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.

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 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.

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