Sabre is a technology company that powers the global travel industry. By leveraging next-generation technology, we create global technology solutions that take on the biggest opportunities and solve the most complex challenges in travel.
Positioned at the center of the travel, we shape the future by offering innovative advancements that pave the way for a more connected and seamless ecosystem as we power mobile apps, online travel sites, airline and hotel reservation networks, travel agent terminals, and scores of other solutions.
Simply put, we connect people with moments that matter.
Product General Job Description (MUST BE EDITED FOR SPECIFIC JOB POSTING):
Team Description
Sabre is looking for a 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
- 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:
- 3 years of experience working with Hotel domain and travel 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
- Able to well define a product’s feature set
- Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related fields
- 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 the software development process
We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as your application progresses.
Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.
What We Do
We are a software and technology company that powers the global travel industry. With decades of revolutionary firsts, our team of experts drive innovation and ingenuity in the industry.
Today, we are creating a new marketplace for personalized travel. We partner with airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other travel partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel. We are committed to helping customers operate more efficiently, drive revenue and offer personalized traveler experiences with next-generation technology solutions.
Positioned at the center of the business of travel, our platform connects people with experiences that matter in their lives.
Sabre's technology powers the nearly US$8 trillion travel industry. Our technology and data-driven solutions help our airline, hotel, travel agency and corporate customers grow their businesses and transform the traveler experience. The scale, breadth and depth of our technology is unmatched and sustains a complex industry.
We provide an open and stable platform to deliver flexible, reliable and scalable solutions. Over the years, we have shaped and modernized the travel industry. We pioneered online travel agencies, corporate booking tools, revenue management, and web and mobile itinerary tools, to name a few.
Our travel marketplace transacts more than US$120 billion of travel spend per year. And we are the world’s largest provider of airline and hotel technology.
We have been named to the InformationWeek 500 list of the most innovative technology companies for 11 consecutive years. And InformationWeek named Sabre seventh on its list of the “Greatest Software Ever Written.”