Lead Product Manager

Sabre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,000,000 - 6,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabre is seeking a Lead Product Manager - Dynamic Availability to own the product vision, investment, planning and execution across its life cycle.

You will translate market needs into user stories, guide cross-functional teams, and drive profitability with a strong technical and business background.

Qualifications

• 7 years of experience with Airline technology.
• 3+ years in market-facing roles engaging with customers.
• Strong product and technical background with business sense.
• Excellent English communication and public speaking skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive product vision and strategy, and document business requirements.
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy across the product lifecycle.
• Manage product area P&L and investment decisions.
• Understand market landscape and collect customer input.
• Write stories, backlog items, and acceptance criteria for Scrum teams.
• Lead demos and support sales, engineering, and delivery teams.

Skills

Airline technology experience

Market-facing experience

Product and functional background

Curiosity

Presentation skills

Ownership mindset

Independent work

Collaborative virtual work

Stakeholder management

Organization

Business acumen

English communication

MS Office

Storytelling

Product scoping

Java

C++

SQL

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or Business Administration

Tools

Java

C++

SQL

Job description

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world's largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Team Description

Sabre is looking for a Lead Product Manager - Dynamic Availability who will be responsible for the product vision, investment, planning, and execution throughout its life cycle, including increasing the profitability of existing products and developing new ones, and ensuring the delivery of the best solutions and meeting revenue and customer satisfaction goals. You will be proficient in the product, understand its structure and architecture, its capabilities. You will capture market needs, customer input, usage, data and translate those into user stories that meet customer and market requirements and support the company's strategy and technical innovation goals. The role possesses a unique blend of business and technical skills, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

Role and Responsibilities

• Drive product vision & strategy, business requirements documentation and analysis
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy throughout product life cycle
• Manage the product profit & loss (P&L)
• Manage product area's investment decisions, scope, roadmap, priorities
• Understand/monitor product's competitive and market landscape
• Conduct/attend visits, customer touch-bases, focus groups, conferences
• Support sales engineering and commercial/delivery/care teams
• Be the product's subject-matter expert (SME) inside scrum teams
• Write scrum team stories, acceptance criteria
• Create, refine, prioritize scrum team's backlog, and accept work
• Attend scrum ceremonies and provide guidance to scrum teams
• Analyze, triage and troubleshoot maintenance issues
• Conduct demos (internal or external, as needed)

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• 7 years of experience working with Airline technology
• 3+ years of experience in market-facing roles (e.g. engaging with customers and prospects)
• Business and technology-oriented, with a strong product and functional background
• Abundant curiosity to delve into unfamiliar areas and quickly become proficient
• Ability to present a compelling solution to a business need that is grounded in technology
• Ownership mindset of individual and team objectives; with both tactical and strategic thinking to ensure measurable results
• Ability to work independently and resolve professional, technical or operational project challenges in a creative, methodical manner
• Comfortable working in a team-oriented, highly collaborative virtual environment that is geographically distributed
• Ability to successfully navigate in a multi-stakeholder environment where there are often competing priorities, goals and challenges across our diverse set of internal and external customers and partners
• Excellent self-organization skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize several projects in parallel
• Strong business acumen and situational awareness
• Must have excellent written and verbal English communications skills, and be a strong public speaker comfortable presenting or demonstrating technology in front of large groups at all levels of an organization
• Proficient in Microsoft Office use for presentations and written communication
• Storyteller and story mapper
• Able to well define a product's feature set
• Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related fields
• Experience with Full-Service Carriers, Low-Cost Carriers or Travel Agencies
• Knowledge of emerging trends in travel retailing and e-commerce (such as AI/ML, dynamic offers, etc.)
• Tech-savvy, ability to engage with Engineering colleagues to drive technical solutions
• Experience with software development process with Java, C++, SQL is a plus

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.