Principal Product Management- Merchandising

Overview

Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge technology to improve travel experiences and create solutions for our partners. We value an open, inclusive culture and a strong focus on customer and business outcomes.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, including travel perks, time off, parental leave, flexible work models, and career development resources to support employees’ growth and well-being. We’re building a more open world. Join us.

Introduction to the Team

Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere. Millions of travelers rely on us to compare options, evaluate value, and choose the trip that is right for them. We are modernizing how travelers discover, compare, and understand their choices as expectations for digital commerce rise.

As Principal Product Manager, Merchandising, you will be part of a high-impact product team at the intersection of technology, data, customer experience, and commerce. We offer a broad travel inventory across brands and markets. Your mission will be to define and deliver merchandising frameworks and retail foundations that shape how travelers engage with our inventory and offers. You will collaborate with engineering, design, analytics, data science, pricing, and brand teams to impact experiences used across multiple brands and global markets.

In This Role You Will

• Define the merchandising strategy for how inventory, offers, and product attributes are presented across Expedia Group.
• Lead the roadmap for ranking, sorting, filters, badging, product attributes, and offer presentation.
• Build scalable systems that support automated decisioning and real-time context.
• Establish merchandising patterns and governance that create consistency where it matters and allow brands to differentiate where appropriate.
• Drive experimentation to improve relevance, clarity, and conversion.
• Partner with pricing and supply teams to ensure transparent and consistent offer presentation.
• Collaborate with design and research to simplify complex decisions and improve product understanding.
• Align teams across retail, platform, design, and brand organizations on shared merchandising principles.
• Build strong partnerships with engineering to ensure predictable, high-quality platform delivery.
• Coach and develop product managers to bring clarity, rigor, and strong judgment to high-volume retail work.

• 10+ years of product management experience, with leadership roles in ecommerce or merchandising.
• Experience owning high-volume retail or shopping experiences.
• Strong understanding of ranking, relevance, discovery, and experimentation.
• Experience leading cross-functional teams across engineering, design, analytics, pricing, and supply.
• Strong data fluency and experience using experimentation and insights to guide decisions.
• Ability to create clear, structured product roadmaps in complex retail systems.
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align across multiple teams.

• Experience building or scaling platforms that support multiple products or surfaces, including services, data flows, and configuration models.
• Technical fluency and ease working with engineering on system design, APIs, experimentation, and end-to-end platform behavior.
• Background in merchandising systems, pricing clarity, retail logic, or dynamic content models.
• Familiarity with machine learning and how ML-driven signals such as ranking, relevance, or recommendations improve retail outcomes.
• Experience designing for multi-brand or multi-market environments where shared components and standards drive consistency.

Starting pay for this role will vary based on location, knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.

Expedia Group is committed to an inclusive work environment. 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, or veteran status. This employer participates in E-Verify.