Jobs at KAYAK

Own the CRM product backlog and agile delivery for omni-channel lifecycle communications. Build CRM capabilities in MoEngage, design transactional and triggered journeys, run A/B/holdout tests, analyze results with SQL and dashboards, and partner with marketing, data science, engineering, and design to drive bookings and retention while ensuring privacy and deliverability compliance.

Own and optimize SEM marketing landing pages in a 12–18 month fixed-term role. Lead cross-functional teams to prioritize roadmap, design and run A/B/multivariate tests, analyze results with SQL and analytics tools, and iterate to improve conversion. Manage full product lifecycle, communicate insights to stakeholders, and balance user experience with marketing goals.

Lead SEM landing page product roadmap for conversion optimization. Design and run A/B and multivariate tests, analyze results with SQL and analytics tools, and drive product improvements working cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, SEO, and Performance Marketing. Manage full lifecycle from concept to launch, prioritize experiments, and communicate insights to stakeholders.

The Senior Java Software Engineer will implement new backend features, improve user experience, and maintain third-party API integrations while collaborating with the team in a hybrid work environment.

Lead and mentor a backend engineering team for Flights Meta, own technical roadmap, drive backend architecture and reliability, coordinate cross-functional delivery, improve production readiness and incident response, recruit and grow engineering talent.

Lead KAYAK's app acquisition and lifecycle marketing strategy, owning paid app growth, CRM (email/push/in-app), ASO, web-to-app journeys, measurement and attribution, forecasting, and team building. Collaborate across product, engineering, analytics, and regional teams to drive installs, activation, retention, and long-term LTV through data-informed experiments and multi-channel paid and organic programs.

The Enterprise Sales Leader will drive new business by managing sales cycles, negotiating contracts, and collaborating across teams to optimize enterprise travel solutions for clients.

Lead global finance systems strategy and roadmap (NetSuite, BlackLine, FloQast, Pontus), drive AI and automation in finance, govern integrations and SOX controls, partner with finance and engineering stakeholders, recruit and develop product and systems teams, and deliver outcomes like faster closes, reduced manual effort, and improved data integrity.

Lead strategy and execution for KAYAK's global finance systems (NetSuite, Pontus, BlackLine, FloQast). Own multi-year roadmap, governance, integrations, and AI/automation initiatives to shorten close cycles, reduce manual work, and strengthen controls. Build and manage a high-performing finance systems team, partner with finance and engineering stakeholders, present recommendations to senior leadership, and manage budgets and delivery.

Lead strategy and delivery for KAYAK's global finance systems (NetSuite ecosystem), own multi-year roadmap, drive AI/automation in finance, govern integrations and SOX compliance, partner with finance and engineering, and recruit and develop a high-performing finance systems team to accelerate closes and improve controls.

Lead North American ad sales for KAYAK, driving revenue growth, building and coaching a high-performing sales and account management team, owning partner relationships, collaborating cross-functionally on product and strategy, and using data to optimize advertising solutions and report results to leadership.

Lead and grow KAYAK's North American ad sales organization to drive revenue, develop high-performing teams, build advertiser and agency relationships, collaborate cross-functionally on product and strategy, use data to optimize performance, and represent KAYAK externally at industry events.

Localize and proofread HotelsCombined products and marketing content for Korean audience. Post-edit machine translation, follow style guides, perform LQA and functionality checks, maintain glossaries, and research to ensure culturally appropriate, SEO-aware translations across web, app, and marketing channels.

Lead end-to-end onboarding for enterprise clients of KAYAK for Business: gather and validate requirements, manage project plans and risks, coordinate integrations and data migrations, act as primary client contact, align with Account and Product teams, train customers, and improve onboarding processes for scale.

Design, build, and operate scalable ML infrastructure and automated pipelines for training, deployment, and monitoring. Own model serving, GPU provisioning, Kubernetes autoscaling, observability, and SLOs. Enable data scientists with standardized, production-ready workflows and collaborate across ML, engineering, and operations teams.

Lead and mentor a senior backend platform team to modernize infrastructure, standardize Java architecture, improve deployment and CI/CD, drive observability, enforce engineering best practices, manage delivery and reliability, and recruit engineering talent to support the platform roadmap.

Lead and mentor senior backend engineers and principals to modernize platform infrastructure. Own technical roadmap, drive Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption, improve CI/CD and observability, enforce engineering best practices, remove blockers, recruit talent, and collaborate cross-functionally to improve reliability, scalability, and developer velocity.

Operate and support production infrastructure: triage tickets, run incident response and RCAs, monitor performance using observability tools, maintain backups and runbooks, automate tasks with scripting, support cloud, containers, IaC, participate in on-call rotation, and contribute to longer-term platform improvements and capacity planning.

Lead and own mobile design direction across multiple apps and teams, set UX/UI standards and design systems, run discovery and planning, influence roadmap with product, design native iOS/Android experiences (including resizability and foldables), integrate mobile AI features, and raise the craft and output quality of other app designers.

Lead KAYAK's app acquisition and lifecycle marketing strategy across CRM, paid acquisition, ASO, and web-to-app journeys. Own measurement, attribution, and optimization frameworks, run experiments, set targets/forecasts, and build a high-performing global team while partnering with Product, Engineering, Analytics, and regional marketing to drive installs, activation, retention, and LTV.