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Product Manager III
A high performing individual contributor whose role is pivotal in shaping innovative travel products, aligning with strategic business objectives, and satisfying customer needs. In this role an individual will collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to ensure our products are at the forefront of the travel industry. Your efforts will focus on integrating advanced AI/ML technologies, conducting rigorous market analysis, and leading product direction with data-driven insights to maintain Expedia's competitive edge in the travel market.
What You Will Do
- Organizes the strategic vision into key themes that solve for both short-term and long-term business & customer requirements
- Takes a lead role in detailing a strategic plan to achieve key themes and milestones, using a compelling narrative to tell the story of the roadmap
- Facilitates tradeoff decisions with engineering teams to ensure a financially viable product that solves for customer need
- Facilitates integration of AI/ML into product functionality, leveraging an understanding of model development processes (data collection and processing, model training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring)
- Leverages understanding of technical architecture to ensure decisions meet product requirements and adjusts designs to account for dependent systems
- Applies understanding of EG's structure and key players to identify potential product strategy dependencies
- Balances short-term and long-term business considerations with product decisions and is able to partner with finance to set incremental revenue targets
- Drives business innovation within the product portfolio
- References detailed market research, including customer segmentation, market sizing, and competitive analyses, as relevant to the product
- Clearly defines the product's market value proposition through competitive analysis and/or understanding of customer pain points
- Develops testable hypotheses that relate industry and market trends to product performance
- Identifies friction within the customer journey and recommends customer-centric experience solutions and features to address
- Facilitates alignment between engineering and design teams by ensuring product goals are clearly articulated and visually represented
- Creates product experiments and interprets results in partnership with UX Designers
- Defines new metrics and new data sources to support continuous product improvement; drives monthly metrics reviews
- Independently designs product experiments, gathers and analyzes product data, draws insights, and makes informed product decisions; requests support from Data Analytics teams as necessary to support decision-making
- Builds effective product metric dashboards tailored to audience need that enable ongoing cross-functional decision-making and are useful for metric reviews
- Effectively prioritizes initiatives & features based on a comprehensive understanding of business strategy & market dynamics while leveraging a data-informed approach using pre-defined criteria
- Owns product requirements documentation leveraging EG standard toolkit and guides development of detailed user stories
- Collaborates to develop the engineering task breakdown of user stories to meet business and customer need; identifies and manages key dependencies
- Develops ability to influence without authority and to manage expectations; earns trust and credibility with peer leaders
- Encourages the team to achieve operational excellence by serving as an inspirational & motivational force
- Effectively communicates and influences up and down within the organization; uses analysis and team work to craft a relevant story that is meaningful to the audience
- A proven track record of clearly and persuasively articulating product concepts, strategies, and decisions to cross-functional teams and customers
Who You Are
- Bachelor's or Master's or equivalent experience. 5+ years experience for Bachelor's degree or 3+ years experience for Master
- Agile practices
- Experience with AL/ML
- Good communication and listening skills
- Knowledge of Data science principles
- Scientific method
- Reverse engineering
- Understand and know the business acumen
- Abiility to Influence others
- Risk taking
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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