Job Description

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.Why Join Us?To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a global hybrid work setup (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. Wexe2x80x99re building a more open world. Join us.Director, Software Development EngineeringIntroduction to teamWe are the Distribution and Supply team at Expedia. We own Pricing, Inventory, Reservation and Offers. We delight our Travellers with great prices for any travel (hotel, vacation rental, air, cars, packages and cruises), and support them to reserve and manage their experience. We own the unified technical systems that perform these functions, and handle trillions of events that deliver this value at Expediaxe2x80x99s global scale. This role leads Pricing for our Traffic Management, Orchestration, and Insights. The role will report into our Senior Director, Pricing and Offers.In this role, you will:Lead the vision and creation of Pricing for our TravellersDeliver new business value through key pricing features, heuristics and machine learning modelsUnify and expand the technical stack between Expediaxe2x80x99s product lines, serving all our Travellers from a single set of data and servicesOwn our Data and Machine Learning strategy, ensuring that systems make automated decisions that for our Travellers, removing risk from our businessMentor and coach our new engineering team in India, helping them establish the architecture direction, quality approach, and implementation guidelinesPartner across multiple business and technical teams (partner technology, media, finance, etc.) to define priorities for our company, and help distill them into 1-3 year programs for your spaceOwn the operations of the team for our Tier 1/2/3 systems, including programs to deprecate and refactor to advance our ability to serve TravellersAn innovator with proven experience in developing new ideas in favor of your customers, with the ability to drive them to completion through a mix of personal effort, team effort and influenceA communicator of complex business and technical concepts, to any stakeholder, with clarity and precisionExperience and qualifications:Bachelorxe2x80x99s degree or masterxe2x80x99s in a related Technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience.Equivalent experience includes: Managed people managers and executing capacity planning/allocation for a team size of 30+.A people manager with experience in building and scaling teams, products and technology.A leader with a customer-focused mindset, able to think first of customers, and to use different perspectives (product features, technology, code, quality, operations, data, analytics and ML) to solve for their needs.A mentor of leaders, managers, and senior engineers, with 5+ years experience helping technical people develop, with proven business results obtained from career influence.A quality-minded person, able to inspire others to define and improve code and operational qualityA communicator of complex business and technical concepts, to any stakeholder, with clarify and precision.Accommodation requestsIf you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the .We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expediaxc2xae, Hotels.comxc2xae, Expediaxc2xae Partner Solutions, Vrboxc2xae, trivagoxc2xae, Orbitzxc2xae, Travelocityxc2xae, Hotwirexc2xae, Wotifxc2xae, ebookersxc2xae, CheapTicketsxc2xae, Expedia Groupxe2x84xa2 Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expertxc2xae, CarRentals.comxe2x84xa2, and Expedia Cruisesxe2x84xa2. xc2xa9 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Groupxe2x80x99s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless youxe2x80x99re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is .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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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