Expedia
Senior Product Manager, Search & Recommendations Quality
$173K–$277K
Washington - Seattle Campus · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience; 6+ years with a Master's degree.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, quantitative, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Employer participates in E-Verify and verifies work authorization using Form I-9 information.
About the job
Owns product strategy and measurement for search ranking and recommendation quality, helping teams evaluate relevance, run experiments, and prioritize improvements across Expedia Group brands.
What you'll do
- Set the vision, roadmap, KPIs, and review cadence for search and recommendation quality measurement.
- Partner with ML and engineering teams to evaluate models, manage relevance evaluation systems, and guide technical tradeoffs.
- Lead benchmarking and experimentation, translating findings into prioritized product and ranking improvements.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree in a technical, quantitative, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience owning product metrics, experimentation, or evaluation frameworks for a ranking, recommendations, personalization, or search system.
- Strong technical depth and experience partnering with ML Science/ML Engineering teams on model evaluation and tradeoffs.
- Ability to design experiments, interpret ranking or recommendation data, and turn findings into a defensible roadmap.
Nice to have
- Experience with search ranking or recommendation systems, including learning-to-rank, collaborative filtering, NDCG, or engagement and conversion metrics.
- Familiarity with LLM-as-judge or other AI-assisted evaluation methods.
Pay
USD 173,000.00 to USD 242,500.00 total cash; up to USD 277,000.00 total cash (top of range)
Tools
NDCG@10, LLM-as-judge
AI focus
Uses LLM-as-judge scoring and other AI-assisted methods to evaluate search relevance and recommendation quality.
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