Senior Director, Top Talent

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 Director, Top Talent Introduction to team Our Corporate Functions are made up of teams that support Expedia Group, including our Global Finance Org., Legal Team, Strategy and Corporate Development Team, and People & Places Org.  The single greatest predictor of a company’s long-term performance is the quality and depth of its leadership pipeline. At EG, we believe that talent density — the concentration of high-judgment, high-impact people at every level — is a durable competitive advantage. This role is the architect of the system that builds it. This is a rare opportunity to define what world-class top talent identification and development looks like as a product discipline — and to build it at a global travel company shaping the future of how people explore the world. In this role, you will: Talent Reviews & Succession Architect and own EG’s enterprise talent review and succession product: the tools, frameworks, and mechanisms that enable consistent, high-quality talent identification and succession decisions across the enterprise. Define EG’s enterprise approach to assessing potential, readiness, and risk — building a shared language and calibration standard for what “top talent” means across diverse business contexts. Drive the evolution of talent reviews from periodic, HRBP-facilitated conversations to an always-on, AI-native product that surfaces bench strength signals, succession gaps, and development priorities in real time. Own the governance model for talent reviews — decision rights, cadence, data standards, and version control — so that talent data is reliable, actionable, and continuously improving. Top Talent Development Own the enterprise Top Talent development experience: the integrated portfolio of programs, experiences, and mechanisms that accelerate the growth of EG’s highest-potential employees, including complementary function-specific approaches. Define the development philosophy: what experiences, challenges, and relationships build the capabilities EG needs in its future leaders, and how do we deliver them at scale without sacrificing personalization. Build the coaching strategy as a core mechanism within the top talent development system — establishing internal coaching capability, governing the external coaching clearinghouse, and ensuring coaching investments are targeted, evidence-based, and tied to measurable development outcomes. Partner with Talent Strategy Partners and HRBPs to ensure development experiences are connected to succession plans, performance signals, and business priorities — not operating as a standalone program. Executive Onboarding Own EG’s executive onboarding product: the structured experience that accelerates VP+ hires and promotions into effectiveness, reduces early attrition risk, and builds the cross-functional relationships new executives need to lead at EG. Define the onboarding philosophy and success metrics — what does “fully effective” look like at 30, 60, and 90 days, and how do we build a product that reliably gets new executives there faster? AI-Native Development Drive AI-native product development by design, not as an additional feature — integrating predictive talent signals,