Senior Product Manager, Air Shopping Platform

Expedia Group, Inc.

$173K — $242K *
Consumer Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in product management, with a Bachelors degree (6+ years with a Masters) or equivalent experience.
  • Strong technical aptitude for engaging in architecture and performance trade-offs.
  • Experience collaborating with engineering teams to deliver complex products successfully.
  • Ability to leverage data and analytical thinking for product strategy formulation.
  • Proficient in stakeholder management, with skills to influence alignment effectively.
  • Demonstrated ownership and curiosity, thriving in ambiguous environments.

Responsibilities

  • Own product strategy and roadmap for the Air Shopping metasearch platform.
  • Drive initiatives to enhance traveler acquisition and boost business performance across traffic channels.
  • Define optimization strategies for how flight offers are displayed on external platforms.
  • Partner with marketing to improve spend efficiency and ROI.
  • Collaborate with engineering on system architecture, performance, and scalability decisions.
  • Evaluate trade-offs impacting latency, content freshness, and user experience.
  • Utilize data and customer insights to identify and measure business opportunities.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and their families.
  • Paid time off and wellness programs.
  • Travel reimbursement and discounts, enhancing access to travel experiences.
  • Employee Assistance Program for personal support.
  • IATAN membership, providing industry-related benefits.
Full Job Description
Senior Product Manager, Air Shopping Platform

Introduction to the Team:

At Expedia Group, our Air Shopping team sits at the intersection of traveler experience, airline supply, marketplace economics, and distributed systems at global scale. We are responsible for helping millions of travelers discover the right flight options while optimizing the complex ecosystem of airline content, pricing, availability, and customer acquisition.

This team owns key capabilities that power Expedia's presence across major metasearch and demand-generation channels, including platforms such as Google Flights, Skyscanner, Kayak, and other strategic traffic sources. We partner closely with Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Analytics, and Airline Supply teams to ensure travelers see compelling, relevant flight offers while balancing marketplace dynamics, content costs, latency, conversion, and profitability.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will have the opportunity to directly influence how travelers discover and shop for flights, while shaping the technical and business strategy of one of Expedia Group's most impactful air-commerce platforms

In This Role, You Will:

  • Own product strategy, roadmap, and execution for Expedia Group's Air Shopping metasearch platform and customer acquisition ecosystem.


  • Drive initiatives that improve traveler acquisition, qualified traffic volume, conversion, and overall business performance across external traffic channels.


  • Define and optimize how Expedia flight offers are surfaced on metasearch platforms, search engines, and other high-scale acquisition channels.


  • Partner with Marketing teams to optimize spend efficiency, return on investment, customer quality, and traffic economics.


  • Work closely with Engineering to make informed decisions around search architecture, content retrieval strategies, caching approaches, performance optimization, and system scalability.


  • Evaluate trade-offs between latency, content freshness, search costs, airline connectivity models, coverage, and customer experience.


  • Develop deep understanding of airline content economics, fare distribution models, supplier relationships, and shopping funnel performance.


  • Use data, experimentation, and customer insights to identify opportunities, validate hypotheses, and measure business impact.


  • Influence cross-functional stakeholders to align priorities, balance competing objectives, and drive execution against shared outcomes.


  • Establish clear product goals, success metrics, and accountability mechanisms across multiple teams.


  • Partner with airline, marketplace, and platform teams to improve offer visibility, content quality, pricing competitiveness, and shopping performance.


  • Shape the long-term Air Shopping vision and contribute to an 18-month roadmap that advances Expedia Group's air-commerce strategy.


  • Navigate ambiguity, evolving priorities, and complex dependencies while maintaining strong delivery momentum.


Minimum Qualifications:

  • 8+ years of relevant professional experience in product management with a bachelors, 6+ years with a Masters, or equivalent related professional experience.


  • Strong technical aptitude with the ability to engage deeply on architecture, platform design, scalability, APIs, and performance trade-offs.


  • Proven experience partnering closely with engineering teams to deliver complex products and drive measurable business outcomes.


  • Demonstrated ability to use data, experimentation, and analytical thinking to inform product strategy and prioritization.


  • Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence and drive alignment without direct authority.


  • Exceptional ownership, bias for action, curiosity, and ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments.


Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in airline shopping, travel technology, flight distribution, metasearch, or online travel marketplaces.


  • Deep understanding of airline economics, supplier connectivity models, fare content, distribution costs, and marketplace dynamics.


  • Experience with large-scale consumer products, high-volume search systems, pricing platforms, or transactional marketplaces.


  • Strong understanding of traffic acquisition, performance marketing, and customer acquisition economics.


  • Demonstrated ability to evaluate and communicate complex business and technical trade-offs across multiple stakeholders.


  • Track record of influencing technical strategy and earning credibility with senior engineering and cross-functional leaders.


The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

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