Product Manager

Travelport; Slough; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Office shutdown during Christmas

Hybrid working model

Pension contribution

Private medical

Life assurance

Travel insurance

Bonus programme

Job summary

Travelport is seeking a Product Manager for Multi-Source Air Content to lead the development of content that enables end-to-end airline, agency, and content integrations. You will guide the product from discovery through delivery, balancing customer needs with technical feasibility and business goals.

In this hybrid UK role, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams, prioritise the backlog, and drive the product roadmap. Strong analytical thinking and communication are essential for success.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of product management techniques and product owner principles.
• Ability to connect business goals with backlog items for roadmap alignment.
• Clear communication on the product roadmap purpose and vision to the delivery team.

Responsibilities

• Develop deep functional product knowledge and understand the technical composition of supporting systems.
• Define and communicate the product vision and roadmap for internal and external use.
• Research and document customer needs and validate solutions.
• Translate market requirements into epic features, write acceptance criteria, and approve market-fit items (JIRA).
• Collaborate to understand, document, and support portfolio work.
• Serve as a subject matter expert to Travelport tech teams ensuring complete feature definitions.

Skills

Product management

Product owner

Backlog management

Roadmap communication

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Product Manager – Multi‑Source Air Content

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! Search for #Travelport on LinkedIn and hear from our amazing team.

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 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!

• 25 days annual leave per annum
• Christmas working days (office shutdown)
• Hybrid working model
• Pension contribution
• Private medical
• Life assurance
• Personal travel insurance
• Eligible to participate in the bonus programme with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance

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.

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.

About Us

Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation virtual marketplace connects travel buyers and travel sellers, that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences.

Unconflicted and independent, we are re-inventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.

Our platform gives the industry the power to help people see the world. We make it simple for businesses like airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect to agencies and travelers, through personalized and engaging content.

We are a diverse and inclusive workforce, representative of the communities and customers we serve. We are socially responsible, and we give back to our communities.

We encourage our people to think differently and have the courage, confidence, and ambition to challenge what has been done before.

Travelport is on a mission to make Travel easier and more rewarding for everyone.