AI Operations Manager - AI Builder

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:

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere. AI now answers travelers' calls, drafts replies for human agents to review and send, and resolves routine requests without a human agent needing to step in. How AI will transform the customer service experience is a journey we are on, and the path will shift and iterate as we  Traveler and Marketplace Operations, AI Operations is responsible for shaping that path, and determining what it looks like day to day for the Service Operation.

In partnership with our Product & Technology teams, we define what good looks like when AI handles a traveler contact, design the handoffs between automated systems and people, and build the tooling operations leaders use to see what is happening in their business. We also build directly: tools created inside Operations score more than 580,000 properties for quality risk on production infrastructure and surface roughly 100 places a day where the traveler experience broke down, drawn from real conversations and cases.

This is a broad, cross-functional role that reaches across work streams, from ones you drive yourself to ones where you are one voice among many. Some weeks you are in the code, shipping a tool. Others you are in a leadership forum representing operations, closing an open decision, or writing the brief that unblocks a workstream. It suits someone who works best when given a goal rather than a task  this Role, you will:

Build and ship tools end to end, including applications, artificial intelligence powered analysis, and data pipelines, giving operations leaders a complete picture of quality and traveler experience instead of a small weekly sample

Prototype quickly and hands-on using large language model application programming interfaces, AI-assisted development tools, and internal data platforms, proving value before larger engineering investment is committed

Translate open-ended operational problems, such as reducing repeat contacts after a cancellation, into clearly scoped work with defined data sources, safeguards, and success criteria

Represent the operations point of view in cross-functional AI programs, turning what agents and travelers actually experience into requirements, guardrails, and measures of accuracy

Produce analysis and recommendations that senior leaders can act on, proactively surfacing risks and opportunities across the work and advising on feasibility, effort, and sequencing

Own the operating rhythm for this work, including preparing agendas, facilitating discussion, capturing decisions and actions, and following issues through to closure across platform, data, and security teams

Guide and review the work of a small group of partner-based AI builders, setting the standard for quality, testing, and safe use of artificial intelligence assisted development, so work ships consistently

Help operations teams adopt these tools, building the trust and fluency that turns a working prototype into how the work actually gets done

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in business, analytics, computer science, or a related field; or Equivalent related professional experience5+ years of experience in contact center or service operations, business operations, or a comparable strategic, analytical, and operational role, with the ability to put any data point in its operational context

Hands-on ability to build: you write your own database queries, and you can read, modify, and review Python well enough to understand what you are shipping. Professional experience as a software developer is not required, and we welcome people who have learned to build with artificial intelligence assisted toolsA track record of taking ideas from concept to working prototype to something…