Senior Technical Lead, Marketing Technology & AI

At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time. 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.

Here, 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.

Introduction to the team:

Travel Partnerships and Advertising helps partners—including hotels, airlines, destination marketing organizations, and other travel businesses—deliver excellent traveler and B2B experiences. We support partner growth and the Expedia Group marketplace through competitive supply, our advertising and travel media network, and affiliate solutions.

Within Supply Marketing organization, the Digital Operations team enables marketing teams to plan, activate, personalize, measure, and optimize digital experiences  operate across web, email, SMS, push, paid media, audience activation, experimentation, and measurement, connecting people, processes, platforms, data, and AI into a reliable operating system for partner-facing marketing.

About the role:

We are looking for a senior technical leader to help build and scale the software, data, automation, and AI capabilities that power Digital Operations. This role sits at the intersection of marketing operations, product, analytics, data, engineering, and enterprise technology.

You will turn operational pain points and ambiguous business needs into durable technical solutions that improve campaign velocity, execution quality, audience readiness, personalization, measurement, and team productivity. You will lead technical discovery and architecture, build and integrate production capabilities, and establish repeatable patterns that allow Digital Operations to move faster without compromising security, privacy, reliability, governance, or the partner experience.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. You will be expected to prototype and deliver solutions directly, while also setting direction, aligning stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and helping partner teams adopt common platforms, APIs, data products, workflows, and AI  this role, you will:

Lead technical discovery, architecture, prototyping, and delivery for software, data, machine learning, and generative AI solutions.

Build production-quality services, APIs, data pipelines, workflow automation, and AI-enabled applications that improve campaign execution, personalization, audience activation, measurement, and productivity.

Design and implement LLM-enabled capabilities, including retrieval-augmented generation, intelligent assistants, agent workflows, tool calling, context design, evaluation frameworks, and human-in-the-loop controls.

Connect marketing technologies, enterprise data platforms, analytics systems, experimentation platforms, APIs, and AI services into reliable end-to-end solutions.

Translate business and analytics questions into measurable technical outcomes, defining success metrics, data requirements, instrumentation, and feedback loops.

Serve as the technical lead for complex, cross-functional initiatives by clarifying ambiguity, making architecture trade-offs, sequencing delivery, and unblocking partner teams.

Help teams adopt reusable APIs, data products, AI capabilities, engineering patterns, and development practices.

Evolve…