Senior AI Platform Product Lead

American Airlines; Fort Worth (TX); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel Perks

Health Benefits

Wellness Programs

401(k) Program

Other Benefits

Job summary

American Airlines seeks a Senior Product Manager to drive product strategy and leading cross-functional teams across engineering and business partners. You will shape roadmaps, define success metrics, and ensure delivery aligns with business priorities.

Strong leadership, deep product sense, and fluent communication with executives are essential, along with a track record of scaling complex digital products in a regulated industry.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Technology, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field.
• 7+ years of experience delivering solutions using ITIL/Agile/Xp, or similar methodologies.
• 5+ years of experience leading product teams.
• Airline industry experience preferred, including engineering/business processes and supporting technology.

Responsibilities

• Exhibits strong business and leadership skills, deep technology perspective to guide solutions, strong product thinking, and strong communication skills to coordinate with Business Partners, Engineers and Engineering Managers to ensure they understand business needs and objectives, as well as technical requirements of products
• Have a deep understanding of Product Management methods, customer outcome focus, and product performance and success metrics
• Collaborates with Business and IT leadership to execute and communicate organization’s technical vision, mission, and work priorities, and drives progress towards roadmaps and ensures efficient technical product management and effective communication with stakeholders
• Create a clear strategic direction across multiple engineering teams to align with technical direction as well as business priorities
• Supports an environment for engineering teams to be self-governing organizations who are accountable for their own performance and delivery commitments and measured accordingly
• Removes roadblocks, cultivates relationships, and effectively communicates across IT and at various levels of leadership
• Responsible for budget management, forecasting, resource allocation, and long-term planning to drive alignment with business priorities
• Escalation point for production issues and off-hours support, communication, and coordination

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Agile methodologies

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Financial acumen

Education

Bachelor's degree in Technology/CS/related

Master's degree in relevant field

Job description

American Airlines seeks a Senior Product Manager to drive product strategy and leading cross-functional teams across engineering and business partners. You will shape roadmaps, define success metrics, and ensure delivery aligns with business priorities.

Strong leadership, deep product sense, and fluent communication with executives are essential, along with a track record of scaling complex digital products in a regulated industry.