Product Manager III - Checkout Platform
Job details
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 flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.
Introduction to the team
We are hiring a technical, data-driven and customer-obsessed Product Manager III to own the roadmap for Brand Expedia’s checkout, with a focus on Packages (e.g., Flight + Hotel), Cars, and Activities product lines. The Checkout team owns one of the most critical steps in the user journey, shaping how millions of travelers can book their trips with speed, confidence, and delight.
This is a high-impact individual contributor role focused on driving business growth, funnel and platform performance, and regulatory compliance in a complex, cross-functional environment.
What you’ll do
Define product strategy and maintain roadmap for complex product areas, aligning with customer needs, data-driven insights, and Expedia Group’s business goals across multiple domains
Translate business and traveler problems into crisp product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria that engineering and design can execute against
Collaborate across teams and functions to drive end-to-end product delivery. Manage dependencies, risks, and trade-offs to ensure timely, high-quality launches
Run agile rituals (backlog grooming, sprint planning, bug triage) to keep your team unblocked and focused on the highest impact work day-to-day
Use qualitative and quantitative data, and A/B testing to prioritize features, measure product performance, and drive continuous improvements at scale
Own key checkout funnel metrics (e.g., conversion, form completion, error rates). Define targets and drive concrete plans to hit them; course correct as needed
Collaborate closely with Legal/Risk teams to deliver regulatory and policy requirements accurately and on time, without compromising traveler experience
Safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions that improve outcomes, ensuring responsible use of data, monitoring performance, and iterating on features based on measurable impact
Minimum Qualifications:
5+ years for Bachelor’s degree, 3+ years for Master’s in a technical, business, or related field, or equivalent practical experience in product management
Proven experience owning a product or a significant product area end to end, including roadmap development, stakeholder communication, and launch execution
Demonstrated ability to work with engineering, data, and design teams to define technical requirements, understand system and API capabilities, and deliver scalable, reliable products
Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including using data and experimentation to guide product decisions
Preferred Qualifications:
Demonstrated experience taking products from concept to scaled adoption, including discovery, implementation, launch, and post-launch analytics and optimizations.
Experience leading product strategy and execution for products operating at significant scale, using experimentation frameworks, metrics, and dashboards to drive performance
Experience in online travel, e-commerce, payments, checkout, or transaction experiences
Proven ability to define and evolve product architectures and platform capabilities in partnership with engineering, ensuring products are extensible, secure, and performant across multiple domains
Track record of driving operational excellence for products, including defining SLAs, improving reliability and quality, and using data-driven insights to optimize processes and user experiences
Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.
Accommodation requests
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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.
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