Set and reinforce product goals. Actively monitor key business metrics and adjust product and development team priorities as appropriate to deliver on financial and customer adoption goals.
We offer:
The opportunity for you to play a defining role in an emerging digital product category. The significant majority of local activity purchases still occur offline, and you will lead the team in delivering innovations for suppliers and customers to bring this industry online.
A nimble, fast-moving team environment, with the benefits of financial stability, mass-market global customer base, and brand that Expedia offers.
A transparent, humble work culture. Please check out our cultural norms; they reflect how we work together.
Respect for your life outside of work. While we work hard, you have flexibility to spend time with loved ones and pursue your personal interests.
A place where you can grow your career. Many of our top executives were promoted from within. We have high employee retention because we invest in our employees’ development, and are committed to making Expedia a great place to work.
Competencies, Knowledge and Behavior:
Required Qualifications:
10+ years technology product management and/or technology program management
3+ years consumer web or mobile products
3+ years direct people management, including hiring and demonstrated success in mentoring and developing team members.
Experience in Agile software engineering environments
Solid understanding of web and mobile technologies and user experience design patterns, and the innate curiosity and desire to learn more.
Experience building product forecast models including customer adoption and financial forecasts.
A passion for travel
Bachelor’s degree or higher
Preferred Qualifications:
Experience with mass-market (10 million+ monthly uniques) e-commerce sites or apps
Experience leading large product teams (5+ product managers)
Deep experience with web and mobile analytics tools, and ability to directly pull data (e.g., Omniture, Google Analytics, SQL)
2+ years product leadership of native mobile apps
Experience managing consumer products in international markets.
Some travel is required for this position (on average a few days each month). Applicants must have ability to travel internationally, and throughout US.
We strongly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and background will lead to a better environment for our employees and better products for our customers.
Key to our success…
Passion for Results: Drive high standards for individual, team, and organizational accomplishment; tenaciously work to meet or exceed challenging goals; derive satisfaction from goal achievement and continuous improvement.
Compelling Communication and Influence Skills: Clearly and succinctly convey information and ideas to individuals and groups; communicate in a focused and compelling way that captures and holds others’ attention. Create and execute influencing strategies that persuade key stakeholders to take action towards advancing shared interests and business goals.
Analytical Skills: Secure and compare information from multiple sources to identify core issues; commit to an action plan after weighing alternative solutions against decision criteria; proactively and quickly make sense of complex issues; responding effectively to complex and ambiguous situations.
Business Acumen: Demonstrate a keen understanding of basic business operations and the organizational levers (systems, processes, departments, functions) that drive profitable growth; draws from personal experience to quickly evaluate business plans and processes to identify data or recommendations that need further investigation.
Build and Maintain High Performing Organizations: Establish systems and processes to attract, develop, engage, and retain talented individuals; creating a work environment where people can realize their full potential; thus, allowing the organization to meet current and future business challenges.
Education:
BS Computer Science or Related Field
MBA
Compensation:
Expedia will structure a competitive compensation package to attract qualified candidates.
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