Job Description
Product Manager | Pricing | Denver, CO, US
Travelport is a place of opportunity. It’s our incredible team that makes our company great – our people drive our winning culture.
What’s Travelport?
Travelport is a worldwide travel retail platform. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.
What does a great Product Manager do?
We are currently seeking a Product Manager to join our Global Product Management team. If you want to be challenged every day, if you want to work with a team to identify solutions to some of the travel industry’s most challenging issues for some of the world’s most technologically sophisticated travel companies and if you are intensely interested in the complexity of products that drive real-time simultaneous transactions in multiple systems around the world with ongoing data synchronization, then this may be the right job for you.
Product Manager: Pricing is responsible for maintaining and evolving our entire pricing platform. Pricing is the heart of our search systems as well. A successful PM will look for ways to leverage the pricing system to evolve search as well create capabilities that drive efficiencies for our customers. The PM will engage with other PM across Travelport as they interact with the platform. The successful candidate will be part of a team that closely collaborates with our global customer base, which includes the world’s largest airlines, online and offline travel agencies and travel metasearch companies.
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for working in concert with the Product Marketing team on market sensing, defining the target customer, what problems they have and the needs the product will address, developing understanding of how the product measures up to competition, and what makes it unique.
- Responsible for collaborating with customers to develop a deep understanding of their customers’ market and their business processes; will communicate the product roadmap and actively pursue feedback using the appropriate artefact.
- Represent Travelport at relevant industry working groups and actively contribute to the design of industry solutions. Accountable for managing industry mandates and for executing on the delivery of these.
- Accountable for executing the product roadmap, facilitating collaboration with internal stakeholders to deliver the product plans and help drive the anticipated value agreed as part of the planning process.
- Works with a team of Product Managers and Product Owners, and is accountable for driving the quality of the entire product lifecycle for each product under management; acts as an escalation point and is responsible for managing all dependencies across the product families.
- The Product Manager has content authority for the Program Backlog and is accountable for accepting features as done.
- Responsible for coordinating and leading the governance of the activities associated with the Product. Enabling a review of the interdependencies between products and scrutinizing performance and delivery against the plan.
- Ensure that all activities are in compliance with regulatory and legal requirements
- Responsible for researching and staying up to date with market, design thinking, technology and competitor trends through the appropriate use of tools, resources and stakeholders to qualify new product pipeline opportunities, which will help realize the Product Family Strategy, KPIs and KRs. Accountable for using tools and frameworks to make data driven decisions to test out hypotheses.
- Accountable for tracking and reporting on status and metrics; forecasting and monitoring the product TCO and product development/management activities against the agreed plan, managing and reporting potential overruns and the performance against the agreed KPIs, KR and the proposed ROI.
What we look for/who would prosper in this role?
- A good understanding of tech and travel industry trends and functionality and the ability to translate this knowledge into new product ideas and enhancements.
- Demonstrable familiarity with interfacing and synchronizing multiple systems, including external systems, which both push and pull data.
- Background in airline fares and pricing and ATPCO data is a plus.
- 3+ years product manager experience working with agile development teams preferred.
- Experience of working with and sound understanding of PDLC, Product Management principles, methodologies and tools in a SAFe or Lean/Agile environment.
- SAFe certification is a plus (SAFe POPM, SAFe Agile Product Manager, SAFe for Teams, Leading SAFe, SAFe Lean Management).
- Comfortable with data and using data to drive decisions.
- Communication and influencing skills: adept in communicating technical concepts, scheduling trade-offs and championing new ideas with tech and non-tech stakeholders.
- Effectively communicates the product vision and product roadmap to stakeholders
- Leadership skills: portraying passion to motivate others to build great products and create a shared vision across a multi disciplined and/or virtual team
- Strong process and governance experience;
- Ambassadorship: professionally represent the product through compelling product demos internally and externally
- Bachelor’s Degree; MBA preferred
As we evolve and grow as a business, so will you.
You will thrive within an inclusive and diverse workplace where you are encouraged to think differently, and have the courage, confidence & ambition to challenge what’s been done before, and be bold to win!
Benefits of working at Travelport
We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance. We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, disability, life, a competitive 401(k) match.
We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.
Salary Target: $110,000-$115,000
The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training.
Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!
*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.*
We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.