Director, Product Management - Merchandising

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting‑edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time‑off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Director of Product Management, Merchandising

Introduction to the Team :

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere. Millions of travellers rely on us to compare options, evaluate value, and choose the trip that is right for them. As expectations for digital commerce rise, we are modernizing how travellers discover, compare and understand their choices.

As a Director of Product Management, Merchandising, you will be part of a high‑impact product team that sits at the intersection of technology, data, customer experience, and commerce. Expedia Group hosts the broadest offering in the travel industry, including 3 million+ properties and 500+ airlines. Your mission will be to define and deliver the merchandising frameworks and retail foundations that shape how millions of travellers around the world engage with our inventory and offers. You'll work with a diverse peer group across engineering, marketing, design, analytics, data science, pricing, and brand organisations, making your mark on experiences used across multiple brands and global markets.

In This Role You Will :

Define the merchandising strategy for how inventory, offers, and product attributes are presented across Expedia Group.

Lead the roadmap for ranking, sorting, filters, badging, product attributes, and offer presentation.

Build scalable systems that support automated decisioning and real‑time context.

Establish merchandising patterns and governance that create consistency where it matters and allow brands to differentiate where they should.

Drive experimentation to improve relevance, clarity, and conversion.

Partner with pricing and supply teams to ensure transparent and consistent offer presentation.

Work with design and research to simplify complex decisions and improve product understanding.

Align teams across retail, platform, design, and brand organisations on shared merchandising principles.

Build strong partnerships with engineering to ensure predictable, high‑quality platform delivery.

Coach and develop product managers to bring clarity, rigor, and strong judgement to high‑volume retail work.

Minimum Qualifications :

10+ years of product management experience, with leadership roles in ecommerce or merchandising.

Experience owning high‑volume retail or shopping experiences.

Strong understanding of ranking, relevance, discovery, and experimentation.

Experience leading cross‑functional teams across engineering, design, analytics, pricing, and supply.

Strong data fluency and experience using experimentation and insights to guide decisions.

Ability to create clear, structured product roadmaps in complex retail systems.

Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align across multiple teams.

Preferred Qualifications :

Experience building or scaling platforms that support multiple products or surfaces, including services, data flows, and configuration models.

Technical fluency and ease working with engineering on system design, APIs, experimentation, and end‑to‑end platform behaviour.

Background in merchandising systems, pricing clarity, retail logic, or dynamic content models.

Familiarity with machine learning and how ML‑driven signals such as ranking, relevance, or recommendations improve retail outcomes.

Experience designing for multi‑brand or multi‑market environments where shared components and standards drive consistency.

The total cash range for this position in Chicago is $208,000.00 to $291,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $333,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Austin is $224,000.00 to $313,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500.00, 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.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical / dental / vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.

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If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award‑winning culture by organisations like Forbes, TIME, Disability : IN, and others.

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