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Technical Program Manager - III, Media Solutions

Expedia Group Media Solutions, a global travel advertising platform, offers industry expertise and digital marketing solutions that allow brands to reach, engage and influence their qualified audience of travellers around the world. Through its vast network of leading travel brands and global points of sale, Expedia Group Media Solutions provides marketing partners with proprietary data-driven insights about traveler behaviours during every stage of the purchase journey, along with dynamic advertising solutions, to deliver strategic campaigns and measurable results.

Our travel advertising platform is evolving quickly, and we need a strong Technical Program Manager to help build and deliver the next generation Ad platform.

Are you passionate about Travel and Technology? Does building the foundation of a highly scalable Travel Ad Platform connecting marketers with hundreds of millions of travellers globally excite you? Are you a natural problem solver who loves a fast-paced environment driven by a strong business impact? Do you enjoy bringing structure to ambiguous problems?

If so, here is an excellent opportunity for you and we will love to hear from you. We are seeking a Technical Program Manager who can help deliver a game changing Ad platform and play a pivotal role in driving programs and roadmap by collaborating across teams, organizations, and global locations.

What you'll do:

• Deliver business results to delight our customers i.e., focus on customer success

• Coordinate bringing together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contribute your own suggestions

• Work closely with key partners in executing the product vision for multiple work streams. This includes internal/external Engineering teams, Product Management, and other internal functional teams

• Be involved in various stages of the product development lifecycle from idea generation to bringing a product to market by supporting the different phases and improving product performance

• Guide and lead the organization through program delivery and outcomes

• Assist with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for

• Lead increasingly complex technical projects with some supervised work on ambiguous adaptive programs

• Lead proactive risk management, working with the team to anticipate new risks and mitigation planning

• Provide architectural and design input, with ability to dive deep into technical details as required

• Working with multiple teams on Conception/Design/Development, with end-to-end oversight of on time delivery with high quality

• Consider and understand the audience’s specific needs and comprehension level to determine the most appropriate message and delivery method, limiting or explaining technical language

Who you are:

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MS or other related advanced degree preferred

• 6+ years of experience in Technical Program Management

• 4+ years of experience running technology-related programs delivering platform solutions using agile development techniques across distributed teams

• Experience in Advertising is preferred

• Capability to quickly grasp business context & execute with strategic approaches

• Work with stakeholders, product, and tech leaders across multiple teams to build roadmaps for each of the Phases and enable delivery.

• Effectively handle trade-offs between cost, schedule, and customer benefit; and provide technical direction and guidance

• Ability to build a deep knowledge of the Ad Platform Tech Stack and meaningful dependencies

• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and development practices

• Strong leadership, negotiation, and execution skills with the ability to influence multi-functional teams and key decision maker; drive results, deliver, and excel

• Being big picture focused while skilled at zeroing in on the product and engineering details and delivering continuous improvement

• Engage and partner with teams to drive improvements to performance, scalability, and tech health

• Proactively contributes to cross team collaboration and leads alignment of work with broader initiatives

• Ability to navigate a rapidly changing landscape, while handling multiple responsibilities

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills with the ability to tailor messaging to audience and filter relevant communication

• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group (NASDAQ: EXPE) powers travel for everyone, everywhere through our global platform. Driven by the core belief that travel is a force for good, we help people experience the world in new ways and build lasting connections. We provide industry-leading technology solutions to fuel partner growth and success, while facilitating memorable experiences for travelers. Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Vrbo®, trivago®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Hotwire®, Wotif®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Expedia Group™ Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert®, CarRentals.com™, and Expedia Cruises™.

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