Product Manager

Travelport; Langley Park; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave per year

Pension contribution

Private medical

Life assurance

Personal travel insurance

Job summary

Travelport is seeking a Product Manager – Multi Source Air Content to own the product vision and roadmap for travel content delivered via APIs and agency POS. You’ll translate market needs into epics, write acceptance criteria, and partner with delivery teams to prioritise value and ROI.

You’ll collaborate with other product managers to ensure content integration across initiatives and guide the lifecycle from concept to sunsetting, using data-driven decisions and Lean principles.

Qualifications

• Knowledge and implementation of product management and product owner techniques, tools & principles.
• Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for alignment with Product strategy.
• Communicate effectively on the purpose and vision of the product roadmap to the wider delivery team and their role in delivering or contributing to the business outcomes.
• Effective management, prioritisation and ownership & accountability for the product backlog; stakeholder management of the backlog and ability to say "no" where items don't make sense for the bigger picture.

Responsibilities

• Developing deep functional product knowledge and understanding the technical composition of systems that support it.
• Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap for internal and external consumption.
• Researching and collaborating to understand and document customer needs and validate solutions.
• Translating high-level market requirements into epic level features, authoring acceptance criteria, and providing product acceptance to ensure market needs are met, using tools such as JIRA.
• Collaborating to understand, document, and support portfolio work.
• Serving as a subject matter expert to Travelport technical teams ensuring a complete functional definition of the desired features.

Skills

Product management

Product owner

Stakeholder management

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Travel obsessed? Big tech fan? Hey, you’re in good company. If you want to be part of the industry that makes the world go round, then look no further.

Travelport is the brains behind lots of your travel bookings—plane, car or hotel. Our technology is used to book that magical holiday, infamous bachelorette party or long overdue school reunion. While we can’t solve mosquito bites or lost luggage, we can simplify a lot of the technical parts of travel, and we’re looking for the best thinkers to help us do it.

We’re hiring right now for a Product Manager – Multi Source Air Content!

How you’ll make an impact:

What does a great Product Manager do?

The Product Manager is responsible for identifying our customer needs in the travel industry market, understanding those needs by creating clear and defined features and lean business cases. Supporting an Agile Product Delivery Customer Centric approach in defining, building, and releasing a continuous flow of value and services to the customer.

Guiding the work through Lean product management and developing and executing on the product vision and product roadmap, the Product Manager identifies customer needs to articulate value propositions that will drive the optimum return on investment for their product.

The Product Manager will be versed in multi-source technology, specifically content that enables end-to-end capabilities through API and agency point of sale. The Product Manager influences the vision and direction to the delivery teams around value pursuit, feature prioritisation and feature-level acceptance criteria. The Product Manager will apply analytics and quantitative, data-driven decision-making models to inform business decisions coupled with the ability to think creatively about constraints. Responsible for entire product lifecycle including sunsetting of products.

This role requires extensive collaboration with other product managers to ensure integration of content and prioritisation across many initiatives.

Your role in action:

• Developing deep functional product knowledge and understanding the technical composition of systems that support it.
• Developing and communicating the product vision and roadmap for internal and external consumption.
• Researching and collaborating to understand and document customer needs and validate solutions.
• Translating high-level market requirements into epic level features, authoring acceptance criteria, and providing product acceptance to ensure market needs are met, using tools such as JIRA.
• Collaborating to understand, document, and support portfolio work.
• Serving as a subject matter expert to Travelport technical teams ensuring a complete functional definition of the desired features.

Could this be you?

• Knowledge and implementation of product management and product owner techniques, tools & principles.
• Ability to clearly express the connections between larger business goals and small backlog items for alignment with Product strategy.
• Communicate effectively on the purpose and vision of the product roadmap to the wider delivery team and their role in delivering or contributing to the business outcomes.
• Effective management, prioritisation and ownership & accountability for the product backlog; stakeholder management of the backlog and ability to say "no" where items don't make sense for the bigger picture.

Discover why our teams love working here

Where do we start! Our benefits package includes:

• We offer a package that includes 25 days annual leave per annum, plus Christmas working days (office shutdown)
• Pension contribution,
• Private medical,
• Life assurance
• Personal travel insurance.

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus programme with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance.

Search for #LifeAtTravelport & #TravelportGDL for our employee stories on LinkedIn!

Your journey at Travelport starts here.

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.