Principal Product Manager- Search Platform
About The Position
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 know that 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. Principal Product Manager – Lodging Search Platform Introduction to the Team: We’re looking for a visionary Principal Product Manager to lead the Search Platform for Lodging Search at Expedia Group. This highly influential individual contributor will architect the future of semantic search and ranking infrastructure across our lodging ecosystem. You’ll drive platform capabilities that power personalized, high-performance search experiences across global brands like Expedia.com, Hotels.com and Vrbo. This strategic leadership role demands deep technical fluency, cross-functional collaboration, and a bold vision for scalable, ML-powered systems that elevate travel discovery worldwide.
Requirements
- 10+ years of product management experience, with deep expertise in ecommerce search infrastructure, ML-powered systems, and semantic search or equivalent experience
- Proven success in building platforms that support large-scale, high-traffic consumer experiences.
- Strong technical fluency in search architecture, ML model lifecycle, and API design.
- Experience working with ecommerce search, ranking systems, or recommendation engines.
Nice To Haves
- Ability to influence across engineering, data science, and design teams.
- Strategic thinker with a bias for action and a passion for solving complex problems.
- Experience in travel, marketplaces, or personalization platforms.
- Experience with multimodal search, vector search, or retrieval-augmented generation (RAG).
Responsibilities
- Own the Lodging Search Platform roadmap, with focus on semantic search and search ranking.
- Define and deliver platform capabilities that support high-quality, personalized search experiences across brands.
- Collaborate with ML teams to productionize models for relevance, ranking, and semantic understanding.
- Partner with Search Experience and Recommendations teams to ensure seamless orchestration and API design.
- Drive platform scalability, performance, and configurability across global markets.
- Monitor industry trends in areas like semantic search, vector search, and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) to spark innovation
- Advocate for technical excellence, including model lifecycle management, tech debt reduction, and responsible AI practices
- Mentor PMs and contribute to building a world-class Search Platform team
- Influence product strategy and investment decisions based on business impact and platform leverage
- Leverage deep understanding of data analytics and ML to identify opportunities that enhance customer experience
- Resolve escalations across workstreams to ensure alignment with broader product strategy and vision
- Build clear requirements in ambiguous and complex scenarios requiring negotiation across multiple teams
- Demonstrate ability to align and influence stakeholders beyond the product team and positively impact department-level strategy
- Contribute to a culture of inclusivity, respect, and continuous improvement
Benefits
- 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
- medical/dental/vision
- paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- wellness & travel reimbursement
- travel discounts
- International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Principal
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
