About Engine
Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel. For a decade, Engine has built the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel, serving over 40,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, along with leading travel and AI companies that build on Engine's infrastructure. One system powers business travel, group travel, human agents, and AI agents.
That work has earned Engine recognition as TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), a spot on Inc.'s Power Partners list (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 Engine
At Engine, we're transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we're here to change that.
We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That's why we're building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.
To make this vision real, we're looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.
More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry-leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world-class personalization and convenience.
Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In's Best Places to Work.
About the Role
As Sr. Strategic Partner Manager, Lodging , you will own a portfolio of regional hotel chain partnerships, working directly with centralized brand teams, franchise and ownership networks, and regional revenue leadership to drive chain-wide growth and expansion.
These regional chains have a central brand organization and franchise network similar to larger global brands, but with a footprint concentrated in one country or region. Your mandate is to take Engine's existing presence within these organizations and turn it into a complete, standardized partnership — expanding rate health, distribution adoption, and marketing campaign spend across their properties.
This is a highly strategic, commercially focused role. You will lead executive-level relationships and negotiations, build chain-level account strategies, and translate market data into compelling business cases that drive measurable revenue growth. You will be accountable for incremental net revenue generated through rate health across your book, as well as advertising revenue consumption.
Regional hotel chains often operate with lean central teams, so success requires a proactive, hands-on approach to building relationships and driving adoption across corporate leadership, franchise owners, and individual properties. You'll also help establish the playbook for how Engine scales its regional chain partnerships, creating repeatable processes and strategies that can be adopted across the team.
This is an individual contributor role for an experienced commercial leader who brings executive presence, strong analytical instincts, and the ability to operate independently in a fast-moving environment.
What You'll Do
Own a portfolio of regional hotel chain partnerships end-to-end, developing and executing account strategies that drive chain-wide growth and…