Overview
In Expedia Group’s Search Product & Optimization team, you own the bidding platform end-to-end and drive autonomous, data-driven optimization. You’ll shape the strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for bidding across search, metasearch, and performance channels. You define transparent decision-making, monitoring, and scalability to build trust with partners. You collaborate with scientists, engineers, and marketing leaders to balance innovation, stability, and platform health. This role offers measurable impact on long-term business value in a fast-paced auctions environment.
Pay / Benefits
- medical, dental, and vision coverage
- paid time off
- Employee Assistance Program
- wellness and travel reimbursement
- travel discounts
- IATAN membership
Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market for bidding platform across search, metasearch, and performance channels
- Lead development of autonomous bidding system with target-aware models, control systems, elasticity measurement, and partner connectivity
- Define how bidding decisions are made, executed, and monitored with transparent, auditable, scalable product experiences
- Partner with scientists, engineers, marketing leaders, and other stakeholders to balance innovation, production stability, and platform health
- Establish metrics and operating cadences to measure bidding performance, reliability, adoption, and operational efficiency, translating insights into priorities
- Use systems thinking and storytelling to align leaders on complex problems, build feedback loops in releases and migrations, and improve performance at scale
Key requirements
- 7+ years of product management experience owning technical or platform products end-to-end, including strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market planning
- Advanced understanding of machine learning and marketing technology; ability to partner with scientists and engineers on optimization, experimentation, elasticity, orchestration, and algorithm-driven decision systems
- Deep data-driven approach with ability to define metrics, interpret relationships, and translate analysis into product decisions
- Systems thinker with ability to work across functions to define complex problem spaces and measure impact across an interconnected ecosystem
- Influential communicator with interest in advertising technology, bidding markets, auctions, automation, and decision systems; comfortable operating in ambiguity
- systems thinking
- cross-functional collaboration
- data-driven decision making
- machine learning in marketing tech
- optimization and experimentation
- elasticity and orchestration of decision systems
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