Senior Technical Product Manager - Recommendations & Relevance

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · London, United Kingdom

Senior Technical Product Manager for Expedia Group B2B, focusing on building and delivering AI/ML solutions for recommendations and relevance to enhance partner user experiences and optimize product offerings. The role involves translating business needs into technical requirements, managing the ML lifecycle from data discovery to rollout, and driving program execution across multiple teams.

What you'd actually do

  1. Partner with the Director, Machine Learning Science – Recommendations & Relevance, and cross-functional leadership to define and execute the applied science roadmap that improves recommendation quality, traveller engagement, and partner outcomes across all B2B products.
  2. Own planning and delivery for key initiatives, from problem framing and opportunity sizing through data discovery, feature and signal definition, experiment design, model development, online testing, and rollout.
  3. Translate partner and product needs into clear requirements, success metrics, and prioritised backlogs for the Recommendations & Relevance Machine Learning Science team, ensuring strong alignment with Product Management, Engineering, and Analytics.
  4. Drive program execution and transparency across multiple teams, managing timelines, dependencies, and risks, and communicating plans, progress, and results to senior stakeholders in a clear and compelling way.
  5. Champion operational excellence in the science lifecycle by promoting best practices in experimentation, offline and online evaluation, documentation, and post-launch learning to continuously raise the bar on scientific rigor and impact.

Skills

Required

  • technical product management
  • technical program management
  • machine learning
  • data-intensive domains
  • large-scale platform domains
  • applied machine learning concepts
  • supervised learning
  • ranking
  • recommendation
  • relevance
  • data ecosystems
  • batch and streaming data processing
  • model training
  • model evaluation
  • model deployment
  • model monitoring
  • production environments
  • structured scientific problem statements
  • measurable success metrics
  • technical roadmaps
  • requirements definition
  • communication skills
  • collaboration skills
  • stakeholder management skills
  • cross-functional initiatives
  • project management

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, statistics, mathematics or a related quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of delivering complex technical products or initiatives
  • strong understanding of applied machine learning concepts
  • how models are trained, evaluated, deployed, and monitored in production environments
  • translate ambiguous business problems into structured scientific problem statements

Other signals

  • recommendation quality
  • traveller engagement
  • partner outcomes
  • applied ML algorithms
  • production environments