Director, Product Management

Director, Product Management – Rapid API – New Lines of Business

Expedia Group is a global travel technology company that connects partners with the world’s most comprehensive travel inventory.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi‑year product roadmap for Rapid APIs across Vrbo, Car, Activities, and Ground Transportation, aligning with EG’s B2B growth strategy and partner demand signals.
• Directly manage a team of four Product Managers, each responsible for a distinct API domain (Vrbo, Car, Activities, and Ground Transportation), providing coaching, career development, and clear accountability frameworks.
• Develop close relationships with key B2B partners to understand their needs, participating in QBRs, API design reviews, and escalations for tier-1 accounts.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to oversee end-to-end API delivery—from discovery and API design through launch, partner onboarding, and lifecycle management.
• Build strong relationships with Business Development, Partner Success, Engineering, and commercial teams to translate partner needs into sequenced, impactful product bets.
• Work with the analytics team to define and track success metrics—partner adoption, Gross Booking Value, API reliability—and hold the team accountable to measurable outcomes.
• Identify new API monetisation opportunities across emerging lines of business, collaborating with Business Development and Finance to build the commercial case.
• Advocate for the product portfolio with senior leadership and champion a high‑ownership, outcomes‑oriented culture within the team.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of B2B product management experience, preferably in the travel industry.
• 7+ years of experience working on API or platform products, with a deep understanding of RESTful / GraphQL API design and developer experience.
• 5+ years of people management experience, including hiring, coaching, and developing Product Managers.
• Strong strategic thinking skills and the ability to identify the best business opportunities across Vrbo, Car, Activities, and Ground Transportation verticals.
• Excellent influencing skills and experience working within a large, globally distributed matrix organization.
• Proficiency in communicating with engineers about problem spaces, articulating user stories, and building products incrementally.
• Excitement about leading a large, multi‑vertical portfolio of API products and managing a cross‑functional team.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

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