Senior Technical Program Manager

Sr. Technical Program Manager, Media Solutions 

Expedia Group Media Solutions, a global travel advertising platform, offers industry expertise and digital marketing solutions that allow brands to reach, engage and influence their qualified audience of travelers around the world. Through its vast network of leading travel brands and global points of sale, Expedia Group Media Solutions provides marketing partners with proprietary data-driven insights about traveler behaviors during every stage of the purchase journey, along with dynamic advertising solutions, to deliver strategic campaigns and measurable results.

Our travel advertising platform is evolving quickly, and we need a strong Technical Program Manager to help build and deliver the next generation Ad platform.

Are you passionate about Travel and Technology?  Does building the foundation of a highly scalable Travel Ad Platform connecting marketers with hundreds of millions of travelers globally excite you? Are you a natural problem solver who loves a fast-paced environment driven by a strong business impact? Do you enjoy bringing structure to ambiguous problems? 

If so, here is an excellent opportunity for you and we will love to hear from you. We are seeking a Senior Technical Program Manager who can help deliver a game changing Ad platform and play a pivotal role in driving programs and roadmap by collaborating across teams, organizations, and global locations. 

In this role, you will:

• Design, build and drive strategy and execution plan for ambiguous and highly complex technical program(s) requiring coordination across functions, teams & organizations. 

• Partners with the business to understand and ensure connection to overarching strategy and program and ensures prioritization is aligned with strategy. 

• Develop product phase-out planning in line with the product roadmap for any individual part of the Product development lifecycle

• Provide architectural and design input, with ability to dive deep into technical details as required.

• Enables optimum organizational efficiency by taking a whole systems approach and thinking across boundariesby ensuring all components (people, product, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for.

• Defineprogram governance, and build program roadmap by integrating timelines and milestones across program tracks, identifyingand aligning areas of synergy or dependency

• Continuously evaluate the progress of program(s) and make adjustments (e.g., to task order or timeline) to keep the program on track and deliver business unlocks. 

• Leverage experience to anticipate and identify risks in advance of impacts and lead proactive mitigation of issues and risks. 

• Establish working relationships with stakeholders and builds rapport to become a trusted advisor to identify and mitigate strategic issues and effectively handle trade-offs between cost, schedule, and customer benefit

• Utilize technical knowledge and communication skills to generate and design comprehendible, broadly-applicableand differentiated communications for various internal and external audiences 

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field such as computer science, computer engineering or related field required. MS or other related advanced degree preferred.

• 10+ years of experience in software development

• 7+ years of experience running technology-related programs delivering platform solutions using agile development techniques across distributed teams.

• Experience in Advertising and/or Data is preferred.

• Capability to quickly grasp business context & execute with strategic approaches.

• Strong leadership, negotiation, and execution skills with the ability to influence multi-functional teams and key decision maker; drive results, deliver, and excel.

• Being big picture focused while skilled at zeroing in on the product and engineering details and delivering continuous improvement

• Storytelling and persuasive influencing techniques that build trust with team and partners and establish long-term relationships

• Ability to build a deep knowledge of the Ad Platform Tech Stack and meaningful dependencies.

• Solid understanding of software engineering principles and development practices

• Passionate about driving improvements to performance, scalability, and tech health.

• Proactively contributes to cross team collaboration and leads alignment of work with broader initiatives. 

• Adaptable to a rapidly changing landscape, while handling multiple responsibilities

• Excellent written and spoken communication skills 

• Experience with tools such as JIRA and Confluence.