Senior Director,Top Talent Job Seattle area,Washington USA,HR/Recruitment

Senior Director, Top Talent Introduction to team

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.

In this role, you will:

Talent Reviews & Succession
- Architect and own EG’s enterprise talent review and succession product: the tools, frameworks, and mechanisms that enable consistent, high-quality talent identification and succession decisions across the enterprise.
- Define EG’s enterprise approach to assessing potential, readiness, and risk — building a shared language and calibration standard for what “top talent” means across diverse business contexts.
- Drive the evolution of talent reviews from periodic, HRBP-facilitated conversations to an always-on, AI-native product that surfaces bench strength signals, succession gaps, and development priorities in real time.
- Own the governance model for talent reviews — decision rights, cadence, data standards, and version control — so that talent data is reliable, actionable, and continuously improving.
Top Talent Development
- Own the enterprise Top Talent development experience: the integrated portfolio of programs, experiences, and mechanisms that accelerate the growth of EG’s highest-potential employees, including complementary function-specific approaches.
- Define the development philosophy: what experiences, challenges, and relationships build the capabilities EG needs in its future leaders, and how do we deliver them at scale without sacrificing personalization.
- Build the coaching strategy as a core mechanism within the top talent development system — establishing internal coaching capability, governing the external coaching clearinghouse, and ensuring coaching investments are targeted, evidence-based, and tied to measurable development outcomes.
- Partner with Talent Strategy Partners and HRBPs to ensure development experiences are connected to succession plans, performance signals, and business priorities — not operating as a standalone program.
Executive Onboarding
- Own EG’s executive onboarding product: the structured experience that accelerates VP+ hires and promotions into effectiveness, reduces early attrition risk, and builds the cross-functional relationships new executives need to lead at EG.
- Define the onboarding philosophy and success metrics — what does “fully effective” look like at 30, 60, and 90 days, and how do we build a product that reliably gets new executives there faster?
AI‑Native Development
- Drive AI‑native product development by design, not as an additional feature — integrating predictive talent signals, personalized development recommendations, and intelligent succession modeling into EG’s top talent platform in close partnership with People Tech and People Analytics.
- Evaluate and prioritize AI opportunities through a rigorous product lens: where does AI reduce friction and raise the quality of talent decisions, and where does it introduce risk? Bring evidence-based conviction, not hype.
Cross‑Functional Partnership & Delivery
- Lead a diverse cross‑functional coalition of interdependent collaborators (e.g., engineering, L&D, Executive Recruiting, Communications, and HRBP partners) — co‑creating the roadmap, prioritizing the backlog, and holding a high bar for delivery quality and speed.
- Navigate a complex stakeholder landscape (CHRO, TLT, HRBP Leaders, L&D, Compensation) with clarity, candor, and influence — reaching consensus on hard trade‑offs without sacrificing the long‑term product vision.
- Ensure enterprise adoption of top talent products and frameworks: partner…