Expedia’s Media Solutions team is looking for an analytical, entrepreneurial, and creative Senior Director of Media Product Management to help us grow our global onsite media business. Reporting to the VP of Media Product & Analytics, you will be responsible for helping lead a team that owns the strategy, roadmap, and development of Expedia, Inc.’s global media product portfolio. To be successful, you’ll need to have a data-driven approach to product development, strong communication skills, and an unerring sense of how to balance multiple competing priorities under tight deadlines. You will work closely with Engineering, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Finance to ensure that the team executes on its mission to deliver the right ad to the right travel shopper at the right time.
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The position requires working closely with stakeholders across various lines of business and all brands within Expedia, Inc. to build new and improve existing advertising products. As a result, you will need to be a practiced negotiator and a creative problem solver capable of building consensus across a large global organization. Ideally you’re also a confident presenter, comfortable speaking at industry events or talking with clients about how we can partner to achieve their strategic marketing objectives.
Responsibilities:
Drive the strategy for new and existing media products ranging from desktop display and email and to programmatic and native
Identify new media opportunities and collaborate with stakeholders to come up with creative and mutually beneficial solutions to business and consumer problems
Develop and lead a team of experienced media product managers
Build business cases to support new initiatives as well as prioritizing the road map for the next set of media products and feature enhancements
Lead cross-functional teams to conceive and develop new product concepts, establish development milestones, and manage the development, implementation and subsequent rollout
Balance advertiser requirements and consumer experience to build best-in-class ecommerce travel advertising products
Help determine the most efficient way of delivering ads in a mobile environment based on a range of factors, including ad server performance, page performance, and the user experience
Manage multiple projects and details without losing site of the ‘big picture’
Be self-directed and able to move forward in a fast-paced, somewhat ambiguous environment
Skills and Requirements:
10+ years of relevant work experience in online advertising, business management and/or product development
Knowledge of online advertising preferred, including familiarity with ad serving, targeting, programmatic, native advertising and/or mobile ad experience
Demonstrated ability to manage and develop a high performing team
Proven excellence as an individual contributor in Product Management, capable of driving high-impact initiatives that deliver meaningful business results
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, with a demonstrated ability to use numbers and metrics to back up assumptions and evaluate outcomes; experience with financial modeling and statistics is a plus
Ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, with a strong bias for action
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, capable of interacting across all levels of the organization and with external partners
Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred
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