Group Product Manager PSS

Air Arabia; Sharjah; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent aviation company based in Sharjah seeks an experienced Product Manager to oversee the product discovery lifecycle. The role requires managing the entire product backlog, facilitating development processes, and ensuring the delivery of high-quality aviation products. The ideal candidate has over 12 years of product management experience, a solid technical background, and a strong grasp of Agile methodologies. This is an exceptional opportunity to lead teams focused on innovation in the aviation industry.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product management in B2B or B2C environments.
• Proven track record leading products throughout their lifecycle.
• Strong technical background with understanding in software development.
• Fluent in English language.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for product discovery lifecycle and success.
• Leads development team, removes roadblocks, and ensures timely delivery of products.
• Manages and prioritizes product backlog aligning with product vision.
• Conducts market research and stays updated with technology trends.

Skills

Product management

Agile methodologies

Technical engineering

Team leadership

Analytical skills

UX design principles

Collaboration tools

Market research

Education

Bachelors Degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent

Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner (CSPO)

Tools

JIRA

Collaboration tools (e.g., Slack)

Job description

Job Purpose

• Responsible for the product discovery lifecycle and its success.
• Identifies potential products in aviation domain and oversees the development of the products concepts in line with commercial objectives
• Approves Artefacts roadmap (long and short term plans) budgets and pricing for product introduction launching and promoting.
• Ensuring delivery of usable emotionally attaching and inspecting products that meet users expectations

Key Result Responsibilities

• Accountable for the success of delivery, owns the entire product backlog and delivery activities, this includes grooming development teams, responding to queries of the development team promptly.
• Guides the development team at each sprint and removes any roadblocks to enhance their performance. Ensures that products are delivered within the timelines agreed.
• Ensures stories are ready before the sprint start, matching definition of ready and having clear acceptance criteria.
• Manages and prioritizes the product backlog along with the Product Manager which matches product vision and client needs.
• Liaise between business and development teams to deliver continuous value.
• Reviews visual designs developed by UX team.

Key Result Responsibilities – Continued

• Reviews test cases written by QA team.
• Stays abreast with market trends and new technologies in the domain, researches and conducts comparative analysis with competitors to recommend best practices.
• Monitors the development and product teams performance and escalates any potential performance deviation to Product Managers.
• Represents ISA in clients meetings, solicits feedback on products and services regularly.
• Performs any other additional duties as directed by the Product Manager,Senior Product Manager.
• Acts as a Product Manager in absence of Product Manager.

Qualifications (Academic, Training, Languages)

• Bachelors Degree in Technical Engineering, Computer Science Math or equivalent
• Certified SCRUM Master or Professional Certified Product Owner or CSPO is a plus
• PMP and Prince II are added value
• Strong technical background with understanding in software development
• Comfortable using collaboration tools such as Slack, JIRA
• Fluent in English Language

Work Experience

• 12 plus years of experience in product management as Product Manager in B2B, B2C enterprise environment working on designing Airlines products or providing IT Airline services such as Ground Handling/PSS/ Crew Management or in an IT Solutions company offering airline products
• Subjectmatter expert in technical management, technical solutions design, and architecture
• Proven track record of leading a successful product throughout its lifecycle and drives decision-making process
• Thorough understanding of UI or UX design previous experience in a similar role is an advantage
• High sensitivity to emotive humandriven design principles combined with solid understanding of commercial market trends and transforming them to design concepts
• Has successfully applied Agile Development and SCRUM Methodologies within the working area
• A motivational leader capable of driving team to deliver the best user interface experience possible
• Strong analytical and synthesis skills are a must including the ability to absorb and process large amounts of data into actionable information
• Expert in market researches and benchmarking studies recognizes and embraces best practices in the domain
• Excellent people and management skills to interact with staff colleagues cross-functional teams and third parties
• Result oriented and has a sharp and artistic eye that recognizes fine art
• Expert in drafting policies and procedures and conducting feasibility studies
• Hands on preparing and analyzing business performance reports
• Comfortable working with financials hand-on preparing budgets and cost estimates
• Employs technical expertise and interpersonal skills to execute new initiatives and achieve companys objectives
• Demonstrates the ability to contribute and successfully deliver against business strategy and set KPIs