Senior Product Manager, Search Intent

Expedia Group • New York, NY

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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. Senior Product Manager, Search Intent Introduction to the Team: We’re building the next-generation lodging search experience used by millions across Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo. We’re looking for a strategic and collaborative Senior Product Manager to shape how travelers express intent and discover the right stay. You’ll define and deliver experience systems that make search intuitive, trustworthy, and personalized to ensure that travelers find the property for them quickly and confidently. This strategic role demands a deep understanding of UX best practices for AI-powered experiences, the ability to align varied stakeholders behind a vision, and a user-centric, innovative mindset. It will be highly visible and offers the potential to influence end-to-end experiences across all Expedia Group brands.

Requirements

• 7+ years of product management experience, with expertise in consumer-facing UX and 2-sided marketplaces.
• Direct experience with AI-driven features and their impact on user expectations.
• Proven track record driving product vision, influencing cross-functional teams, and driving measurable outcomes in ambiguous environments.

Nice To Haves

• Strong collaboration skills with UX design, research, engineering, and data analytics.
• Strong data fluency and ability to interpret behavioral metrics.
• You have an insatiable curiosity to learn about users and what makes them tick.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI and ML capabilities into intuitive, trustworthy, and delightful experiences for travelers
• Collaborate with PMs for Query Understanding and Semantic Search to shape and deliver the AI Search strategy
• Define and deliver configurable UX patterns and frameworks that support high-quality, differentiated search experiences across multiple brands.
• Partner with UX design and research to validate usability and desirability of search experiences.
• Drive platform scalability and flexibility, enabling brand-level customization without bespoke development.
• Be on top of industry trends in AI search, UX, personalization, and conversational interfaces and use that knowledge to spark innovation.
• Advocate for technical excellence and responsible AI practices in user-facing experiences.
• Influence product strategy and investment decisions based on business impact, experience quality and platform leverage.
• 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.
• Be an active contributor and participant to team culture.
• Mentor more junior product managers.

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, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey
• medical/dental/vision
• paid time off
• Employee Assistance Program
• wellness & travel reimbursement
• travel discounts
• International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees