United Air Lines, Inc

Product Manager - Information Technology

United Air Lines, Inc$90K — $130K *
Information Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred
  • 3+ years of experience in software product management or ownership
  • Knowledge of product management best practices and application delivery
  • Familiarity with agile methodologies and product line strategies
  • Strong multitasking ability with proven project management skills
  • Excellent analytical and decision-making skills
  • Attention to detail and strong organizational skills
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Proficiency in tools like Jira and Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

  • Define and communicate the product strategy and technical vision
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize features
  • Manage the IT product backlog to reflect technical vision and stakeholder needs
  • Interact with business and project teams to ensure alignment of objectives
  • Review QA test plans and support during test execution
  • Outline KPIs and success metrics, monitoring deliverables progress
  • Identify investment opportunities and prioritize feature development

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cross-functional teams in an innovative environment
  • Build and execute a technical roadmap aligned with company goals
  • Engagement in product performance monitoring and quality collaboration
  • Enhancement of skills in agile methodologies and product management best practices
  • Potential career advancement opportunities within a dynamic team
Full Job Description
Description

Job overview and responsibilities

The role of the Product Manager is to define and communicate the technical product vision and strategy, aligning it with business goals. It requires collaboration with stakeholders to gather requirements and prioritize features, manage the product backlog, and develop the product roadmap. The role also involves collaborating with cross-functional teams, monitoring product performance, and overseeing the release process to ensure timely delivery and adherence to quality standards.

  • Product Development and Lifecycle Management: Help define and communicate the roadmap for services within your domain; ensure the roadmap supports company objectives, helps prioritize features and aligns with company priorities. Maintain capacity management plans for the team, ensuring roadmaps align with team capacity
  • Product Strategy: Assist in developing a strategic technical roadmap. Analyze and define efficient, cost-effective solutions to support company objectives, dept objectives, business processes and functional requirements
  • Product Backlog - Maintain and prioritize the IT product backlog, ensuring it reflects the technical vision and stakeholder priorities.
  • Collaboration and stakeholder leadership: Interact with business partners, enterprise project teams, and channel teams to understand their needs, priorities, and root of the problem to ensure alignment between the customer, business, and technology solution
  • Product Launch: Review and validate QA test plans; support the QA team during test execution
  • Data Analysis and guidance: Helps outline KPIs and success metrics. Partners to monitor progress of deliverables, keep dependent teams and projects informed on progress; take corrective action if deliverables cannot be met or if higher priorities disrupt prior commitments. Helps identify investment opportunities, evaluate tradeoffs, and prioritize investments for the feature


Qualifications

What's needed to succeed (Minimum Qualifications):

  • Bachelor's degree required, with preference for Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
  • 3+ years of software product management or ownership
  • Solid knowledge of product management best practices, functional design, and application delivery methodology
  • Knowledge of agile methodologies, tools, and techniques for specific products; ability to develop product line processes and strategies
  • Strong multi-tasker, proven experience handling multiple roles and projects simultaneously
  • Excellent analysis, problem solving and decision-making skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Strong planning & organizational skills
  • Strong communication skills - verbal, written and presentation
  • Proficiency with tools similar to Jira, ADO, Microsoft Office, and/or Visio
  • Must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer without sponsorship
  • Successful completion of interview required to meet job qualification
  • Reliable, punctual attendance is an essential function of the position


What will help you propel from the pack (Preferred Qualifications):

  • Master's degree
  • Experience with agile
  • Experience using JIRA
  • Knowledge of project management methodology and some project management or PMP certification
  • Agile or Scrum certified
  • Aviation industry knowledge
  • AI technology knowledge
  • AWS Cloud & Dev Ops Knowledge

About United Air Lines, Inc

United Airlines is a major American airline that operates a large domestic and international route network. The company is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois and is a founding member of the Star Alliance, the world's largest airline alliance. United Airlines operates a fleet of over 800 aircraft and serves more than 350 destinations in over 50 countries.
Learn more about United Air Lines, Inc
Size
87,400 employees
Market Cap
$12.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$7 billion
Founded
1926
5 Year Trend
-7.6%
Revenue
$15.3 billion
NASDAQ

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