Senior Product Owner People Manager | Barcelona, Spain / United Kingdom | LangleyTravelport 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. Providing the ability for suppliers such as airlines, hotels, and car rental companies to connect through personalized content to agencies and travelers. The world is changing, and our industry must change with it.We are leading the change; we are the change. We are on a mission to power the future of travel; come join us.What does a great Senior Product Owner do?A great Senior Product Owner in Travelport manages a team of Product Owners who themselves work on agile teams. The Senior Product Owner will ensure their team of Product Owners are focused on the right work and priorities, effectively communicating the vision and goals of their respective products to their teams. They are responsible for coaching, mentoring, and developing the team to deliver their objectives and manage their performance, guiding them to achieve their personal growth aspirations.What will this Senior Product Owner People Manager role involve?As a Senior Product Owner People Manager, in addition to responsibilities with their own Agile team, they will be responsible for a team of product owners on the Smartpoint Cloud ART. The Product Owner and Senior Product Owner roles sit within the Product organization and represent the customer on the Agile team. It is the Product Owner's responsibility to ensure the team is focused on the right work and priority and to help the team achieve the iteration commitments, helping them to continue to deliver Smartpoint Cloud, an amazing product.Responsibilities include:Accountable for providing guidance on writing and grooming user stories, user acceptance criteria, and prioritizing the team backlog.Responsible for coaching, mentoring, and developing the team to deliver their objectives and manage their performance, guiding them to achieve their personal growth aspirations.Providing regular feedback on performance and behaviors as part of the performance enablement practice and fostering a high-performing team.Supporting and reviewing your teams' responsibilities and tasks aligning with the vision and goals of the product strategy.Supporting the team in ways of working such as retrospectives to identify wins and lessons learned.Oversight of the team's Product Owner duties including acceptance criteria, analysis, and release cycles in-line with the road map, key risks, and constraints to the release planning.Inspiring the team to work together and share best practices to achieve the Product Owner goals.Developing own deep functional product knowledge and understanding of the technical composition of the systems that support the product set.May carry out the role of Product Owner to a dedicated team.Accountable for working with the development team/s and architecture to implement the user stories.Participating in daily scrum, iteration planning meetings, and iteration reviews to ensure product team schedules/tasks reflect the prioritized backlogs.Who we are looking for in this role:Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to influence cross-functional teams and facilitate conversations that lead to agreed outcomes.Capacity to seek consensus and agreement across multiple stakeholders.Strong verbal, written, and attention to detail skills, along with strong organizational, interpersonal, and time management skills.Ability to roll up their sleeves and independently explore and learn something new to share with the team.Ability and desire to work within a global organization with a varying work schedule to accommodate different time zones.Expert knowledge of Product Owner principles, techniques, and practices in an ambiguous or changing environment.Exposure to technical concepts, product owner techniques, tools & principles, Agile and SAFe beneficial, and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).Our ambition is to hire for potential not just experience, and you're likely to succeed if you:Are always ready to give it your all and deliver high-quality work.Are courageous and ambitious to challenge what's been done before.Are excited to use your creativity and innovative thinking to try new things.Take responsibility for your own workload.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.
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