Product Owner

Company Description

ATPCO is the foundation of flight shopping, providing pricing and retailing data, tools, and services to 500 airlines, global distribution systems, sales channels, and technology companies. In addition, ATPCO links the entire airline community together, collaborating to develop industry standards for airline distribution and end-to-end technology solutions. As a result, ATPCO solutions work seamlessly across existing, new, and evolving technologies and methods from shopping to settlement. Airline-owned and reliably supporting air travel for more than 55 years, ATPCO is everywhere people buy flights.

We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, protected military/veteran status, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, or any other legally protected factor.

Job Description

As a Product Owner, you report to the Product Manager and lead execution of business delivery of product enhancements. Your focus is to develop a deep understanding of your product and its capabilities. This role is responsible for working with the product, engaging with customers and colleagues, and staying abreast of industry trends. Your product is your passion. 

In this role, you will work closely with designers, business analysts, quality analysts, and developers to solve specific customer problems outlined by the Product Manager. Your primary tools are personas, stories, and backlogs, focusing on what features will address selected business problems planned for future releases. 

This role is within ATPCO’s Create The Offer portfolio, which focuses on allowing airlines and their technology providers to most effectively create the offers, price points, and conditions associated with tickets and ancillary purchases. The products you will primarily work on in this portfolio are in growth mode with agile teams that are focused on high velocity product delivery.  

This role will be focused on innovation and out-of-the-box features in our existing products, and new products that support our customers and users on the path to dynamic offer creation. 

Key Responsibilities: 

1. Vision and Goal-Setting: Lay out the vision and goals for the project feature within the overall product development team. Define the target audience for the solution and inspire the team with real stories about real people to help them grasp the vision and goals. 

2. Collaboration and Inspiration: Act as the voice of the customer, representing their needs to the product development team. Collaborate effectively with business analysts, designers, quality, and engineering team members, using real-life examples to drive home the product's vision and persona goals. 

3. Backlog Management and Prioritization: Manage the product backlog diligently. Prioritize deliverables, continually manage the list of stories, and provide context and business value to the team. Clarify success criteria and define specific results for the acceptance of deliverables. 

4. Requirements and Roadmap Development: Assist in requirements definition, adjustments, and clarifications. Help define success criteria. With direction from the Product Manager, create and maintain a feature roadmap that enables a practical delivery approach, solving identified business problems and sequencing the stories for delivery. 

5. Reporting and Monitoring: Monitor and report on the project development status. Keep track of metrics like the number of prioritized items pending, work in progress, items completed pending acceptance, and items accepted. 

6. Customer and Market Expertise: Support the team with product and market expertise, ensuring every team member understands the customer perspective and the market dynamics. 

7. Collaborative Business Focus: While maintaining a business-centric focus, interact with technology stakeholders when necessary, ensuring that technology initiatives align with business requests and product enhancements. 

8. Data Analysis: You back up your roadmap and product decisions by looking at product usage data. Using your technical skillset, you implement systems, logging, and dashboards to report on feature adoption. 

Skills and Competencies: 

- Strong skills in creating and using personas, stories, and backlogs as primary tools for expressing customer needs and product features. 

- Ability to inspire and collaborate with a diverse team, driving them towards a shared vision. 

- Excellent communication skills, capable of conveying complex ideas effectively to various stakeholders. 

- Adept at prioritizing tasks and managing a product backlog to align with business goals. 

- Proficient in monitoring and reporting project progress, with an eye for detail and a commitment to excellence. 

As a Product Owner on our team, you will be pivotal in bridging the gap between customer needs and the technical execution of our product roadmap, all while maintaining a keen focus on solving real business problems. Your role is crucial in ensuring that our product not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers and stakeholders. 

The Ideal Candidate: 

• At least 2 years of experience with Data analysis 

• At least 2 years of experience working with ATPCO subscription data 

• Familiarity with New Distribution Capability, Dynamic Offers, and Web Fare data 

• Experience with product management 

• Experience with writing and communication of business requirements 

• Experience creating wireframes and mockups 

• Experience working with API products 

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel 

• Proficiency with SQL 

• Understanding of basic SaaS business metrics 

Salary Range: $112,950–$160,400

*The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for applicable geographic differential associated with the location*

Additional Information

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