Senior Director, Flights Engineering

Priceline • Norwalk, CT

12d • Hybrid

About The Position

This role is eligible for our hybrid work model: 2 days in-office. Our Technology team is the backbone of our company: constantly creating, testing, learning and iterating to better meet the needs of our customers. If you thrive in a fast-paced, ideas-led environment, you’re in the right place. Why this job’s a big deal: As one of our leaders, you’ll have a big impact on our products and their technical direction, as well as influence the company's technical strategy. You will also have a big impact on your team members, their day-to-day experience on our team and their growth over time. To continuously deliver on our goal to be the best travel deal makers in the world for millions of our customers, we need to have well designed technology that is reliable, performs well, and allows for the continuous improvements we make to our products, and we also need to have teams that feel engaged, productive, empowered, and sustainable. All of this requires talented leaders with the right mix of technical, collaborative, management, and leadership skills and values.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science or related field.
• 15+ years of experience in software engineering and development.
• 5+ years experience in leading software development teams.
• Proven track record managing a mix of people-managers and senior ICs, overseeing an org of 20+ across multiple teams
• B2C, e-commerce, or OTA experience, ideally with a strong experimentation culture; travel industry experience a plus
• Skilled at hiring, coaching, and developing engineering leaders, including performance management of managers
• Experience operating across global, cross-functional teams and managing competing priorities through organizational change
• Proven collaboration skills with both technical and less-technical colleagues.
• Experience with developing on Cloud, especially GCP and AWS.
• Strong system-architecture fluency, with comfort partnering deeply on technical decisions
• Illustrated history of living the values necessary to Priceline: Customer, Innovation, Team, Accountability and Trust.
• Unquestionable integrity and ethics is essential.

Nice To Haves

• travel industry experience a plus

Responsibilities

• Lead and be responsible for a software development teams that owns the services that power Priceline’s Flight Shopping Platform
• Serve as a leader of leaders, scaling delivery and cross-functional execution through your teams
• Drive technology strategy, operational backbone, and system architecture decisions across the flights domain
• Lead adoption of AI/agentic engineering practices to accelerate shopping-experience innovation
• Own the multi-team roadmap and partner with Product Group Engineering leads, flight commercial stakeholders, and cross-functional peers to set priorities and long-term technical direction
• Manage and coach talented managers and engineers of all levels of experience.
• Have influence on what we build, how we build, and how we work.
• Participate in various formal and/or grass-roots technical and non-technical communities at Priceline.
• Become part of a team and organization that is passionate about our work, but values a healthy work/life balance.

Benefits

• Health & wellness coverage including medical, dental, vision, and mental health resources
• Generous time off including PTO, holidays, a company-wide Priceline Pause reset week, and paid volunteer days
• Work/life support including the ability to work up to 4 weeks per year from anywhere, parental leave, dependent care and family support resources, Summer Fridays, and office perks like stocked kitchens and catered meals (varies by location)
• Financial security programs such as retirement plans with company contributions, life and disability coverage, and tax-advantaged accounts
• Signature travel perks including employee-only discounts on hotels and flights, VIP deals, and Big Deal Bucks credits
• Additional perks & discounts like travel and partner discounts, tuition support, legal support, and pet benefits
• A people-first culture with Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), social events, recognition programs, and service awards that help you connect, grow, and celebrate together

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director