Expedia Cuts Eight Senior Executives as It Reorganizes Around AI

Expedia Group has eliminated eight senior technology leadership positions as part of a reorganization designed to reshape its Product and Technology organization around artificial intelligence.

The company is shifting authority away from coordinating executives and toward smaller, autonomous AI-focused squads that can work more closely with the individual brands they support. The changes affect the roughly 8,000-person Product and Technology organization, with responsibilities previously held by departing executives being redistributed among remaining technology leaders, the chief information security officer, and finance.

Among those leaving is Sachin Singh, senior vice president of book-to-trip technology. Seven other vice presidents responsible for areas including payments, fraud and risk, and self-service tools are also leaving the company.

According to Expedia’s most recent annual report, approximately half of its 16,000 employees work in technology roles. The company has previously estimated that about 5,000 of those employees are engineers.

Chief Product Officer Shilpa Ranganathan and Chief Technology Officer Ramana Thumu described the restructuring as a response to changes brought by artificial intelligence, saying that AI has significantly changed what is possible and compressed the timelines for technology work.

Under the new structure, Expedia is reorganizing its technology teams into small, cross-functional “end-to-end squads” embedded directly under individual brand product leaders. The aim is to reduce handoffs and coordination overhead while allowing teams to move faster in building and delivering products.

The restructuring centralizes core AI, data, and agentic platforms under Chief AI and Data Officer Xavier Amatriain, while product-building authority is decentralized. CRM and payments are also being moved from Marketing into Product & Technology.

Expedia is reducing senior leadership while continuing to recruit specialized artificial intelligence and “full-stack” engineering talent. The company has opened a technology hub in San Jose and recently hired 10 engineers from Amazon, Netflix, Google, and Meta.

The company said the organizational changes are informed by nine months of internal study showing significant productivity gains among top engineers using AI tools. Expedia also stressed that there is no evidence that AI directly replaced the executives who are leaving.

The restructuring is intended to help Expedia’s product and technology teams work more independently, reduce coordination requirements, and accelerate development across the company’s brands.