Senior Product Owner - Digital Connect

Job description

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide. Digital Connect is seeking an experienced Senior Product Owner. Digital Connect is a middleware orchestration platform that enables seamless eCommerce integrations, allowing airlines to power their Internet Booking Engines. This role sits at the intersection of shopping, ancillaries, payments, APIs, and digital commerce , ensuring scalable, reliable, and innovative capabilities that support the end-to-end customer booking and servicing experience. You will work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact features, optimize platform performance, and enable growth across the partner ecosystem. You will contribute to the product vision, investment strategy, planning, and execution across the Digital Connect lifecycle, with a focus on driving profitability and business impact. This includes developing new capabilities, delivering high-quality solutions, and meeting revenue and customer satisfaction targets. You will develop deep expertise in the product, including its architecture, capabilities, and integration patterns. Leveraging market insights, customer feedback, usage data, and industry trends, you will translate requirements into clear user stories that align with customer needs, company strategy, and technical innovation goals. This role requires a strong blend of business acumen and technical expertise , along with strategic thinking and a results-driven mindset to turn vision into reality. Role and Responsibilities: Own the translation of eCommerce customer needs into clear, actionable product requirements across all Digital Connect platforms, spanning the full booking and post-booking lifecycle Support in prioritizing a backlog of features, enhancements, regulatory mandates, balancing customer value, risk, and delivery capacity. Write scrum team features, user stories and acceptance criteria. Attend scrum ceremonies and provide guidance to scrum team Be the product's subject-matter expert (SME) inside scrum teams Ensure alignment to technology strategy throughout product life cycle Analyze, triage and troubleshoot maintenance issues Conduct demos (internal or external, as needed) Contribute to product area’s investment decisions, scope, roadmap, priorities 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 Qualifications and Education Requirements: 4+ years of experience working with Airline technology, travel platforms, or related enterprise systems Proven experience as a Product Manager delivering complex software products. Experience translating complex workflows into simple, intuitive user experiences. Demonstrated success working with cross‑functional, globally distributed teams. Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage both technical and non‑technical audiences. Business and technology-oriented, with a strong product and functional background Abundant curiosity to delve into unfamiliar areas and quickly become proficient 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 This role requires an AI‑first approach to product ownership. The successful candidate is expected to use AI tools extensively across customer engagement, requirements definition, backlog management, analysis, documentation, and communication to accelerate delivery and improve quality, while operating within Sabre’s AI governance and security standards. Proficient in Postman , creating UML diagrams 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 software development process with Java, C++, SQL is a plus Work arrangements Hybrid working mode; 3 chosen days from the office in a week Flexible working hours: Maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs Paid time off Year-End-Break: enjoy additional fully paid days off during the last week of the year Paid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies. Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice Your money My Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax Employee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury Baby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption Say Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services Health and wellness Luxmed medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package Employee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health Life insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program Career development Professional development: access to e-learning platforms as well as join Sabre live learning sessions Certification and tuition reimbursement Our Communities: join one of our team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group, Innovation Lab Community, Women in Technology, SOLVE!T and many more) And more Car and bike parking Fun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work, foosball, ping pong, pool table, swings, massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents’ rooms as well No dress code Innovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment, Robot construction kit, 3D printers and many more Attractive Referral Bonus: earn $2500 USD for every hired referral We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as we progress your application. Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will proceed in the selection process. Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. #LI-Hybrid#LI-KG1