Senior Product Manager, Business Events

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Expedia

Passionate about a rare opportunity to help craft the future of alternative accommodations within travel? Are you a Product Manager that is passionate about building phenomenal products and loves technology? HomeAway is an exciting, international, profitable company that is transforming the market to become the world’s leading vacation rental marketplace.

Our broader mission as part of the Expedia portfolio is to revolutionize travel through the power of technology.
 

Our Values:

  • We Are Passionate about Travel: We are a company of travelers who wake up every day with passion for the business.
  • We Are Innovative: We use our collective intelligence to invent technology and create products to simplify and improve travel for our customers and partners.
  • We Are Enterprising: We passionately seek out opportunity. We take risks, act with speed and purpose, and always find a way to remove obstacles and get the job done
     

The Opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen at HomeAway for Senior Technical Product Manager, Digital and Analytics Platform within our team. In this role, you will serve as product owner for multiple digital & analytics engineering teams and be actively involved in delivering solutions. Our team is passionate about developing cloud based real-time data products and employee analytics self service tools that enable anyone within the company to analyze data and make business decisions faster.
 

You will play an integral part in defining the Digital and Analytics product strategy while empowering the assigned engineering teams to deliver solutions that our internal partners love. We are looking for a professional who is laser focused on execution, capable of understanding the big picture, and has a proven record of working collaboratively with cross-functional and geographically diverse teams. You will need to be a creative problem solver, passionate about performance and an inspirational leader.

What you’ll do:

  • You will provide program and product management oversight for the definition and implementation of HomeAway’s stream based business events and data enrichment
  • Collaborate with partners across the entire business to deeply understand their business and distill their priorities into a product strategy
  • Create strategy and vision for your product portfolios
  • Create and present executive level presentations to the senior leadership
  • Run monthly product reviews and 180 day planning processes for the your team
  • Bring to bear standard methodologies for developing product requirements, user stories, backlogs and roadmaps
  • Meet frequently with product, engineering and business partners to develop a deep understanding of future needs and strategic direction
  • Partner with the product and engineering lead(s) to ensure the team’s road map and backlog priorities are maintained to enable a smooth agile development process and minimize blockers
  • Monitor your team’s development velocity and facilitate the resolution of risks and blockers

Who you are:

  • 8+ years of Technical Product Management, Program/Project Management and/or Scrum Master experience in a high-tech company, preferably in a B2C ecommerce environment using Agile frameworks
  • 2+ years experience leading product teams creating digital and analytical data products
  • Experience building analytics solutions on Cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure a plus
  • Experience building data products based on streaming data technologies a plus
  • Experience building data products based on domain driven design and eventing
  • Ability to communicate persuasively, build strong-relationships, and collaborate with key team members and peers
  • Excellent written and spoken communication skills, including the ability to present complex concepts to highly engineering and non-engineering partners
  • Confirmed experience defining and authoring solution strategy for large scale software products
  • Validated experience driving agile software development with engineering, quality assurance, and functional teams
  • Full product line life cycle management experience, including user acceptance testing, launch, and end of life processes
  • Ability to lead teams through issue resolution and risk management
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or related area, or equivalent industry experience

Benefits & Perks:

  • Competitive health and insurance benefits.
  • Competitive salary.
  • Annual target bonus or commission.
  • Parental leave for up to 20 weeks (dependent on eligibility).
  • Paid vacation and sick time.
  • Employee Stock Purchase Program.
  • Free snacks and beverages.
  • Frequent company update talks with our leadership team.
  • Free listing on HomeAway.com.
  • Electronic, adjustable stand-up desk.
  • Discounted Metro & Rail pass.
  • Casual dress.

Why join us:

Expedia Group recognizes our success is dependent on the success of our people. We are the world's travel platform, made up of the most knowledgeable, passionate, and creative people in our business. Our brands recognize the power of travel to break down barriers and make people's lives better – that responsibility inspires us to be the place where exceptional people want to do their best work, and to provide them to tools to do so.

Whether you're applying to work in engineering or customer support, marketing or lodging supply, at Expedia Group we act as one team, working towards a common goal; to bring the world within reach. We relentlessly strive for better, but not at the cost of the customer. We act with humility and optimism, respecting ideas big and small. We value diversity and voices of all volumes. We are a global organization but keep our feet on the ground so we can act fast and stay simple. Our teams also have the chance to give back on a local level and make a difference through our corporate social responsibility program, Expedia Cares.

Our family of travel brands includes: Brand Expedia®, Hotels.com®, Expedia® Partner Solutions, Egencia®, trivago®, HomeAway®, Orbitz®, Travelocity®, Wotif®, lastminute.com.au®, ebookers®, CheapTickets®, Hotwire®, Classic Vacations®, Expedia® Media Solutions, CarRentals.com™, Expedia Local Expert®, Expedia® CruiseShipCenters®, SilverRail Technologies, Inc., ALICE and Traveldoo®.

About HomeAway:

HomeAway, a world leader in the vacation rental industry, is the place to book beach houses, cabins, and condos with more than two million places to stay in 190 countries. The site makes it easy to find and book the perfect vacation rental for any getaway, often for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations.

Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.

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Expedia Group has three offices in the Austin area with a 16-story building now open in the Domain.

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