Sr. Manager - HRBP

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.

Senior Manager, HR Business Partner - Product & Technology

Expedia Group is seeking a strategic Senior Manager, HR Business Partner to support our Product & Technology division. In this role, you’ll work closely with leaders to advance both business outcomes and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions.

Please note this role is based in Seattle and follows our hybrid work model, requiring a minimum of three in-office days per week.

What you'll do:

• Talent Strategy: Collaborate with global People team partners and business leaders to ensure the success of client groups through strategic talent initiatives. Key areas include identifying high-potential talent, driving succession planning, and building future-focused organizational capabilities.

• Organizational Effectiveness & Leadership Coaching: Implement strategies that enable the organization to navigate and thrive through change. Provide coaching and development support to leaders to strengthen their effectiveness and accelerate growth.

• Strategic Business Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to the business by leveraging data-driven insights to identify trends, diagnose root causes of challenges, and co-create effective, sustainable solutions that support business goals.

• Lead organizational structure analysis and design, identifying more effective structures and governance models to align with strategic goals.

• Define and implement organizational principles and health objectives, offering strategic insights to optimize performance.

• Design tools (e.g., surveys) to measure organizational effectiveness and assess issues related to structure, talent, and performance.

• Develop and implement programs to improve employee engagement, management capabilities, and leadership development.

• Leverage a deep understanding of business operations and challenges to propose tailored solutions that support organizational objectives.

• Facilitate collaboration among diverse stakeholders to co-create practical and impactful solutions.

• Apply systems thinking to enhance organizational efficiency, recommending improvements across policies, processes, and structures.

• Evaluate the long-term financial and operational impact of proposed solutions to support sustainable business outcomes.

• Serve as a key resource for HR policies and procedures, guiding and educating managers and senior leaders to promote understanding and compliance.

• Partner with HR Centers of Excellence (COEs) and business leaders to design and implement HR programs, ensuring ongoing relevance and effectiveness.

• Provide recommendations on HR structures, tools, and resources to support business needs and enhance organizational capability.

• Apply strong data analysis skills and business acumen to inform decisions related to leadership, structure, and talent development.

• Ensure compliance with legal and regulatory standards in the review and execution of organizational practices.

Experience and Qualification:

• 8+ years’ relevant experience

• Strategic people business partner, experienced in designing end-to-end talent agenda, organizational development, delivery of global transformation programs

• Analytical thinking and strategic problem-solving skills, with the drive to cut. through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives

• Comfortable using advanced executive coaching techniques to make recommendations across opposing and equally critical business needs

• Natural bar-raiser: curious and passionate about the business context and leadership growth, builds strong relationships by being an inspiring and approachable leader

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $155,000.00 to $217,000.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $248,000.00, 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.

Benefits and perks

Expedia Group offers benefits and perks designed to support employees and their families, including medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, an Employee Assistance Program, wellness and travel reimbursement, travel discounts, and International Airlines Travel Agent Network (IATAN) membership. Learn more about life at Expedia Group at https://careers.expediagroup.com/life.

Accommodation requests

Expedia Group is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience. If you need an accommodation or adjustment due to a disability during the application or recruiting process, please submit a request at https://expedia.service-now.com/askeg?id=job_accommodation.

About Expedia Group

Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings. Across our brands and business, we help travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.

Important notice

Employment opportunities and job offers at Expedia Group will always come from Expedia Group's Talent Acquisition and hiring teams. Never share sensitive personal information unless you are confident of the recipient. Expedia Group does not extend job offers via email or messaging tools to individuals with whom we have not made prior contact. Our email domain is @expediagroup.com. The official place to find and apply for roles is https://careers.expediagroup.com/jobs/.

Equal Opportunity

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, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. 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.