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As a global travel company powered by passionate people, trusted partnerships, and leading technology, we connect travelers, partners, and advertisers through our consumer brands, B2B network, and travel advertising business.\nHere, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy. Our five Behaviors-Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together-help foster a supportive environment where people can grow their careers and have the flexibility, benefits, and support to do their best work. Join us and build for travelers everywhere.\nExpedia Technology teams’ partner with our Product teams to create innovative products, services, and tools that deliver high-quality experiences for travelers, partners, and employees. A singular technology platform powered by data and machine learning provides secure, differentiated, and personalized experiences that build loyalty and traveler satisfaction.\nThe Experience Platform organization builds and operates foundational capabilities that power customer experiences across Expedia Group, including experience platform services, web and app infrastructure, content management systems, design systems, shared building blocks, and configurable platform capabilities. Other Expedia engineering and product teams rely on these capabilities as internal customers.\nWe are seeking a strategic and technically credible leader to modernize the Experience Platform for the AI era and help Expedia Group build a fast, intelligent, configurable, and easy-to-use platform for travel.\nIn this role, you will:\nLead a globally distributed organization of approximately 130 employees across Seattle, Chicago, London, Brisbane, and remote locations.\nEstablish modern, high-quality platform engineering practices that improve the experience of internal developers and product teams.\nGuide the evolution of experience platform services, web and app infrastructure, CMS technologies, design systems, and configurable platform capabilities.\nPartner closely with the Chief Architect and senior technology leaders to influence technical direction and execute enterprise architecture decisions.\nElevate leadership capability, strengthen engineering practices, and introduce innovative approaches to a technically mature organization.\nBuild strong partnerships across Engineering, Product, Architecture, and other Expedia Group functions.\nChallenge existing assumptions constructively and lead meaningful modernization rather than incremental improvement.\nAttract, develop, and retain a diverse organization of engineering and program management talent.\nExperience and Qualifications\nRequired\nExtensive experience leading large-scale engineering or platform organizations.\nExperience operating with a platform mindset, treating internal developers and product teams as customers.\nProven experience with experience platforms, commerce platforms, design systems, CMS technologies, configurable platforms, or developer platforms.\nStrong technical credibility, including the ability to engage deeply in platform architecture and enterprise technology decisions.\nA record of scaling engineering organizations while combining strategic vision with strong execution.\nProficient communication, collaboration, and cross-functional influence skills.\nPreferred\nExperience modernizing platforms within a large-scale technology, commerce, marketplace, media, or travel organization.\nExperience partnering peer-to-peer with chief architects or equivalent senior technical leaders.\nExperience introducing modern engineering practices within established, high-tenure organizations.\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $296,000.00 to $414,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $473,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nThe total cash range for this position in Chicago is $278,500.00 to $390,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $445,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.\nStarting 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.\nBenefits and perks\nExpedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.\nAccommodation requests\nExpedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request athttps://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.\nAbout Expedia Group\nExpedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.\nImportant notice\nEmployment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.\nEqual Opportunity\nExpedia 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. This employer participates in E-Verify. 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