Introduction to the Team:

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere. Millions of travelers rely on us to compare options, evaluate value, and choose the trip that is right for them. As expectations for digital commerce rise, we are modernizing how travelers discover, compare and understand their choices.

As a Director of Product Management, Merchandising, you will be part of a high-impact product team that sits at the intersection of technology, data, customer experience, and commerce. Expedia Group hosts the broadest offering in the travel industry, including 3 million+ properties and 500+ airlines. Your mission will be to define and deliver the merchandising frameworks and retail foundations that shape how millions of travelers around the world engage with our inventory and offers. You'll work with a diverse peer group across engineering, marketing, design, analytics, data science, pricing, and brand organizations, making your mark on experiences used across multiple brands and global markets.

In This Role You Will:

• Define the merchandising strategy for how inventory, offers, and product attributes are presented across Expedia Group.

• Lead the roadmap for ranking, sorting, filters, badging, product attributes, and offer presentation.

• Build scalable systems that support automated decisioning and real-time context.

• Establish merchandising patterns and governance that create consistency where it matters and allow brands to differentiate where they should.

• Drive experimentation to improve relevance, clarity, and conversion.

• Partner with pricing and supply teams to ensure transparent and consistent offer presentation.

• Work with design and research to simplify complex decisions and improve product understanding.

• Align teams across retail, platform, design, and brand organizations on shared merchandising principles.

• Build strong partnerships with engineering to ensure predictable, high-quality platform delivery.

• Coach and develop product managers to bring clarity, rigor, and strong judgment to high-volume retail work.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management experience, with leadership roles in ecommerce or merchandising.

• Experience owning high-volume retail or shopping experiences.

• Strong understanding of ranking, relevance, discovery, and experimentation.

• Experience leading cross-functional teams across engineering, design, analytics, pricing, and supply.

• Strong data fluency and experience using experimentation and insights to guide decisions.

• Ability to create clear, structured product roadmaps in complex retail systems.

• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience building or scaling platforms that support multiple products or surfaces, including services, data flows, and configuration models.

• Technical fluency and ease working with engineering on system design, APIs, experimentation, and end-to-end platform behavior.

• Background in merchandising systems, pricing clarity, retail logic, or dynamic content models.

• Familiarity with machine learning and how ML-driven signals such as ranking, relevance, or recommendations improve retail outcomes.

• Experience designing for multi-brand or multi-market environments where shared components and standards drive consistency.