Job Title
Senior Product Owner
Role Overview
We are looking for a domain-expert Product Owner to lead a critical team
within our Air portfolio. This role acts as the Voice of the Customer/customer facing stakeholders, translating high-level vision into actionable requirements. The ideal candidate brings a strong Product Mindset, moving beyond simple execution to drive value, innovation, and business outcomes within a SAFe environment.
Key Accountabilities
- Product Vision & Roadmap:
- Strategy: Define and continuously develop the product vision and business value in
alignment with Business Owners, Product Managers, and SAFe ART management.
- Customer Needs: Understand, identify, and define customer needs, transforming
the high-level vision into detailed requirements.
- Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with Finance, Security, Operations, and
Audit to ensure holistic product definition.
- Backlog Management & Execution:
- Backlog Ownership: Create, maintain, and prioritize the team backlog. Apply best
agile practices (vertical slicing, refinement, prioritization).
- Feature Definition: Lead the definition of Features and User Stories. Balance new
features with enabler work and architectural runway in collaboration with
Architects/Engineering.
- AI Usage : Ensure effective use of AI tools to efficiently create user stories and
validate documents and test cases.
- Quality Assurance: Accept finished user stories, ensuring work meets acceptance criteria and definitions of done.
- SAFe & Agile Ceremonies:
- Team Level: Participate actively in Daily Scrums, Iteration Planning, Retrospectives, and Demos.
- ART Level: Actively participate in PI Planning, PO Sync, ART Sync, and System Demos. Work closely with the ART PM to ensure alignment between team and program backlogs.
- Community: Contribute to the Community of Practice (CoP) for Product Owners.
- Product Promotion & Lifecycle:
- Value Proposition: Communicate the product value proposition and contribute to
pilot plans with Product Management.
- Go-to-Market: Support product launches, create demo scripts, and provide
familiarization sessions for customer-facing teams.
- Stakeholder Mgmt: Influence decisions, anticipate dependencies in complex
scenarios, and act as a reference for junior team members.
Must-Have Qualifications
- Methodologies: Proven experience in Agile (Scrum) and SAFe (Scaled Agile
Framework).
- Product Mindset: Ability to focus on outcome-driven delivery rather than just
output.
Domain Expertise: Travel and Airline - Preferred
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.
