Layla AI - Talent Community (Expedia Group)

Expedia•San Jose, CA

1d•$173,000 - $299,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Join the Layla AI Talent Community at Expedia Group. Layla is an AI travel company that plans real trips, including flights, hotels, and activities, in minutes. It also builds Bellboy, an AI hotel search product. Founded in 2023, Layla has developed innovative conversational AI travel planning experiences. Expedia Group acquired Layla in July 2026 to accelerate its AI-native trip planning and booking strategy. Layla operates as a standalone product and an independent innovation arm, combining startup speed with Expedia Group's marketplace, supply, and resources. This offers candidates the pace, ownership, and impact of an early-stage team with the platform, stability, and reach of Expedia Group. The company is hiring across engineering, data, travel operations, and marketing, with specific roles in AI Agent & Orchestration, Backend Platform & Supply, Search Data & Personalization, Frontend Engineering, Mobile Engineering, Data Analytics, Travel Sales, Trip Curation, Trip Facilitation, and Creator Partnerships.

Requirements

Background and interests in AI, travel, engineering, data, operations, or marketing.
Passion for reinventing how people plan and book travel.
Ability to own a scope and ship products.
Willingness to make decisions based on data and experiments.
Proficiency in using AI tooling daily.
Ability to provide direct feedback and operate with low politics.
Willingness to fix broken processes or systems.

Nice To Haves

Experience in AI travel planning and booking.
Experience with conversational AI.
Experience with AI hotel search products.
Experience in a startup environment.
Experience working in a large, global travel company.

Responsibilities

Define the next generation of AI-powered trip planning and booking.
Plan real trips, including flights, hotels, activities, and day-by-day details.
Build AI hotel search products.
Develop innovative conversational AI travel planning experiences.
Operate with startup speed while leveraging Expedia Group's marketplace, supply, and resources.
Own a surface, ship it, and see the effect on real travelers and real revenue.
Run experiments, read numbers together, and change minds based on data.
Use AI tooling daily in every function.
Provide direct feedback, operate with low politics, and make fast decisions.
Fix what is broken.
Accelerate Expedia Group's AI-native trip planning and booking strategy.
Support travelers worldwide through AI-powered trip planning and booking.