Senior Engineering Manager, Design System

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. Our Technology Team partners with teams across the company to create innovative products, services, and tools that deliver high‑quality experiences for travelers, partners, and employees.

About the role

This senior engineering manager role is part of the design system team within our technology division. The team develops and maintains a unified design system that enables consistent, accessible, scalable, and brand‑supportive experiences across web, iOS, and Android through reusable components, design standards, tokens, and theming. In this role you will lead people and delivery for a high‑impact engineering team, setting direction, developing talent, and ensuring outcomes align with business goals.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop engineering teams responsible for Expedia Group’s design system, fostering technical excellence, accountability, and continuous growth.
• Define and execute the technical strategy for reusable design‑system capabilities that improve consistency, accessibility, developer productivity, and customer experiences across products.
• Guide architecture and implementation decisions across system design, low‑level design, API design, data modeling, and integration patterns for services and shared components.
• Partner with product, design, accessibility, and engineering stakeholders to establish priorities, align roadmaps, and deliver scalable solutions across multiple domains.
• Establish engineering practices that strengthen reliability, quality, security, observability, and operational excellence for design‑system platforms and services.
• Safely integrate and operate AI/ML‑enabled solutions that improve outcomes, applying AI/ML concepts to real‑world products.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of relevant professional experience and 3+ years of people‑management experience.
• Experience owning technical direction and delivery across a multi‑service platform, shared capability, or technical domain.
• Strong knowledge of software architecture, system design, low‑level design, API design, data modeling, testing, observability, and production operations.
• Demonstrated ability to lead through influence, manage technical execution across teams, and translate business and customer needs into engineering outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience leading the evolution of a design system or comparable shared platform used by multiple product teams, with close partnership across UX, product, design, accessibility, and engineering.
• Experience managing and developing full‑stack developers and mobile engineers while scaling reliable, accessible, secure, and maintainable engineering systems across a broad product ecosystem.
• Track record of operating and scaling reliable, accessible, and maintainable engineering systems across a broad product ecosystem.
• Familiarity with AI‑assisted engineering workflows or AI/ML‑enabled product capabilities, with the judgment to evaluate and operate these solutions responsibly.
• Experience building strong partnerships across engineering, product, design, and other technical disciplines to drive adoption of shared capabilities.

Pay

The total cash range for this position in Austin is $184,500.00 to $258,000.00, with the potential to increase up to $295,000.00 based on sustained performance. Starting pay varies based on location, budget, and an individual’s knowledge, skills, and experience.

Benefits

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.