Travelport 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. Our next-generation marketplace connects buyers and sellers that share our passion for delivering exceptional travel experiences. Unconflicted and independent, we are reinventing a simpler future for travel’s complex ecosystem.

What does a great Technical Product Manager do?

The Technical Product Manager (TPM) role in the Emerging Business Pillar sits within the Technology organization and represents the customer on the Agile team. It is the Technical Product Manager’s responsibility to ensure the team is focused on the right work and priority and to help the team achieve their sprint commitments by providing clear and complete requirements. As the Technical Product Manager specializing in digital advertising, ad serving, ad network, and programmatic technologies, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our advertising solutions.

What is advertising at Travelport?

Advertising is a growth area at Travelport and we have great expectations for the upcoming years. We plan to expand our advertising footprint beyond our current point of sale solutions to reach to a larger market and enabling our advertising buyers to execute on their campaigns.

Responsibilities:

Responsible for developing user stories from collated requirements by collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to align the product design and development activities to deliver ROI

Accountable for synchronizing with the Product Manager/s and other TPM’s to ensure new work is brought into the backlog and prioritized appropriately

Responsible for ensuring everyone in the team understands the user story and is aligned in the sprint

Responsible for prioritization of the team backlog

Accountable for coordinating with the product delivery team(s) and design colleagues to ensure the required activities are delivered to sufficient/agreed quality, time and budget

Accountable for working with the development team/s and architecture to implement the user stories including all undocumented edge cases and non-functional requirements

Participating in daily stand ups, sprint planning meetings and sprint reviews

Responsible for User Acceptance Criteria & Sign Off

Accountable for system demos

The TPM will develop deep functional product knowledge and an understanding of the technical composition of systems that support it

What we look for/who would prosper in this role?

3 – 5 years of Technical Product Manager, Product Owner experience.

In depth knowledge of digital advertising with working understanding of ad serving, ad platforms, bidding algorithms, programmatic, etc.

Deep understanding of ad serving technologies, ad exchanges, demand-side platforms (DSPs), and supply-side platforms (SSPs).

Hands on experience in programmatic advertising concepts such as RTB, header bidding, ad verification, and ad fraud detection.

Experience working in Agile development environments and using project management tools such as JIRA and Aha!.

Working knowledge of Agile principles

Exposure to technical concepts, product owner techniques, tools & principles

Exposure to Behavior Driven Development

Experience providing online documentation and other resources to external users

Technical/Developer background is a plus

Excellent verbal, written, and attention to detail skills.

Ability and desire to work with people all over the world

Excellent collaboration skills and ability to influence cross-functional teams and facilitate conversations that lead to agreed direction.

Capacity to seek consensus and agreement across multiple stakeholders, bringing diverse opinions together

Ability to resolve conflict for the team and within the team; influencing internal stakeholders

Knowledge of travel tech industry is a plus

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 to challenge what’s been done before, and be bold to win!

These are just a few of our employee’s favorite benefits/perks…

We believe all employees contribute to the success of the company and should be able to share in that success, which is why all jobs are eligible to participate in our bonus program with any payouts being subject to individual and company performance.
We offer a comprehensive benefit program that includes medical, dental, vision, employer paid Disability and Basic Life Insurance, Voluntary life options, a competitive 401(k) match, as well as many other voluntary benefits to fit your specific needs.
We make health and wellness a priority and offer a generous paid time off policy as well as contributing to our communities with an annual volunteer day off.
We also offer a New Child leave policy, where the birthing parent receives 16 weeks of paid time off, and the non-birthing parent receives 8 weeks of paid time off.

Salary Target: $110,000-$130,000

The salary of the finalist(s) selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, internal equity, experience, education, specialty, and training

Interested? We’d love for you to get in touch!*

*Please note that if your application is progressed, you may be asked to complete a self-recorded video interview, at a time that works best for you. This is your chance to bring your skills & experience to life in your own words and style. Ensure you keep an eye on your junk folder just in case our invitation finds its way there.*

We are an equal opportunities employer and will consider all qualified applicants purely on their skills and abilities. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation, if needed.

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