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Director, People Business Partner

Expedia Group
Seattle, WA Full Time
POSTED ON 12/30/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 1/29/2026
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.

Director, People Business Partner

Make An Impact

In this role, you’ll work closely with senior leaders to advance both business outcomes and our people agenda, fostering a high-performance culture through innovative HR solutions. Looking to join a team of business partners orchestrating the transformation of our talent agenda? Are you driven by excellence and collaboration? Join a team dedicated to creating exceptional employee experiences, fueled by a love for travel and technology.

This role can be based in Austin or Seattle and follows our flexible work model, requiring a minimum of three in-office days per week.

In This Role, You Will

  • Talent Agenda: Work closely with People Business Partner’s and global People team to ensure client group is successful in achieving their goals. This includes partnering with the communities of expertise to define the approach and implementation plan for high performing talent identification, succession planning, focus on future oriented organizational capabilities
  • Develop & Lead: Drive high performance and supportive culture within the team that you support.
  • Organization Culture: Embedding Expedia Group Culture and Enterprise Leader behaviors across the business.
  • Organization Effectiveness and Leadership Coaching: Use effective strategies that enable the organization to thrive through periods of change and provide coaching that helps leaders develop and grow.
  • People Team: Provide support to your peers within our profession in India to support the culture and community in that location within the People team.
  • Strategic Partnership: Partner closely with the executive leaders to defines the overall talent and business strategy, anticipating long-term people needs and translating business plans into HR program objectives. Drive informed decision-making using data to identify trends, resolve root causes of issues, and develop effective solutions.
  • Active engagement as part of a high performing People Pod team, finding ways to help contribute to each other's success.

Experience And Qualifications

  • 10 years relevant experience in HR or People Business Partner roles
  • Experienced in designing end-to end talent agenda, organizational design & development, delivery of global transformation programs.
  • An analytical thinker and a strategic problem-solver, with the drive to cut through complexity and turn high-level business requirements and opportunities into specific initiatives.
  • Biased to action, being familiar with methods and approaches needed to get things done in a collaborative, lean and fast paced environment, responding effectively and simply to sophisticated and ambiguous problems and situations.
  • Highly organized with operational excellence. Able to execute a plan using data to consult and inform along the way and make sound prioritization decisions.
  • 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 relationship by being an inspiring and approachable leader.

The total cash range for this position in Seattle is $197,000.00 to $275,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $315,000.00, 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 Austin is $197,000.00 to $275,500.00. Employees in this role have the potential to increase their pay up to $315,000.00, 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.

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 requests

If 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: 2029030-50

Employment 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.

Salary : $197,000 - $275,500

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