About the role
The candidate will have responsibilities across the following functions:
Product Execution:
- Lead and partner with the IT squad to execute a customer-centric product vision, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility.
- Drive collaboration to deliver meaningful value through effective execution and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Understand the features being brought into an increment cycle that will have an impact on the product squad.
- Socialise the impacted features with the product squad
- Work with the product squad to write the user stories with clear and concise acceptance criteria
- Actively engage in squad demos from the squad members and accept the stories based on the acceptance criteria defined
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to learning the intricacies of the product area, striving to gain expertise that enables you to make informed, strategic contributions to the development process.
Squad Collaboration:
- Actively participate in all squad ceremonies, including Daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure alignment and effective delivery of value.
- Facilitate the backlog refinement meeting to collaborate with the squad members on arriving at clear and unambiguous acceptance criteria for the prioritised backlog.
- Splitting bigger work items into smaller ones that can be delivered in a Sprint.
- Facilitate the sprint demos and show working software to the stakeholders to receive feedback and incorporate it in the backlog.
- Coordinate with other Product Owners to align cross-squad efforts and maintain coherence in product development
- Participate in Product Owner community of practice to learn from each other's experience.
Stakeholder Engagement:
- Maintain open lines of communication with Product Managers and relevant stakeholders to review feature progress.
- Work closely with stakeholders and Product Managers to contribute to the overarching product vision and strategy with data-driven and evidence-based ideation and iterative solutioning.
Agile Advocacy:
- Understand agile practices and promote best practices within the squad.
- Utilise tools like Agility and Aha! for effective product management and ensure data hygiene to track progress accurately.
AI Product Readiness and Application:
- Demonstrates the ability to think forward about how AI may improve products, decisions, workflows, and customer or employee experiences.
- Applies AI thinking in ways appropriate to the maturity of the product, team, and environment.
- This may range from building foundational awareness and identifying practical use cases, to enabling responsible experimentation, to shaping scalable AI-enabled capabilities and broader product or ecosystem readiness.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 4+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or similar technology-focused roles.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, or similar role, in a dynamic and agile environment.
- Strong understanding of agile practices and principles, with a certification in Agile methodology preferred.
- Excellent collaboration, self-leadership, and stakeholder management skills to work with diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
- Ability to prioritise tasks efficiently and adapt to rapidly changing priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to create clear and effective reports.
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Working knowledge or exposure to AI / Agentic development environments (e. g., Amazon Kiro or similar) to support specifying, prototyping, and collaboration with engineering teams.
- Experience within the airline, travel, or large enterprise technology environments preferred.