Senior Product Owner

For more than 40 years, Accelya has been the industry’s partner for change, simplifying airline financial and commercial processes and empowering the air transport community to take better control of the future. Whether partnering with IATA on industry-wide initiatives or enabling digital transformation to simplify airline processes, Accelya drives the airline industry forward and proudly puts control back in the hands of airlines so they can move further, faster. 

As a Product Owner (PO) at Accelya, you bridge the gap between the customer and business and needs and the development organisation. You ensure that product and technology teams work together daily to make sure the delivery of products that customers love.

As part of the Product and Technology organisation, you represent the business and customer within the Agile team working together with the Product Manager (PM), who defines why and what should be done, with what can be done, collaborating daily with the development team and development manager to ensure the use cases, acceptance tests are well understood, sized and the backlog is prioritized.

Duties & Responsibilities

• In close partnership with the PM, as the PO you are responsible for the development stage of the product lifecycle, ensuring the customer and business voice is well understood throughout.

• By working with key stakeholders (PM, Architects etc.) you can create the requirements, user stories and acceptances tests that provide the freedom to the technology team to solve challenges, while making sure the product is solving the real business challenge.
• You understand the market and transformations occurring in the customer base, you represent the customer (buyer) and user (business user or end customer) in the planning process and prioritize the backlog.
• You work with the development management and team on estimations and expected release times, holding stakeholders account to commitments.
• You work with the teams planning and managing the backlog and allocate that work to the development capacity aligned with the PM’s guidance.
• You welcome feedback and adapt plans from internal and external stakeholders and ensure quality, security and design are parts of every iteration.

Knowledge, Experience & Skills

• 6+ years professional experience in Product Owner roles.
• Experience in the travel industry.
• Expertise in designing end-to-end workflow solutions, leveraging NDC.
• Experience diagramming solutions, e.g. sequence diagram, logical data models etc.
• Experience in platform/API solutions along with business user front ends.
• Demonstrate technical curiosity and passion for exploring new technologies for future technical roadmap via continuous learning and self-development.
• Worked in Agile teams with a benefit of training or certification. An added benefit of SAFe processes.

What do we offer?

• Remote US
• Health, dental and vision insurance
• Flexible working hours
• Work-life balance
• Unlimited access to learning platforms

Equal Opportunity

Accelya is an equal opportunity action employer committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law, ordinance or regulation.
About Accelya 

Accelya is a leading global software provider to the airline industry, powering 200+ airlines with an open, modular software platform that enables innovative airlines to drive growth, delight their customers and take control of their retailing.  

Owned by Vista Equity Partners long-term perennial fund and with 2K+ employees based around 10 global offices, Accelya are trusted by industry leaders to deliver now and deliver for the future.  

The company´s passenger, cargo, and industry platforms support airline retailing from offer to settlement, both above and below the wing. Accelya are proud to deliver leading-edge technologies to our customers including through our partnership with AWS and through the pioneering NDC expertise of our Global Product teams.

We are proud to enable innovation-led growth for the airline industry and put control back in the hands of airlines. 

For more information, please visit www.accelya.com 

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