Technical Product Manager II

Introduction to the team

Private Label Solutions (PLS) is the B2B arm of Expedia Group. We bring Expedia Group’s innovative technology and distribution solutions to partners across the world. These businesses include global financial institutions, corporate managed travel, offline travel agents, global travel suppliers (like major airlines) and many more.

We are looking for a Technical Product Manager II to join the B2B team, responsible for developing technology that helps millions of travelers to find the best hotel, flights, car rentals, and activities at the right time for their next unforgettable trip.

We believe that great changes begin with individuals who are given the freedom to make a difference, and we champion this within the Expedia Business to Business Engineering team. We have a passion for exploration and a keen focus on getting better every single day, and we aren't afraid to try new things and learn from our mistakes.

In this role, you will be leading highly visible projects across multiple engineering teams in the B2B side of Expedia Group. This includes analyzing requirements, and defining use cases and system interactions, as well as timely and clear communication. You are not only a technology enthusiast but also an experienced Agile practitioner. 

In this role, you will:

• Operate as the Agile Product Owner for an Agile team, building and owning product backlog

• Accountable for technical product delivery for cross functional projects for multiple delivery teams while driving team velocity

• Conduct business analysis on proposed improvements to our products, including review, forecasting, and planning for measurement and reporting

• Seek and consolidate product feedback to help in the prioritization of engineering effort and story planning

• Facilitate trade-off decisions between investment, schedule, and customer benefit

• Build collaborative relationships with engineering teams and leaderships across different brands in Expedia Group, including providing input into their roadmaps

• Capture detailed business opportunities from internal clients and turn them into the epics and stories that set the direction for engineering teams

• Promote thinking about the why and what of new features and products

• Evaluate third-party product capabilities and arrange integration where it makes sense

Experience and qualifications:

• Professional experience in a technical domain including engineering, design, and coding

• Ability to communicate persuasively, build strong-relationships, and collaborate with key team members and peers 

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to present complex concepts to highly engineering and non-engineering stakeholders

• Full product line life cycle management experience, including user acceptance testing, launch, and end of life processes

• Ability to lead teams through issue resolution and risk management

• Expand our skills in building highly scalable solutions, while influencing others and raising the bar on the overall level of excellence within the team

• Work in an environment where sophisticated, clean, maintainable code is favored

• Share our knowledge with each other and learn new things

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