Role Summary

We believe travel is a force for good, and our mission is to power global travel for everyone, everywhere. Our mobile apps are essential in delivering seamless, personalized travel experiences to millions of travelers worldwide. As we continue to expand, we’re seeking an established people leader to drive our mobile app’s growth and retention (MAU). Our goal is to build out a best-in-class team of engineers, passionate about developing a centralized platform that could be maximized for providing contextually relevant recommendations and notifications for partners and travelers on Expedia Group across both Web and App. Together, building the future of the organization by solving sophisticated business ideas with state of the art technology.

Who you are:
A People leader who will lead a larger team of engineers (~6-10 people) or smaller teams of the approximately similar size. Delivers work for defined domains and expands scope and feature set for those areas. Collaborates with management and product to balance the needs of team wellbeing, features, and system maintenance and operation.
Experience
8+ years for Bachelor's
6+ years for Master's
People Management
3+ years
Education
• Recruits at least 5 engineers to own team.
• Performance manages at least 3 individual contributors.
• Executes capacity planning/allocation of +10 team size.
• Manages individuals in different locations.
Functional/ Technical Skills
• Is strong in multiple technologies or languages.
• Justifies technology choices to technical and non technical observers.
• Responsible for multiple technical domains.
• Makes well defined technology choices.
• Mentors team members.
• Works with multiple teams.
• Rewards and recognizes multiple teams.
• Mentors individual contributors as well as managers on team
• Defines teams goals and how they fit a business need across multiple teams working together.
• Delivers solutions to business problems spanning teams.
• Delivers and influences product roadmap, working in collaboration with product team.

What you'll do:
Role Expectations
• Anticipates and recognizes bottlenecks in work processes between teams and makes suggestions for ongoing improvement.
• Leads implementation teams and ensures the successful execution of new ideas or approaches.
• Coordinates with team to define the measures of success for process improvements.
• Develops product phase-out planning in line with the product roadmap.
• Determines different phase milestones and priorities in collaboration with product management peers.
• Extends outside of direct organization and collaborate with peers across a senior level organization.
• Partners with the business to have a clear understanding of how the technology stack is tied to business outcomes and our bottom line.
• Tests and maintains software applications and related programs and procedures by using a variety of software development tools following design requirements of customer.
• Acts as a spokesperson for software design best practices.
• Researches and recommends frameworks and architectural/code design patterns.
• Identifies areas of improvements within the code and suggests solutions.
• Advocates for operational excellence (such as unit testing, establishing SLAs, programming for resiliency and scalability).
• Has broad knowledge of the entire product, and can help with any component, or type of issues.
• Is versed/has up-to-date knowledge in EG's languages, frameworks, cloud services, toolkits, methodologies.
• Gains insight into how customers utilize technology for their competitive advantage and applies this knowledge to suggest areas for improvement.
• Conveys the right information to the correct parties to ensure that proposals for improvements are given the proper consideration and technical issues are resolved in a timely manner.
• Contributes to product development by identifying industry change, listening to customer needs, capturing feedback and communicating that feedback to the business.
• Remains informed on industry trends. Examines inefficiencies in the existing stack operation and encourages engineers to improve them.
• Bridges the gap in discussions between technology and non-technology personnel. Reports on team status faithfully and listens for suggestions to improve lagging project work.
• Reviews the skill and expertise requirements to accomplish team goals and identifies staffing and talent resources to fill project roles.
• Develops action plans for optimal resource utilization and manages resource usage among team.
• Encourages others to assess the potential impact of resource decisions related to efficiency and cost reduction.
• Ensures optimal Full Time Employee to contingent worker ratios are maintained on team.
• Guides Individual Contributors and Managers in the development of team and individual goals, providing regular and specific feedback, and assessing individual and team performance.
• Encourages and supports education and professional development of Individual Contributors and Managers.
• Mentors Individual Contributors and Managers by providing advice and recommendations based on own experience.
• Shares domain and Industry knowledge between cross-functional teams.
• Evaluates the full complement of team talent, identifies gaps, and implements action plans to fill gaps and drive achievement of goals.

The total cash range for this position in San Francisco is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $295,000.00, 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.

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. 

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. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.