Job Title
Senior Product Owner
Common accountabilities:
- Has working experience and advanced and specialized technical/functional knowledge in own discipline. Understands how own area contributes to the business. Acts as a reference for colleagues with less experience and supports junior team members.
- Influences decisions related to own activity, anticipating dependencies and consequences in complex scenarios, contributes to transversal projects, proposes improvements to processes and is accountable for own and team commitments.
- Works independently within plan dictated by manager, with some guidance on most complex situations.
Specific accountabilities:
Understand, identify and define customer needs
* Transform the high-level vision of the Product Manager into detailed requirements, working closely with a range of stakeholders for the product, including non-customer stakeholders such as finance, security, operations, support, audit, and others.
* Consolidate and articulate business needs into new product concepts or upgrades, and interact with Product Managers to develop user stories or features affecting the team backlog
Contribute to the product vision and roadmap
* Define and continuously develop the product vision & the business value in line with the business owners, product managers, SAFe ART Product Management, other Product Owners & agile teams
Support the product features definition (scoping)
* With the support of the Agile team, lead the definition and prioritization of the Features or user stories, based on customer needs and value, to deliver based on market and business needs
* Consider and prioritize amongst all Features the enabler work and sequence the architectural runway in collaboration with Architects/Engineering
* Collaborate with other teams across the group to ensure coherent prioritization, product alignment, marketing and user experience across various ARTs/Products/Groups. This includes (but is not limited to) Business Owners, SAFe ART Product Management, other POs, PMKs, UX, other groups, SAFe RTEs and Architects
Manage, prioritize and communicate the flow of work
* Ensure the features and user stories backlogs are reprioritized before each release and sprint planning session
* Constantly align and communicate with respective agile counterparts and leadership team
* Do sufficient analysis to ensure requirements are ready to be worked on
* Document, analyze, trace, prioritize and agree on requirements and then control change and communicate to relevant stakeholders
* Work closely with delivery teams to ensure they build the right functionality in a timely manner
* Is involved with ongoing testing efforts
Participate to Agile events
* Accept stories prior Sprint review
* Actively participate to team coordination meetings, PO synchronization meetings, draft plan reviews and management meeting
* Actively participate to System demos and Inspect & Adapt workshops if in SAFe
* Actively contribute to the Community of Practice of Product Owners
* Organize demos
Contribute to product promotion
* Provide key information & communicate value on the product, to define the Value proposition
* Define a succession of strategies as a product goes through its product life cycle
* Contribute to the pilot plan with Product Marketing and other associated teams & BUs
* Share content for product documentation, sales tools and collateral
* Create standard and tailor-made presentations, and demo scripts showing product value
* Give presentations, demos and familiarization sessions to customers and customer-facing teams (for them to perform them). Once the product has been piloted, standard presentations should be performed by customer-facing teams
* Participate to the preparation of key events, guaranteeing the success of product launch and follow up
* Contribute to RFP/RFI for the product
Diversity & Inclusion
Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.
Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.
Top Skills
What We Do
Travel powers progress. Amadeus powers travel. Amadeus’ solutions connect travelers to the journeys they want, linking them via travel agents, search engines and tour operators to airlines, airports, hotels, cars and railways.
Technology has always been critical to developing global travel, increasing scale, choice and access. We have developed our technology in partnership with the travel industry for 30 years.
We combine a deep understanding of how people travel with the ability to design and deliver the most complex, trusted, and critical systems our customers need.
