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.

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

Introduction to team
Expedia Product & Technology builds innovative products, services, and tools to deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and our employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences for the traveler and our partners that drive loyalty and customer satisfaction.

The Senior Program Manager - Quality Engineering sits on the Platform Quality team within our Product & Technology division. This team serves as a Center of Excellence that builds engineering solutions and tools to increase the velocity, quality, productivity, and efficiency of ensuring the best traveler and partner experiences.

In this role, you will:

• 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.
• Lead all aspects of program management including planning, overarching strategy, and prioritization.
• Work closely with engineering managers to translate requirements into epics, user stories, etc.
• Assist with a holistic approach by ensuring that all components are identified and accounted for maximum efficiency.
• Keep relevant stakeholders informed of progress and changes.
• Proactively manage risk 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.

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related Technical field; or MBA or equivalent related professional experience.
• 10+ years of related experience in Technical Program/Product Management, Agile/SCRUM, and Quality Engineering.
• Strong proficiency in tools such as PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Confluence, Tableau, and Excel.
• Extensive experience in all aspects of program management.
• 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.
• Creative decision-maker who can work independently.
• Proven ability to understand and discuss technical concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver results by working across subject areas.
• Excellent influencing and collaborative skills.

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, or veteran status.