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 Technical Product Manager do?
The Technical Product Manager (TPM) role in the Access UI Pillar sits within the Technology organization and represents the customer on the Agile team. It is the Technical Product Manager’s responsibility to ensure the team is focused on the right work and priority and to help the team achieve their sprint commitments by providing clear and complete requirements.
What is Smartpoint Cloud?
Smartpoint Cloud is a web-based point of sale platform designed to be the best product in its class in the market. It offers a flexible, fast and intuitive way of shopping and booking travel content by our large network of travel agency customers. Built using the latest technologies available in the industry, Smartpoint Cloud will enable Travelport to be the partner of choice for those in our industry who are excited by new ideas and new ways of doing things.
Responsibilities:
- Accountable for synchronizing with the Product Manager/s and other TPM’s to ensure new work is brought into the backlog and prioritized appropriately
- Responsible for developing user stories from collated requirements by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to align the product design and development activities to deliver ROI
- Responsible for ensuring everyone in the team understands the user story and is aligned in the sprint
- Responsible for prioritization of the team backlog
- Accountable for coordinating with the product delivery team(s) and design colleagues to ensure the required activities are delivered to sufficient/agreed quality, time and budget
- Accountable for working with the development team/s and architecture to implement the user stories including all undocumented edge cases and non-functional requirements
- Participating in daily stand ups, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews
- Responsible for User Acceptance Criteria & Sign Off
- Accountable for system demos
- The TPM will develop deep functional product knowledge and an understanding of the technical composition of systems that support it
What we look for/who would prosper in this role?
- 1 –3 years of Technical Product Manager, Product Owner and/or Business Analyst experience.
- Working knowledge of Agile principles
- Exposure to technical concepts, product owner techniques, tools & principles
- Exposure to Behavior Driven Development
- Experience providing online documentation and other resources to external users
- Technical/Developer background is a plus
- Excellent verbal, written and ‘attention to detail skills.
- Ability and desire to work with people all over the world
- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams and facilitate conversations that lead to agreed direction.
- Capacity to seek consensus and agreement across multiple stakeholders, bringing diverse opinions together
- Ability to resolve conflict for the team and within the team; influencing internal stakeholders
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!
These are just a few of our employee’s favorite benefits/perks…
Competitive base salary, yearly bonus, private medical insurance, pension plan, meal tickets, gym sub, very generous holiday allowance, flexi Fridays and more!!
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.
