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About Engine Engine is the all-in-one travel and spend management platform trusted by 38K+ businesses and groups representing 1.8M+ travelers. We're the retailer and the rails of business travel, one of the fastest-growing companies in travel tech, built on a decade of proprietary technology, supply, and pricing no one else can replicate. Other travel and AI companies run on our infrastructure to book real trips, hold rates, and move payments, without building any of it themselves.
We built it, AI-forward at every layer, from how travelers book to how the rails run. That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020–2026). We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career.
Every hire raises the bar. Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us. About the Role Engine is looking for a Director, Connectivity Partnerships to build the partnerships and connectivity that expand what supply we can offer and how seamlessly customers can book it. The primary focus of this role is group travel — one of the largest and most underserved opportunities in business travel — where Engine is building the technology and partnerships to make booking a group as simple as booking a single room.
This role sits at the intersection of strategy, partnerships, product, and connectivity, and owns group travel end to end on the supply side. You will shape how we build across the group booking lifecycle and lead the partner discussions that bring that strategy to life with hotel chains, travel partners, and platforms across the ecosystem. Groups is a large, standalone opportunity, and this role is built for someone to own it at depth, with room to grow as Engine's connectivity surfaces expand.
You will operate as a senior leader working closely with executives and across Supply, Product, Engineering, Operations, and Partnerships. This is a builder's role: you will turn an ambitious vision for group travel into a clear strategy, a prioritized connectivity roadmap, and a set of signed, activated partnerships that expand what Engine can offer customers. What You'll Do Own Engine's group connectivity strategy — defining how group bookings move across partners and platforms, and where we build first to unlock supply Set the strategy for deeper group connectivity, translating a north-star vision into a prioritized, buildable roadmap across the group booking lifecycle Lead the supply and connectivity partnerships that power group travel — with hotel chains, connectivity providers, technology platforms, and intermediaries — from first conversation through signed, activated agreements Contribute to Engine's broader connectivity strategy — bringing a partnerships and technical perspective to how supply connects across the platform, in close partnership with Supply and Lodging leadership Build relationships with connectivity providers and technology partners that support our group travel platform and Engine's wider supply surfaces Partner closely with Product and Engineering to shape group connectivity capabilities and integrations, informing the roadmap from a strategy and partnership lens Act as a subject-matter expert on the group travel landscape, connectivity models, and the technology that moves group bookings across the ecosystem Establish how Engine sequences and prioritizes group connectivity investments against finite engineering capacity and clear commercial outcomes Serve as a senior external representative of Engine in complex, multi-stakeholder group and connectivity partnerships Monitor industry trends across group travel, meetings, distribution, and connectivity to info