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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.\nPrincipal Program Manager- Transformation Programs\nIntroduction to the Team:\nThe AI Enablement and Culture Office helps Expedia Group unlock enterprise capacity and superior business outcomes through responsible, measurable adoption of artificial intelligence. Working across all Expedia Group businesses and functions, the team connects strategy to execution: building AI fluency, enabling high-impact use cases, strengthening governance and measurement, and helping leaders and teams adopt new ways of working.\nAs a Principal Program Manager, Transformation Programs, you will lead enterprise-scale change that turns ambition into sustained behavior, capability, and business impact. You will operate as a strategic thought leader and enterprise orchestrator-equally comfortable shaping the “why,” designing the operating model, and mobilizing teams to deliver measurable outcomes.\nIn this Role You Will:\nLead enterprise transformation: Lead complex, multi-year transformation programs and portfolios across products, platforms, functions, and regions, from problem definition through sustained adoption and value realization.\n\nAlign senior leaders: Partner with senior technology, product, data, operations, and business leaders to align priorities, resolve competing demands, manage dependencies, and secure sponsorship for enterprise change.\n\nCreate delivery clarity: Establish the governance, operating rhythms, decision forums, roadmaps, and measurement systems that create clarity, accountability, and predictable execution across technology and business organizations.\n\nShift culture and behavior: Shape and execute culture-change strategies that build AI fluency, psychological safety, responsible experimentation, and new ways of working; activate leaders, champions, and communities to reinforce adoption.\n\nMeasure what matters: Define outcome-oriented metrics and evidence-based narratives that show progress in capability, adoption, behavior change, delivery health, and business impact-and use them to guide prioritization and trade-offs.\n\nScale repeatable practices: Build and scale reusable transformation playbooks, operating models, tooling, and patterns, including responsible AI-enabled workflows that improve visibility, forecasting, decision quality, and execution.\n\nApply technical fluency: Bring sufficient technical fluency to engage in system, API, data, platform, integration, reliability, and operational-readiness discussions without owning engineering design or staffing decisions.\n\nBuild enterprise capability: Coach leaders and senior practitioners, raise the bar for transformation and program-management craft, and establish communities of practice that create lasting enterprise capability.\n\nMinimum Qualifications:\nEducation: Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related technical field; or equivalent related professional experience.\n\nTransformation leadership: 10+ years of experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation, change, or technology program portfolios in large, matrixed organizations.\n\nInfluence and alignment: Demonstrated success influencing across organizations and levels, including navigating ambiguity, resolving complex conflicts, and building alignment without relying on formal authority.\n\nOperating-model design: Experience creating enterprise or cross-organization governance, delivery mechanisms, measurement frameworks, and operating models that improve execution and sustained adoption.\n\nExecutive communication: Strong strategic communication, facilitation, storytelling, executive presence, active listening, and relationship-building skills.\n\nTechnical fluency: Technical aptitude across modern technology environments, including system interactions, APIs, data flows, platform modernization, integration patterns, reliability, and operational resilience.\n\nData and AI-enabled execution: Experience applying data, analytics, and AI-enabled tools to improve program visibility, forecasting, scenario planning, decision-making, or workflow effectiveness.\n\nPreferred Qualifications:\nGlobal transformation: Experience leading enterprise AI adoption, digital transformation, operating-model change, or workforce/culture transformation at global scale.\n\nSustained adoption: A track record of converting strategy into repeatable practices, measurable behavior change, and durable business outcomes across multiple domains.\n\nResponsible AI enablement: Experience establishing responsible AI guardrails, adoption measurement, capability assessments, learning ecosystems, or champion networks.\n\nThought leadership: Thought leadership in transformation, change management, technical program management, organizational culture, responsible AI, or data-driven execution.\n\nThe total cash range for this position in Seattle is $231,000.00 to $323,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $369,500.00, 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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