Principal Product Owner

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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. Sabre is looking for a Principal Product Owner in the Sabre Payments product team. The team is at the forefront of Sabre's technical innovation, focusing on seamless payment experiences and integration of cutting-edge fintech and AI capabilities into our core product ecosystem. As a Principal Product Owner, you will be the primary driver for the vision, investment and lifecycle execution of Sabre Payments products. The Product Owner 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 Manage the product profit & loss (P&L) Manage 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 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: Education : Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field. 5+ years of product management experience launching and scaling products at SaaS companies 5+ years of experience working within travel and/or payments/fintech (Preferred) 4+ 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 Storyteller and story mapper Able to well define a product's feature set Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science, Business Administration or related fields Experience with Full-Service Carriers, Low-Cost Carriers or Travel Agencies 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 hour