Principal Product Manager, AI Builder Experiences (Austin)
Expedia Group brands power global travel for everyone, everywhere. We design cutting-edge tech to make travel smoother and more memorable, and we create groundbreaking solutions for our partners. Our diverse, vibrant, and welcoming community is essential in driving our success.Why Join Us?To shape the future of travel, people must come first. Guided by our Values and Leadership Agreements, we foster an open culture where everyone belongs, differences are celebrated and know that when one of us wins, we all win.We provide a full benefits package, including exciting travel perks, generous time-off, parental leave, a flexible work model (with some pretty cool offices), and career development resources, all to fuel our employees' passion for travel and ensure a rewarding career journey. We’re building a more open world. Join us.Principal AI Builder Product ManagerIntroduction to the Team: Expedia Group powers travel for everyone, everywhere. As AI becomes core to how travelers plan, book, and manage their trips, our ability to rapidly explore, prototype, and ship new AI capabilities becomes essential. You will help build the next generation of AI-powered experiences and the underlying patterns that ensure every experience meets a high standard of clarity, accuracy, and trust.The Core AI Experiences team defines how Expedia Group builds AI. We create reusable components, orchestration patterns, and quality bars that help teams across the company turn frontier-model capabilities into delightful, reliable customer experiences. We partner with product, engineering, design, and data science teams supporting shopping, servicing, and other key journeys.In this role, you will be a hands-on AI builder PM. You will prototype new AI experiences using third‑party and internal models, evaluate emerging capabilities, and lead the most promising ideas from experiment to production at scale. Your work will influence AI-powered experiences across Expedia Group and set the bar for what “great” looks like in applied AI.In this Role, you will: Identify high-impact traveler and partner problems that can be unlocked by AI, and frame them as clear, testable product bets.Rapidly prototype end‑to‑end AI experiences using available LLMs and tools (e.g., prompt design, tool/function calling, retrieval, simple UIs) to validate value and feasibility.Evaluate new capabilities from frontier labs and internal platforms, and translate them into concrete product concepts, demos, and proof‑of‑concepts.Partner closely with engineering, data science, and design to take successful prototypes to production, including instrumentation, experimentation, guardrails, and ongoing quality improvements.Define reusable patterns and primitives (e.g., explanations, preview/approve/undo flows, context continuity) that can be adopted across teams and surfaces.Establish clear success metrics and experimentation plans for AI features, and use data and user feedback to guide iteration and prioritization.Communicate clearly with senior leaders and cross‑functional partners, bringing structure and clarity to ambiguous technical and product spaces.Share learnings, playbooks, and best practices so that prototyping and AI‑first thinking become part of how product teams across Expedia Group operate.Minimum Qualifications:10 years of product management experience building consumer or platform products, including meaningful work with AI, ML, or technically complex systems.Strong technical depth and experience partnering with engineering and DS/ML teams; comfortable discussing system design, data flows, tradeoffs, and constraints.Hands‑on ability to prototype: capable of using APIs/SDKs from major LLM providers and writing simple code (e.g., Python or TypeScript/JavaScript) to stitch together prompts, tools, and basic interfaces.Proven track record of taking 01 product ideas from concept through prototype to launched features, with clear impact on customer and business outcomes.Experience with metrics, experimentation, and evaluation (e.g., A/B testing, success metrics definition, instrumentation, or system reliability).Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to make complex technical topics accessible and to drive alignment across senior cross‑functional stakeholders.Preferred Qualifications:Experience building or shipping AI/LLM-powered user experiences (e.g., conversational agents, copilots, recommendations, search, automation, or decision-support tools).Familiarity with LLM behavior and ecosystems: prompt engineering, tools/function calling, retrieval/RAG, embeddings, and basic evaluation techniques.Background in software engineering, data science, or ML (professional experience or equivalent technical projects), even if you have primarily worked as a PM.Understanding of trustworthy AI principles, including safety, bias, privacy, and failure‑mode analysis, and how to apply them in product design.Experience building frameworks, tools, or platforms that scale across multiple teams or products in a large organization.The total cash range for this position in San Jose is $242,000.00 to $338,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $387,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $224,000.00 to $313,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role. The total cash range for this position in Austin is $224,000.00 to $313,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $358,500.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.Starting pay for this role will vary based on multiple factors, including location, available budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience. Pay ranges may be modified in the future.Expedia Group is proud to offer a wide range of benefits to support employees and their families, including medical/dental/vision, paid time off, and an Employee Assistance Program. To fuel each employee’s passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership. View our full list of benefits.Accommodation requestsIf you need assistance with any part of the application or recruiting process due to a disability, or other physical or mental health conditions, please reach out to our Recruiting Accommodations Team through the Accommodation Request.We are proud to be named as a Best Place to Work on Glassdoor in 2024 and be recognized for award-winning culture by organizations like Forbes, TIME, Disability:IN, and others.Expedia Group's family of brands includes: Brand Expedia, Hotels.com, Expedia Partner Solutions, Vrbo, trivago, Orbitz, Travelocity, Hotwire, Wotif, ebookers, CheapTickets, Expedia Group Media Solutions, Expedia Local Expert, CarRentals.com, and Expedia Cruises. 2024 Expedia, Inc. All rights reserved. Trademarks and logos are the property of their respective owners. CST: 2029030-50Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group’s Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never provide sensitive, personal information to someone unless you’re confident who the recipient is. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or any other messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official website to find and apply for job openings at Expedia Group is careers.expediagroup.com/jobs.Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce. 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. The employer will provide the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with information from each new employee's I-9 to confirm work authorization.SummaryLocation: USA - California - San Jose; Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway; Washington - Seattle CampusType: Full time
