Lead Product Manager - Airline Experience & AI

Overview

Lead the product vision, investment, planning and execution for Sabre's Airline Experiences and AI team, with primary ownership of the Travel Data products (Streaming and Batch, QIK, and Data Connect).

What you'll do

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

What you'll need

• 3 years of experience working with airline technology
• 2 years of experience in market-facing roles (e.g. engaging with customers and prospects)
• Up to 1 year of AI-driven project experience
• 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 navigate a multi-stakeholder environment with competing priorities, goals and challenges across diverse 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
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, and a strong public speaker comfortable presenting or demonstrating technology to large groups at all levels of an organization
• Proficient in Microsoft Office for presentations and written communication
• Storyteller and story mapper
• Able to well define a product's feature set
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or a related field
• Strong knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint

Nice to have

• 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, with the ability to engage with Engineering colleagues to drive technical solutions
• Experience with the software development process

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
• Work mode: Hybrid