Director, Product Management - Merchandising

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 we know 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.

Director of Product Management, Merchandising

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.

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 e-commerce 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, 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.

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 membership.

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, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify.

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