Director, Product Management

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · London, United Kingdom

Director of Product Management to lead the Rapid API product strategy across four high-growth verticals: Vrbo (vacation rentals), Car, Activities & Experiences, and Ground Transportation. Manage a team of four Product Managers, owning distinct API product domains, and work cross-functionally to build developer-first integrations that unlock new revenue streams and deepen partner engagement at scale.

What you'd actually do

  1. You will define and own the multi-year product roadmap for Rapid APIs across Vrbo, Car, Activities, and Ground Transportation, aligning to EG’s B2B growth strategy and partner demand signals
  2. You will directly manage four Product Managers — each responsible for a dedicated API domain (Vrbo, Car, Activities, and Ground Transportation) — providing coaching, career development, and clear accountability frameworks
  3. You will develop close relationships with key B2B partners to understand their needs, participating in QBRs, API design reviews, and escalations for tier-1 accounts
  4. You will work together with your engineering teams to oversee end-to-end API delivery — from discovery and API design through to launch, partner onboarding, and lifecycle management
  5. You will build great relationships with Business Development, Partner Success, Engineering, and commercial teams to translate partner needs into sequenced, impactful product bets

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of B2B product management experience
  • 7+ years’ experience working on API or platform products
  • deep understanding of RESTful / GraphQL API design
  • 5+ years’ people management experience
  • hiring, coaching, and developing Product Managers
  • outstanding influencing skills
  • experience working within a large, globally distributed matrix organisation
  • speak knowledgeably with engineers about a problem space
  • communicate user stories
  • build products incrementally
  • identify the best business opportunities
  • make clear prioritisation calls
  • devise a compelling strategy

Nice to have

  • preferably in the travel industry

What the JD emphasized

  • API strategy
  • API product domain
  • API design
  • API delivery
  • API monetisation opportunities