Senior Technical Program Manager

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Seattle, WA

Senior Technical Program Manager to lead complex, cross-domain initiatives at the intersection of technology delivery, execution discipline, and organizational effectiveness. Responsible for driving alignment from strategy through execution, bringing structure to ambiguity, clarity to priorities, and rigor to delivery. Requires navigating deep technical programs, shaping operating models, and influencing stakeholders. Will work closely with engineering, product, data, and business leaders to ensure predictable and scaled outcomes. Familiarity with AI-driven systems and applying AI/ML concepts to real-world products is required, including safe integration and operation of AI/ML enabled solutions.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive complex, cross-functional technical programs from definition through delivery, ensuring alignment across engineering, product, and partner teams to achieve agreed business outcomes
  2. Translate strategic objectives into clear, executable program plans with detailed scope, milestones, dependencies, and success metrics, and continuously manage risk, issues, and trade-offs
  3. Lead coordination of multiple technical teams and services, facilitating architecture, system design, API design, and data modeling discussions to ensure cohesive end-to-end solutions
  4. Establish and run effective program operating rhythms, including governance, status, and decision forums, using data and metrics to provide clear visibility into program health and to influence stakeholders
  5. Foster operational excellence by defining and driving standards for quality, reliability, security, and scalability across programs, including readiness, launch, and post-launch support processes

Skills

Required

  • Proven experience leading large-scale, cross-functional technical programs with ownership across multiple services or domains, including end-to-end delivery accountability
  • Solid background working closely with software engineering teams on system design, low-level design, API design, and data modeling, with the ability to understand and challenge technical approaches
  • Demonstrated ability to manage complex dependency maps, risks, and trade-offs across organizations, using data and metrics to drive decisions and communicate program status and outcomes
  • Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products, including safely integrating and operating AI/ML enabled solutions that improve customer or business outcomes

Nice to have

  • Experience driving technical programs that operate at significant scale, with demanding reliability, performance, and security requirements across multiple services or platforms
  • Track record of influencing technical and architectural direction across teams or domains, facilitating decisions that balance short-term delivery needs with long-term architectural health
  • Demonstrated excellence in building and improving program management frameworks, operational processes, and metrics that raise the bar on execution quality and predictability across organizations
  • Experience applying AI/ML capabilities or AI-assisted tooling within complex technical programs to improve developer productivity, customer experiences, or operational efficiency, while ensuring safe and compliant usage aligned to organizational standards

What the JD emphasized

  • AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows
  • applying AI/ML concepts to real world products
  • safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions