Senior Program Manager - Quality Engineering

Senior Program Manager - Quality Engineering

Employer: Expedia Group

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States

Salary: USD 173,000.00 - 242,500.00

Closing date: 2 Nov 2024

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.

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 global hybrid work setup, and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey.

• Shape the future of Expedia Group by bringing a blend of product, strategy, and program management competencies to our portfolio of high visibility initiatives.
• Create, execute and manage effective prioritized roadmaps and detailed plans of execution with strategy and requirements derived from your deep analysis of largest business needs across the organization.
• Lead all aspects of program management including planning, overarching strategy and prioritization, measurable expected outcomes, project schedules, and time frames.
• Work closely with engineering managers to translate requirements into epics, user stories, etc., for consumption by development teams.
• Assist with a holistic approach by ensuring that all components: structure, people, process, and technology are identified and accounted for maximum efficiency.
• Keep relevant stakeholders informed of progress, changes to project schedules, and their impact.
• Proactively manage risk, working with the team to anticipate new risks and lead mitigation planning.
• Create clear, concise, intelligible, audience-appropriate communication materials.
• Drive engineering discussions and reduce engineering re-work as an expert.
• Track and report actual business benefits and metrics of our deliverables.
• Drive broad adoption of our Quality Engineering solutions across the organization.
• Provide coaching and support on quality engineering, tools, and processes to engineering teams.

• Extensive experience in all aspects of program management including creation, execution, and management of effective prioritized roadmaps.
• Ability to keep abreast of the progress of multiple tracks working with distributed teams across time zones.
• Experience and in-depth knowledge of Quality Engineering tools and processes.
• Strong strategic and critical thinking skills; ability to see the "big picture" while also diving into details.
• Proven ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade-offs, and evaluate opportunistic new ideas.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results by working across subject areas and coordinating across organizational boundaries.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science engineering or equivalent.
• 10+ years of related experience in Technical Program/Product Management, Agile/SCRUM, and Quality Engineering in a technology company.
• Strong proficiency in tools such as PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Confluence, Tableau, and Excel.

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, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

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Expedia Group 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, or veteran status.