Sr. Product Manager Job in Expedia Group

Senior Product Manager

Are you exploring new challenges in a fast-paced environment that offers the agility of a start-up but with the resources of a multinational?

Have you ever had the opportunity to impact the lives of millions of people in a meaningful way and help them enjoy time away with their friends and families building memories?

That is what we do here at Vrbo, part of the Expedia Group.

Our mission is to make every holiday rental in the world available to every traveler in the world through our online marketplace.

We're committed to helping families and friends find the perfect holiday rental to create unforgettable travel experiences together.

About the role

We are looking for a highly analytical and hardworking Product Manager to join Vrbos Globalization Acceleration (GX) Product team to drive the delivery of highly impactful customer facing features.

As Product Owner, you'll bring to bear qualitative industry insights alongside our quantitative analytics systems to influence the product strategy and roadmap, produce specifications that unlock the business ability to efficiently capture traveler demand at scale, develop, test, and iterate new features, and work closely with growth marketing, analytics, design and engineering to ensure quality on-time.

Because Vacation Rental is a ground-breaking play in the online travel space, and Googles search index shows it to be one of the fastest growing categories, we are looking for smart product leaders who get stuff done. Vrbo is creating a marketplace that brings value to both travelers and homeowners; by using the scientific method to develop products, your work here will directly and measurably impact our operational scale and revenue.

You have a proven product development attitude and focus on meaningful analytics, be able to grasp concepts quickly, formulate product ideas, and influence business and technical partners in verbal and written forms.

What you will do:

• Establish the product vision, goals, roadmap, priorities, A/B testing strategy and rollout plans for products within the GX portfolio
• Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to product execution
• Proactively engage with multiple departments across the organization (e.g. marketing, analytics, engineering, and data science teams) to gather feedback and requirements, solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
• Drive product development with a team of best-in-class engineers and designers following agile methodologies
• Integrate usability studies, research and market analysis into product requirements
• Define and execute A/B tests that inform the success of products
• Manage trade-offs between cost, schedule, and business benefit, and ensure successful delivery of features in production that meet customer needs
• Understand Vrbos evolving strategic and driven position and deliver products that are recognized as best in the industry

Who you are?

• 10+ years of product optimization: able to interpret data and trends, diagnose problems, and formulate action plans to support decisions.
• Experience managing e-commerce technology products, including proven knowledge of software development methodologies, understanding of typical technology architecture for high volume websites and mobile apps, gathering business requirements and turning them into detailed functional design specifications.
• Passion for data, technology, and innovations in the field of machine learning.
• At par skills (written and verbal); an ability to work with multi-disciplined teams to drive execution against project timelines and results.
• A strong of competency with project management, including issues and risk identification and management, tracking; demonstrated strong attention to detail
• A self-starter who demonstrates initiative and tenacity while working independently. You will grow with challenges and not be deterred by difficult situations. You will work proactively rather than reactively.
• Comfortable with and adaptable to change. We work in an innovative fast growth environment where products and processes evolve rapidly.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, hardworking, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better that responsibility encourages us to continue to be the place where extraordinary people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We passionately strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with modesty and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes.

If you have a hunger to make a difference with one of the most loved consumer brands in the world and to work in the dynamic travel industry, this is the job for you.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Egencia, trivago,Vrbo, Orbitz, Travelocity, Wotif,ebookers,CheapTickets, Hotwire, Expedia Media Solutions, CarRentals.com, Expedia Local Expert, Expedia Cruise andSilverRailTechnologies, Inc. For more information, visit.

About Vrbo:

Vrbo is a world leader in the holiday rental industry with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect beach house, cottage, or apartment for any getaway.

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.