Senior Technical Product Manager, Bidding & Optimization

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.

Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.

Senior Technical Product Manager, Bidding & Optimization

Introduction to the Team

We create and deliver tailored marketing strategies for Expedia Group’s brands, focusing on establishing strong connections and cohesive experiences for travelers and partners. We leverage our functional expertise and creative excellence to build trust and loyalty for our brands through innovative marketing approaches and technology.

Make an impact!

Within Marketing, the Search Product & Optimization team builds the decision systems behind Expedia Group’s performance-marketing investments across Search, Metasearch, and other channels. We are evolving beyond manual bidding toward a more automated system that allocates investment against business goals. In this role, you’ll own the bidding product domain end to end and shape a high-impact platform in close partnership with Product, Data Science, Engineering, and Marketing.

In this role, you will:

• Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and delivery for Expedia Group’s bidding and optimization platform across Search, Metasearch, and other performance channels.
• Translate business goals and financial constraints into product decisions: define what the system should optimize, how it should handle budgets and targets, and how bidding should adapt as performance and market conditions change.
• Partner with Data Science and Engineering to build and evolve production decision systems, including data pipelines, predictive models, optimization logic, partner integrations, execution workflows, and monitoring.
• Guide model and system trade-offs, experimentation, and performance evaluation so decisions are grounded in measurable business impact and the system can improve over time.
• Define the controls, transparency, reliability, and operating practices needed to make automated decisions understandable, trustworthy, and effective at scale.

Experience and Qualifications:

• You have 7+ years of product management experience, including end-to-end ownership of technical or platform products from strategy through production launch and scaled adoption.
• You have built or materially evolved a production product powered by machine learning, optimization, forecasting, or algorithmic decisioning, and can explain how its key components work together.
• You can partner credibly with Data Science and Engineering on system design, data quality, model evaluation, experimentation, integrations, monitoring, and production trade-offs. You do not need to build models yourself, but you are comfortable challenging assumptions and helping teams choose a path.
• You use analytical judgment to frame objectives and constraints, weigh trade-offs, connect product and model metrics to measurable business outcomes, and communicate recommendations clearly while leading cross-functional delivery through ambiguity.
• Preferred: You have experience in advertising technology, search engine marketing, paid-search bidding, advertising auctions, or a related optimization domain such as marketplace allocation, pricing, or revenue management.
• You have a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Economics, a quantitative field, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.

Senior Technical Product Manager, Bidding & Optimization

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

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About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

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Equal Opportunity

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.