Product Owner

ABOUT THE COMPANY:

OAG is a leading data platform for the global travel industry offering an industry - first single source for supply, demand, and pricing data.

We empower the global travel industry with high-quality, relevant datasets covering the whole journey from planning to customer experience.

Headquartered in the UK, with operations in the USA, Denmark, France, Germany, Singapore, Japan, China, and Lithuania.

We are looking for an experienced Product Owner in Luton to join the growing engineering team with primary ownership of Analytical platform.

ABOUT THE PRODUCT:

OAG is in process of creating a new generation analytics web platform for its flagship analytics product. Flight information data will be made available to data analysts using cutting edge cloud technologies. The new platform focuses on creating a leading analytical tool allowing customers to calculate important metrics such as flight frequency, seat capacity, traffic demand and connecting flights. The system will be hosted in the Azure platform using RESTful APIs, Snowflake, CosmosDB, App Services and NextJS/React web technologies.

YOU WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR:

• Gathering requirements and streamlining delivery for an engineering team to meet Product OKRs. Collaborating with Product Management and Engineering to align goals and objectives.
• Managing cross-team dependencies and supporting quarterly planning sessions.
• Working closely with Customer Experience (CX) and Customers to prioritise support activities.
• Managing the product backlog based on the objectives, collaborating with the team on creation of epics and user stories. Assessing and ranking backlog items based on their potential value to the product.
• Providing Transparency into Sprint Value. Showcasing and ensuring the measurable value of the product to customers.
• Defining and accepting stories based on the Definition of Ready (DoR) and Definition of Done (DoD).
• Supporting continuous improvements of teams delivery by contributing to teams practices, retrospectives, company transformations.
• Monitoring Delivery and Value Metrics: tracking and reporting on delivery metrics and value metrics to ensure ongoing product success.

IF YOU HAVE:

• A passion for Data and travel industry, data visualisation and analytics
• Strong analytical skills and ability to grasp complex relationships between data offerings
• Technical literacy and experience and an ability to communicate these concepts to non-technical stakeholders
• Experience working in Agile methodologies - Scrum and Less
• Strong facilitation skills to lead planning workshops, refinement sessions, retrospectives, backlog refinement, story point estimation, blameless postmortems, etc
• Strong communication skills to enable effective collaboration across the business
• Result-oriented mindset to drive customer value delivery.
• Experience working with OKRs is a plus.

WE WILL OFFER YOU:

• Personal growth and development opportunities
• Volunteering Days
• Hybrid working arrangements with flexibility
• Company bonus scheme to reward your contribution
• Pension
• Opportunity to join our Company Health Scheme
• Annual leave starting at 25 days per year
• Additional day off during your birthday month

“OAG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We ensure all applicants are considered for employment without discrimination.”