Technical Program Manager III

Expedia•Springfield, MO

About The Position

Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry with its technology, supply, and services. The Technical Program Manager III drives complex technical projects across the organization, coordinating engineering, product, business, and partner teams to establish delivery plans and identify and mitigate risks. The role requires technical fluency and strong program management, communication, and stakeholder skills, including the ability to bring structure to ambiguity, influence without direct authority, and adapt delivery practices to project needs. The role leads technical programs across multiple teams, systems, and organizational boundaries, translating business objectives into measurable project plans and outcomes. It supports software and product development from planning and requirements through delivery, launch, and adoption; manages budgets, status, risks, dependencies, and stakeholder communications; and improves workflows and delivery predictability using data, feedback, and retrospectives.

Requirements

4–6 years of relevant experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 3+ years with a master’s degree, in technical program management, project management, software delivery, product development, or a related discipline.
Experience leading medium-to-complex technical programs across multiple teams, including scope, milestones, dependencies, risks, budget, and success metrics.
Working knowledge of the software development lifecycle, Agile and traditional delivery methods, and Agile engineering practices.
Technical fluency across system architecture, APIs, data flows, cloud platforms, dependencies, and operational readiness.
Ability to use data and metrics to track delivery health, guide prioritization, identify risks, and improve processes.
Strong planning, organization, problem-solving, systems-thinking, and risk-management skills.
Ability to align stakeholders, facilitate tradeoff decisions, build trust, and influence without direct authority.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex technical and business information for different audiences.

Nice To Haves

Experience supporting platform, infrastructure, cloud modernization, data, cybersecurity, developer productivity, or customer-facing technology projects.
Experience working in a global, matrixed, or highly regulated environment.
Familiarity with Jira, Confluence, or equivalent project management tools.

Responsibilities

Lead increasingly complex technical projects across multiple teams, systems, and organizational boundaries.
Translate business objectives into project goals, requirements, schedules, milestones, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
Define timeframes, prioritize work, identify resource needs, and recommend people, technology, and partners.
Monitor progress against milestones, timelines, specifications, requirements, and budget.
Create, track, and report on project budgets and delivery status.
Identify risks and dependencies, lead mitigation planning, and escalate issues with clear recommendations.
Keep stakeholders informed of progress, decisions, tradeoffs, and schedule changes.
Facilitate stakeholder alignment and coordinate solutions to issues.
Apply Agile or traditional delivery methods as appropriate, and lead and mentor others through Agile ceremonies.
Support software and product development lifecycles from planning and requirements through delivery, launch, and adoption.
Identify process bottlenecks and opportunities to simplify workflows, reuse patterns, and improve efficiency across organizational boundaries.
Use data, feedback, and retrospectives to evaluate process changes and improve delivery predictability.
Build stakeholder trust by understanding business challenges, addressing concerns, and communicating a compelling rationale for decisions.