Lead Product Manager - Airline Experience & AI
Lead Product Manager at Sabre (Bengaluru, hybrid) owning Travel Data products — Streaming & Batch, QIK, and Data Connect — in the Airline Experiences & AI team. Drives product vision, roadmap, P&L, and scrum backlog; requires airline technology experience, market-facing exposure, and some AI project experience.
- Compensation
- Not disclosed
- Location
- Bengaluru, India
- Work setup
- Onsite
- Seniority
- Lead
- Employment
- Not specified
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 3 years of experience working with Airline technology
- 2 years of experience in market-facing roles (engaging customers and prospects)
- Up to 1 year of AI-driven project experience
- Business and technology-oriented, with strong product and functional background
- Ability to present a compelling solution grounded in technology
- Ownership mindset with tactical and strategic thinking
- Ability to work independently and resolve project challenges creatively
- Comfortable in a collaborative, geographically distributed virtual environment
- Ability to navigate a multi-stakeholder environment with competing priorities
- Excellent self-organization; manage and prioritize several projects in parallel
- Strong business acumen and situational awareness
- Excellent written and verbal English; strong public speaker
- Proficient in Microsoft Office for presentations and written communication
- Storyteller and story mapper
- Able to define a product's feature set
- Bachelor's/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 (AI/ML, dynamic offers)
- Tech-savvy; able to engage with Engineering to drive technical solutions
- Experience with software development process
- Strong knowledge of MS Excel and PowerPoint
Full 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.
Team Description
Sabre is looking for a LEAD Product Manager in the Airline Experiences and AI team, that 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.
You will primarily look after the Travel Data products - Streaming and Batch, QIK, along with Data Connect, among other initiatives.
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:
- 3 years of experience working with Airline technology
- 2 years of experience in market-facing roles (e.g. engaging with customers and prospects)