Payment Performance Manager

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Seattle, WA

This role focuses on improving payment performance, compliance, and scalability within Expedia Group's payment systems. It involves automating KYC workflows and streamlining onboarding using AI/ML-driven tools and Agentic AI, optimizing payment performance, and managing merchant fees. The role requires cross-functional coordination with analytics, product, operations, and legal teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build and use automation (including AI or machine‑learning‑driven tools) to enhance KYC workflows, streamline onboarding, and reduce manual effort and friction
  2. Programmatically assess the operational performance of payment products and methods
  3. Comfortably build, monitor, and interpret key performance indicators (KPIs)—including payment approval rates & merchant fee rates—by designing the underlying metrics, reports, and dashboards needed to detect trends, identify areas for investigation, and resolve performance issues.
  4. Ensure issues are routed to the correct owners, transparently tracked to resolution, and managed with clear communication, accountability, and follow-through
  5. Collaborate in cross‑functional triage and resolution of high impact issues, partnering closely with Payment Operations, Business Intelligence, Product, Engineering, Legal/Compliance, and external payment partners and fintechs.

Skills

Required

  • bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, or a related technical field; or Equivalent related professional experience
  • 2 years of experience in payments, financial operations, e-commerce, or a related domain, ideally in consumer and/or B2B payments
  • experience working with operational products, fintechs, or large e‑commerce merchant organizations
  • functional experience or formal education in product management, business programs/program management, product analytics, or a related field
  • comfortable using data, dashboards, and KPIs to monitor performance, identify issues, and recommend improvements
  • proven ability to drive business value through systematic, incremental process and product improvements
  • build strong relationships with cross‑functional teams and external partners, and you are comfortable leading workstreams without formal authority

Nice to have

  • Experience using AI or machine‑learning‑driven tools (for example, anomaly detection, forecasting, decision‑support dashboards) in a payments, financial operations, or e-commerce environment, including defining and tracking KPIs to measure impact
  • Experience utilizing Agentic AI to improve, operationalize, or automate repetitive processes in payment, risk, or financial operations, including identifying opportunities to build agents or tooling that reduce manual effort and friction
  • Experience building and maintaining dashboards in Tableau is a plus
  • Experience coordinating or managing cross‑functional programs with clear roadmaps, milestones, and stakeholder communication across Product, Operations, Engineering, and external partners
  • Proficiency in multiple languages is a plus

What the JD emphasized

  • AI or machine‑learning‑driven tools
  • Agentic AI

Other signals

  • AI/ML-driven tools
  • Agentic AI
  • KYC workflows
  • onboarding automation
  • payment performance
  • merchant fee optimization