Senior Manager/ Software Development Engineering Search Marketing /Bidding

About the job

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 Team We create and deliver an aligned, dedicated marketing strategy to fuel each Expedia Group brand's success. Since our travelers interact with us through our brands, we maintain a brand-focused approach in our marketing while leveraging the scale and efficiency we’ve built through functional expertise. Our Bidding team, within the Search Marketing function, is looking for an established people leader to lead a team of engineers. This Senior Manager should be business- and product-minded, able to contribute to strategy or dive into the details, and most importantly, someone who empowers their people and teams to succeed. The role involves building a unified Bidding Platform to streamline campaign management, machine learning science, and operations work, enabling enhanced bidding capabilities. In this role, you will: • Build a unified Bidding Platform to streamline SEM campaign management and onboard existing and new use cases across different marketing channels. • Focus on scientific rigor and drive A/B testing excellence to incrementally deliver value. • Lead and actively contribute to all phases of the software development lifecycle, including design, analysis, development, and deployment efforts for multiple enterprise application projects addressing complex business problems. • Be hands-on while guiding junior developers in building data pipelines and orchestrating bidding strategy and delivery. Experience and Qualifications: • 8+ years of professional, post-college software development experience. • 3+ years of people management experience with a passion for growing individual careers and enabling high-performing teams. • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent professional experience. • Hands-on technologist and leader experienced in running complex, multi-quarter initiatives and managing a broad portfolio of applications and services. • Strong technical acumen and commitment to engineering quality and continuous improvement. • Ability to switch contexts seamlessly—from strategic to detailed, technical to business, inter-team to cross-organization. • Excellent communication skills and highly effective collaboration, with the ability to support ideas with data where applicable. 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.

Requirements

• software development
• people management
• project management
• technical skills
• communication

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field

Preferred Technologies

• software development
• people management
• project management
• technical skills
• communication

Benefits

• full benefits package
• travel perks
• generous time-off
• parental leave
• flexible work model
• career development resources

About the company

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.