Product Manager III, Recommendations Platform

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Product Manager III, Recommendations Platform

Introduction to the Team

The Product Team creates high-quality end-to-end experiences for travelers, partners, and Expedia Group. Our focus on customer-centric innovation enables us to develop products that build loyalty and repeat business. We partner closely with teams across Expedia Group to drive growth and achieve results for our customers and the company.

Search and Recommendations Domain team powers search for BEX, HCOM, and Vrbo from first keystroke to final choice, reducing friction with intelligent forms, typeahead, and natural language–driven ranking and recommendations while optimizing traveler value, booking quality, and conversion in balance with monetization and marketplace needs.

Make an impact!

You will join the Search and Recommendations Domain team, which powers the recommendation experiences travelers see across Expedia, Hotels.com and Vrbo. Recommendations are one of the largest direct-revenue surfaces we run and they appear in nearly every part of the product. You will own the recommendations platform that powers the experiences across every line of business, including setting strategic direction on how to scale capabilities. The measure of success is how scalable the platform is and client adoption.

In this role, you will:

• Sets strategic direction of the recommendations platform including recs console working with experiences product counterparts and internal stakeholders.
• Own the console use to configure recommendations, and the strategy for making that configuration steadily faster and easier, including growing adoption among the teams who depend on it.
• Define the metrics and experiment plan for recommendation quality, run the reviews against them, and decide what action to take on the insights.
• Own roadmap of recommendations models and capabilities to ensure it meets the requirements of stakeholders and can scale with changing business needs.
• Work with machine learning science, engineering, machine learning engineering to deliver capabilities with defined quality guardrails.

Experience and Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; or equivalent related professional experience
• 5 or more years of product management experience, including ownership of a platform or capability that other teams built on top of
• Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to scaled adoption
• Data fluency, including proficiency with experimentation tooling and the data analysis used to design and evaluate tests
• Experience with machine learning backed products such as ranking or recommendation systems

Preferred qualifications

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools or workflows, and with applying machine learning concepts to real world products
• Experience with configurable or low-code platforms where internal teams are your customer alongside the traveler
• Experience trading organic relevance against paid or promoted placement, or a comparable commercial tension

Location expectations

This role is based in Seattle, Washington only.

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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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.