Manager, Crisis Ops at Expedia Group | GB | Rezi

Manager, Crisis Ops at Expedia Group

Manager, Crisis Ops

Expedia Group · GB

2 days ago

Manager, Crisis Ops

Expedia Group · GB

2 days ago
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About the Role

Expedia Group helps travelers explore the world. This role involves managing a global team of analysts, ensuring operational execution, and championing the adoption of AI tools to enhance crisis response and protect travelers.

Responsibilities

  • Provide day-to-day management for analysts across NA, EMEA, and APAC pods.
  • Hold regular 1:1s with direct reports, delivering timely coaching and feedback.
  • Lead focused and useful team meetings and stand-ups.
  • Own the onboarding experience for new analysts, ensuring operational confidence within 90 days.
  • Identify training needs and develop or source content to close knowledge or proficiency gaps.
  • Work with direct reports to develop individual development plans.
  • Identify high-potential analysts and create additional development opportunities.
  • Support mid-year and end-of-year performance review cycles.
  • Advocate for team growth, recognition, and wellbeing, and escalate resourcing or workload concerns.
  • Own the global coverage model, ensuring adequate analyst capacity across all pods.
  • Own capacity forecasting for the team, anticipating demand and flagging resourcing gaps.
  • Monitor SLA adherence and response quality, flagging gaps and working with analysts to course correct.
  • Serve as the operational escalation point during active crisis events.
  • Participate in war room syncs during significant events, providing operational updates and team coordination.
  • Maintain a working knowledge of the current global threat landscape.
  • Champion the team's use of AI tools in day-to-day crisis operations.
  • Identify where AI tools can reduce workload, improve response speed, or raise output consistency.
  • Ensure analysts are trained and supported in using AI responsibly.
  • Use team performance data to identify patterns informing training, staffing, and process decisions.
  • Ensure the team is using EG's internal data platforms effectively.
  • Own the day-to-day maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures, runbooks, and response playbooks.
  • Lead team-level post-event debriefs, surfacing operational gaps and process improvements.
  • Track and report on team performance metrics, providing clear operational narratives.
  • Identify opportunities to improve internal workflows, tooling, or documentation and escalate recommendations.

Requirements

  • 5 to 8 years of professional experience in crisis management, emergency operations, security operations, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years in a people management capacity overseeing a team of 3 or more.
  • Experience managing globally distributed and remote teams across multiple time zones.
  • Demonstrated ability to build trust, hold people accountable, and develop talent in a high-pressure environment.
  • Strong operational judgment.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience working in or closely with a 24/7 operations environment.
  • Comfortable working with operational data, including pulling reports, interpreting trends, and building performance narratives.
  • Active use of AI tools in a professional setting.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage competing workloads and project timelines across a team.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft 365 suite (Teams, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel).
  • Proficiency with Confluence, Jira or equivalent ticketing platforms.
  • Proficiency with ServiceNow or similar case management tools.

Skills

  • Crisis management
  • Emergency operations
  • Security operations
  • People management
  • Global team management
  • Remote team management
  • Cross-time zone management
  • Coaching
  • Feedback delivery
  • Onboarding
  • Training development
  • Performance management
  • Capacity planning
  • Forecasting
  • SLA adherence monitoring
  • Operational escalation
  • Crisis event response
  • Threat landscape analysis
  • AI tool adoption
  • AI-assisted monitoring
  • AI-assisted communication
  • AI-assisted impact analysis
  • AI-assisted summarization
  • Workflow automation
  • Data analysis
  • Performance metrics reporting
  • Process improvement
  • Documentation maintenance
  • Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
  • Runbooks
  • Response playbooks
  • Post-event debriefs
  • Microsoft 365
  • Confluence
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Commercial threat intelligence platforms (e.g., Crisis24, NC4, Everbridge, OSAC)
  • Meteorological data services (e.g., The Weather Company, DTN, StormGeo)
  • Airline disruption frameworks (IRROPs, Event Waivers, ASCs)
  • Hotel flex policy structures

Location

  • Seattle
  • London
  • Gurgaon

Work Type

  • Full-time
  • Hybrid

Experience Level

  • Manager
  • 3+ years people management
  • 5-8 years professional experience

Education Level

  • Bachelor's degree in emergency management, Public Administration, International Relations, Security Studies, Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, Geography, or a closely related field required.
  • Master's degree in a relevant field preferred.
  • Equivalent demonstrated professional experience considered.

Benefits

  • Flexibility
  • Benefits
  • Support

About the Company

  • Expedia Group helps travelers explore the world with confidence and ease.
  • We are 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 five Behaviors: Traveler First, Think Big, Operate with Excellence, Ownership Mindset, and Succeed Together foster a supportive environment.
  • Expedia Group includes three flagship consumer brands - Expedia, Hotels.com, and Vrbo - along with a leading B2B travel business and travel advertising offerings.
  • Global Crisis Operations provides coordinated, intelligence-driven crisis response across EG's portfolio of brands.
  • Our team spans Seattle, London, and Gurgaon, providing continuous global coverage across natural hazard events, geopolitical crises, aviation disruptions, public health events, and emerging threats.
  • We operate as a cross-functional hub, working daily with Finance, Legal, Government Affairs, Communications, Customer Operations.

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, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.