Technical Program Manager III - API Platform Team

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.

Why Join Us?

To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.

We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the team

The API Platform team in Expedia Group’s Platform Engineering organization builds and operates the platform that powers APIs across all EG brands. We focus on delivering reliable, scalable, and developer friendly tooling that makes API development and management intuitive, accelerating time to market and driving significant productivity gains for engineering teams.

We provide frameworks and shared libraries that help teams build production ready services in a consistent way, going from idea to running application in minutes using our templates and generators. We also design, build, and operate business critical API gateways that support multiple protocols (e.g., REST, GraphQL, MCP) and handle millions of requests per day .

In this role, you will:

• Drive end-to-end delivery of complex, cross-functional technical programs from definition through launch, ensuring clear scope, milestones, and success metrics

• Coordinate across engineering, product, design, data, and operations teams to align roadmaps, remove blockers, and ensure timely, high-quality outcomes

• Build and maintain program plans, dependency maps, and risk registers, and communicate status, tradeoffs, and impacts effectively to partners and stakeholders

• Define and implement scalable mechanisms, workflows, and dashboards to track program health, using data and metrics to guide decisions and continuous improvement

• Collaborate with technical leaders to translate business and customer needs into executable technical workstreams, including services, APIs, data flows, and integrations

• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML enabled solutions that improve outcomes, including demonstrating familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years for Bachelor’s degree and 3+ years for Master’s in a technical field, business, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience

• Experience driving technical programs or projects in a software, platform, or data/AI environment, with ownership of multi-team or multi-service initiatives

• Proven ability to partner with engineering teams on technical delivery plans, including understanding of services, APIs, system dependencies, data flows, and operational constraints

• Demonstrated track record of managing program execution using standard methodologies (e.g., Agile, Scrum, or similar), including risk management, dependency management, and stakeholder communication

• Familiarity with AI-driven systems, tools, or workflows and applying AI/ML concepts to real world products at the program level

• Strong technical acumen, including understanding of system and API design, software development lifecycle, and data-driven program management

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience leading complex, multi-quarter technical programs at scale, involving multiple services, platforms, or domains, with clear business outcomes

• Proven ability to influence technical and product roadmaps, drive alignment on architecture and integration decisions, and balance short-term delivery with long-term platform health

• Strong data-driven decision-making skills, including defining and using program-level metrics, KPIs, and dashboards to manage performance and improve processes

• Demonstrated operational excellence, including risk management, process optimization, and continuous improvement

• Safely integrates and operates AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, with advanced familiarity in applying AI/ML to program management challenges

• Experience taking products or platform capabilities from concept to scaled adoption, including discovery, validation, launch, and ongoing iteration in partnership with engineering and product teams

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $146,000.00 to $204,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $233,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits .

Accommodation requests

If you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request .

We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.

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