Expedia Group
Lead Product Designer – Personalization & AI Experiences
Austin Domain 11 - HomeAway, USA · Senior
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About the role
- Here, you'll do meaningful work that helps millions of people discover, book, and experience travel with more ease, confidence, and joy.
- Locations: Austin, Seattle, San Jose, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago Why this role matters: Every traveler comes to Expedia Group with different needs, preferences, and intentions.
- One of our most interesting challenges is what happens when we know very little about a traveler.
Responsibilities
- As a Lead Product Designer, you will own meaningful parts of the personalization experience from exploration through product delivery.
- Shape the future of personalization. Define and design experiences that help Expedia Group better understand traveler intent, preferences, and behavior, and translate those signals into meaningful personalized experiences.
- Solve the cold-start challenge. Explore ways to create value from a traveler's first interactions, moving experiences from limited context toward increasingly relevant personalization.
- Design better signal-capture experiences. Create thoughtful ways for travelers to express what matters to them, explicitly or implicitly, while considering how personalization can remain understandable and explainable.
- Set a high craft bar. Bring strong interaction and visual design judgment to complex problems, translating conceptual thinking into cohesive, polished experiences.
- Influence through storytelling. Communicate the thinking, evidence, tradeoffs, and opportunities behind your work so partners and leaders can make informed decisions.
- Your work creates clearer, more relevant personalized experiences and helps ideas progress from exploration into product opportunities.
- Design Excellence
- You bring a strong product-design craft bar to an emerging technical space, creating experiences that feel thoughtful, intuitive, polished, and useful.
- 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.
Requirements
- Bachelors or Masters degree in User Experience Design, Human-Computer Interaction, or a related field
- Ability to translate ambiguous or technically complex opportunities into clear, intuitive product experiences.
- Strong systems thinking and the ability to connect individual interactions across broader journeys, platforms, or ecosystems.
- Strong prototyping skills and the ability to use prototypes to explore interactions, communicate ideas, and evaluate product directions.
- Ability to work effectively in ambiguous, evolving product spaces while maintaining a high bar for craft and execution.
Nice to have
- Experience designing personalization, recommendations, identity, memory, preferences, or signal-capture experiences.
- Experience partnering closely with data scientists or working with model-driven product experiences.
- Experience creating functional coded prototypes with tools such as React, Cursor, or similar technologies.
- The total cash range for this position in Austin is $173,000.00 to $242,500.00.
- Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $277,000.00, 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 San Jose is $187,000.00 to $261,500.00.
- Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $299,000.00, which is the top of the range, based on ongoing, demonstrated, and sustained performance in the role.
- Pay ranges may be modified in the future.
Compensation
- $173k-$243k
Benefits
- Partner with technical teams to translate opportunities in AI, machine learning, data, and personalization into experiences travelers can understand and use.
- Use high-fidelity prototyping and experimentation to make ideas tangible, evaluate possibilities, and accelerate learning.
Company info
- At Expedia Group, we help travelers explore the world, one journey at a time.
- Help promising concepts mature into experiences that can inform and become part of Expedia Group products. - Set a high craft bar.
- To fuel each employee's passion for travel, we offer a wellness & travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and an International Airlines Travel Agent (IATAN) membership.
- Carry ideas toward real products. Help promising concepts mature into experiences that can inform and become part of Expedia Group products.
Equal opportunity
- Expedia is committed to creating an inclusive work environment with a diverse workforce.
- 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.
- 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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Visa & Work Authorization
- 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.
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