Technical Product Manager III

Team

Expedia Group B2B connects partners across the travel industry to our leading technology, supply, and services – helping them deliver seamless travel experiences to their customers. From airlines and hotels to financial institutions and other travel platforms, we power smarter, faster, and more impactful travel solutions through the most connected marketplace in the world.

Role

Technical Product Manager III – TAAP Tech team. You will shape the technology platform that enables thousands of partners worldwide to deliver seamless travel solutions, driving innovation at the intersection of product strategy and technical excellence.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary interface and communicator between product managers, engineering teams, stakeholders, and B2B partners, coordinating requirements, translating technical complexity into clear business context, and ensuring transparent, timely updates.
• Orchestrate multiple concurrent initiatives across teams and systems, identifying cross-team dependencies, managing risks, conducting analysis across diverse technology platforms, and balancing product, technical debt, and operational work to ensure efficient, incremental delivery.
• Bridge product vision and technical execution by collaborating with Product Managers on strategic epics, translating them into detailed technical specifications, during quarterly planning, and working within engineering teams to create actionable stories, acceptance criteria, and technical designs that empower robust solutions.
• Drive quarterly planning and delivery excellence by creating roadmaps with clear milestones, managing team backlog priorities, leading sprint planning and refinement sessions, and partnering with engineering managers on capacity planning to ensure predictable, high-quality outcomes.
• Evaluate technical trade-offs and facilitate decision-making by aligning business and technical objectives, addressing design challenges collaboratively, and ensuring the team maintains clear, stable priorities that balance partner needs with platform scalability and maintainability.
• Own operational excellence and quality standards by establishing success metrics, overseeing validation and acceptance testing, driving incident investigation as first responder, and defining “definition of done” criteria that ensure sustainable, production-ready deliverables.

Experience and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field; or equivalent professional experience.
• 5+ years of experience in technical product management, technical program management, or software engineering roles, with a proven track record of leading complex, multi‑team initiatives from concept to delivery.
• Exceptional communication skills, adapting style to translate technical complexity into business value for product managers and partners, engage in architecture discussions with engineers, and provide transparent status updates to senior leadership.
• Strong ability to orchestrate multiple concurrent initiatives across distributed teams, proactively identify cross‑team dependencies, manage competing priorities, and maintain momentum on parallel workstreams.
• Strong technical fluency and systems thinking, understanding software development lifecycles (including web‑based product development), system architectures (tiered, service‑oriented, event‑driven), APIs, data organization, performance optimization, and scalability. Capable of meaningful engagement in technical design discussions, tracing dependencies across complex systems, and bridging product vision with scalable technical solutions.
• Hands‑on experience with agile delivery frameworks (Scrum, Kanban), facilitating sprint planning, refinement sessions, backlog management, and cross‑team coordination, with a data‑driven approach to tracking metrics, identifying risks early, and driving continuous improvement.
• Experience with B2B platforms or partner‑facing products, data technologies (SQL/NoSQL), cloud‑based solutions, or coding is highly valued.

Salary Range

The total cash range for this position in Madrid is €55,500.00 to €78,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to €89,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. Starting pay will vary based on location, budget, and individual knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Wellness and travel reimbursement.
• Travel discounts.
• International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Expedia Group is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or age.