Product Owner - Air Content
Etraveli Group, Greece
Job Description
Who we are
Etraveli Group is a leading global platform for flights, an air technology company connecting millions of flights and travelers across the globe. The company is the exclusive provider of flights to booking.com in Europe and recently entered into an acquisition agreement with Booking Holdings pending competition clearance.
We want our customers to experience the world, while we take care of the technology that enables traveling. Every minute we close hundreds of deals for our partners around the globe. We are the preferred partner of some of the world’s most prominent travel companies such as Booking.com, Google Flights, Skyscanner and Kayak.
At the same time, we open endless possibilities for our employees. Our diverse team of more than 2000 passionate professionals is what makes us the best in what we do. The Group headquarters are located in Sweden while different parts of the Group’s operation are led from the countries where we have offices (Greece, Canada, India), with the Athens office being one of the largest, hosting around 500 employees working from the center of Athens for the rest of the world.
We know that the travel business is not just a business, it is an opening to the whole world. And technology is not just a job, it is an opening to the future. We are looking for people that are as open as traveling and technology combined amp; we are here to guide, challenge and give you an exciting part in our mission to make our world, wide open. Join us and start today as a Product Owner!
The role as a Product Owner
The vision of the Product Team is to work with speed, passion, dedication, and with a getting things done approach ensuring that we are doing the right things connected to the Group Strategy.
The mission of the Air Content team is to ensure that Etraveli Group offers the widest array of relevant air content in the world, facilitating the customer's booking process and generating value to our customers and partners. The team interacts with stakeholders across all business domains (e.g. Sales, Operations, Commercial), directly with our partners (e.g. Metasearchers, Booking.com) and with development teams across business domains (e.g. Frontend, Ancillaries, Post Booking and Payments).
Initially you will be working alongside a Senior Product Owner to ensure development targets are met around the given domain. By coaching and hands-on involvement with real projects you will gradually transition into a higher degree of autonomy with the goal to lead your own team.
Responsibilities
With an entrepreneurial mindset you will be responsible for:
- Maximizing the value of the product resulting from work of the Development Team.
- Forming the long term product/domain plan and requirement assessment process.
- Inspiring and motivating the team with vision, long term direction, ambition and making the dev team accountable for the delivery .
- Continuously prioritizing and following up activities in ongoing product development.
- Facilitating in order to create a stimulating and creative work environment and accountable teams by focusing on the needs rather than providing solutions.
- Coordinating, steering and interacting with multiple stakeholders and facilitating a joint understanding by tailoring the language to the audience.
- Providing post-release and day-to-day support by collecting, filtering, organizing, prioritizing and following up bug reports and questions.
- Identifying problems/opportunities within your domain and bringing them to life.
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience within the Airline Travel Industry.
- Ability to break down a complex concept/process into simpler parts and present it to someone with less insights.
- You are used to working with people and have excellent communication skills (verbal and written communication), being able to tailor your language to the audience you refer to.
- You thrive when taking on new responsibilities and feel comfortable making decisions.
- Ability to deliver a data driven approach with a customer-first mindset.
Meritorious:
- Some technical knowledge of how GDS and/or LCC booking processes work.
- Experience of working in documentation programs such as Atlassian or Figma.
- Previous experience around Flight search will be a big plus.
- Previous experience working within a Product Development team will be considered an asset.
- Previous experience working in an Agile world with Scrum and/or Kanban.
Benefits
We are looking for people who would make the world smaller for travelers but want a bigger world of opportunities for themselves. With us you can enjoy:
- Health Benefits - Through partners we offer a private healt