Technical Product Manager III

Expedia Expedia · Hospitality · Madrid, Spain

Technical Product Manager III role within Expedia Group B2B Technology, focusing on shaping the technology platform that enables partners to deliver seamless travel solutions. The role involves serving as an interface between product managers, engineering, stakeholders, and partners, orchestrating initiatives, bridging product vision with technical execution, driving planning and delivery, evaluating technical trade-offs, and owning operational excellence and quality standards.

What you'd actually do

  1. Serve as the primary interface and communicator between product managers, engineering teams, stakeholders, and B2B partners, coordinating requirements, translating technical complexity into clear business context, and ensuring transparent, timely updates that keep all parties aligned and informed
  2. Orchestrate multiple concurrent initiatives across teams and systems, identifying cross-team dependencies, managing risks, conducting analysis across diverse technology platforms, and balancing product, technical debt, and operational work to ensure efficient, incremental delivery
  3. Bridge product vision and technical execution by collaborating with Product Managers on strategic epics and translating them into detailed technical specifications, during quarterly planning, working within engineering teams to create actionable stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs that empower robust solutions
  4. Drive quarterly planning and delivery excellence by creating roadmaps with clear milestones, managing team backlog priorities, leading sprint planning and refinement sessions, and partnering with engineering managers on capacity planning to ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes
  5. Evaluate technical trade-offs and facilitate decision-making by aligning business and technical objectives, addressing design challenges collaboratively, and ensuring the team maintains clear, stable priorities that balance partner needs with platform scalability and maintainability
  6. Own operational excellence and quality standards by establishing success metrics, overseeing validation and acceptance testing, driving incident investigation as first responder, and defining "definition of done" criteria that ensure sustainable, production-ready deliverables

Skills

Required

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field; or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, or software engineering roles
  • Exceptional communication skills
  • Ability to orchestrate multiple concurrent initiatives across distributed teams
  • Strong technical fluency and systems thinking
  • Understanding of software development lifecycles
  • Understanding of system architectures (tiered, service-oriented, event-driven)
  • Understanding of APIs, data organization, performance optimization, and scalability
  • Experience engaging meaningfully in technical design discussions
  • Experience tracing dependencies across complex systems
  • Experience bridging product vision with scalable technical solutions
  • Hands-on experience with agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban)
  • Experience facilitating sprint planning, refinement sessions, backlog management, and cross-team coordination
  • Data-driven approach to tracking metrics, identifying risks early, and driving continuous improvement

Nice to have

  • Experience with B2B platforms
  • Experience with partner-facing products
  • Experience with data technologies (SQL/NoSQL)
  • Experience with cloud-based solutions
  • Experience with coding

What the JD emphasized

  • proven track record of leading complex, multi-team initiatives from concept to delivery
  • exceptional communicator who adapts your style effortlessly
  • excel at orchestrating multiple concurrent initiatives across distributed teams
  • strong technical fluency and systems thinking
  • hands-on experience with agile delivery frameworks