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. HomeAway is part of the Expedia Group family of brands.

We are seeking a Project Manager to join our Global Customer Experience team. As a Customer Experience (CE) Project Manager, you will focus on implementing large and small-scale projects that drive the strategic goals of the CE organization. You will work cross-functionally to improve CE productivity and efficiency and do so with a deep focus on overall project execution.

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities for this role include:

• Collaborating with CE and other business teams to define, launch, and execute various strategic and operational initiatives.
• Understanding the complexities of projects, impacting multiple brands and teams located across the globe.
• Simplifying project delivery by removing ambiguity and creating structure for highly complex activities.
• Leading project planning and delivery; you will be creating the project timeline, defining requirements, delivering status reports, identifying risks, escalating issues and tracking budgets.
• Facilitating meetings with diverse partner groups; you will lead kickoff meetings, status meetings, design sessions and issue resolution meetings.
• Developing project reporting and governance structures, meeting cadences, and review guidelines.
• Ensuring that decisions are consistent with corporate strategies and future expectations.
• Anticipating information needs, identifying gaps and organizing data and communications cohesively and clearly.
• Regularly assess project risks and opportunities to continually drive process improvements.
• Effectively manage change by influencing and communicating with key partners.
• Creating standard processes and promoting consistency through implementation of PMO toolkits consisting of project management methodologies, templates and processes.

You should demonstrate the following competencies:

• Organization. Highly organized with an ability to adapt to changing needs and excellent attention to detail.
• Decision-making. Identify issues and problems and challenge the status quo by using facts and data to drive decision-making.
• Problem solving. Accurately assess problems and arrive at appropriate solution. 
• Teamwork. Work cooperatively and effectively with others to set goals, resolve problems, and make decisions that improve organizational effectiveness.
• Passion. Show a real passion for building great customer experiences.
• Execution. Drive and manage scope to prioritize and balance multiple strategic projects with business expertise.
• Enthusiastic. Self-starter that can independently initiate and manage project dependencies.
• Communication. Demonstrate excellent verbal, written and presented communications with ability to present to all levels and sizes of audience.
• Negotiation. Ability to influence decisions that need to be made to make the project successful.

Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree. MBA or graduate degree in business a plus.
• 3+ years of project/program management experience with growing levels of responsibility.
• Experience working in an agile environment and delivering a full lifecycle project. 
• Deep knowledge and experience using collaborative project management tools and processes (e.g. JIRA, Smartsheets, Google docs); experience with Salesforce.com CRM and other agent desktop tools is a plus.
• PMP certification highly desirable.
• Experience working with PMO (creating project processes, tools, templates) a plus.

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive health and insurance benefits
• Competitive salary
• Annual target bonus or commission
• Paid vacation and sick time
• Vacation rental on a yearly basis (taxable benefit)
• 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

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.