Senior Product Manager

Sabre; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sabre in Bengaluru seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the product vision, roadmap, and profitability across its lifecycle, blending business and technical insight to deliver market-leading travel tech solutions.

You will translate market needs into user stories, guide Scrum teams, manage P&L, and collaborate with customers, engineering, and sales to achieve revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in Airline technology.
• 3 years in market-facing roles engaging with customers and prospects.
• Strong product and functional background with business acumen.
• Excellent written and verbal English communications; strong public speaking.
• Ability to present solutions grounded in technology and manage multiple projects.

Responsibilities

• Drive product vision, strategy, and business requirements.
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy throughout the life cycle.
• Manage product area’s P&L and investment decisions.
• Write and refine user stories with acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize backlog and guide Scrum teams; conduct demos as needed.

Skills

Airline technology

Market-facing experience

Product leadership

English communication

Public speaking

Cross-functional collaboration

Story mapping

Microsoft Office

Java

C++

SQL

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or Business

Tools

Microsoft Office

Java

C++

SQL

Job description

Team Description

Sabre is looking for a Senior Product Manager that 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

• 5 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