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Emirates Airlines invites applications for Technical Product Owner – Digital in Dubai, UAE

Job Title:

Technical Product Owner – Digital

Job Purpose:

At Emirates, we believe in connecting the world, to and through, our global hub in Dubai; and in constantly innovating to ensure our customers ‘Fly Better’. Join us in cosmopolitan Dubai as a Product Owner and make your mark on the aviation world by taking our products to the next level.

Technical Product Owner (Digital) is an expert focusing on building a seamless customer experience across digital channels, optimising every touchpoint for Emirates Group customers. Working closely with two feature teams, you drive the backlog and oversee the implementation of various initiatives spanning across the Emirates group websites.

In addition, you will build strong relationships with key business stakeholders, aligning technical solutions with strategic objectives, and ensuring that the Emirates group websites continue to exceed customer expectations while driving business value.

You will act as the bridge between the software engineering teams and your stakeholders. You will help to define the vision of the products we create; drive the planning, prioritisation and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals.

In this role, you will: 

Be a part of our Product community, focusing on collaboration cross-functionally with engineering, delivery, architecture, and business partners, and identifying opportunities of improvement and growth.
Be able to analyse business functionality changes and determine features and stories that clearly articulate the full range of amendments/enhancements that need to be done to both vendor and in-house systems.
Own the entire lifecycle of the Product and drive product development through your engineering and scrum teams
Write and refine user stories, prioritise backlogs, and support sprint ceremonies
Define detailed use cases, product requirements, and technical specs needed to support roadmap initiatives.
Set product objectives, define success metrics and deliver business outcomes, ensuring KPIs and targets are met
Continuously innovate and iterate as you deliver your roadmap in order to provide the best product and solutions possible
Deliver world class user journeys that our customers value
Document process flows to illustrate to-be states and changes to information flow.
Conduct discoveries/feasibilities that potentially lead to RFI/RFT with the ability to manage those to conclusion with detailed vendor evaluations.
At times be required to engage, drive and manage vendor priorities and activities pertaining to your prioritised backlog.

Qualifications & Experience:

This job might be for you if you have:

Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years’ experience in product ownership/management in a team-facing capacity
Experience in the following:
- Modern responsive websites
- A clear understanding of effective UI/UX design for websites and development cycle
- Ability to convert the business requirements into features and stories, and refine them with the development teams
- Ability to manage the product backlog across multiple features and teams
- Ability to apply prioritization techniques to meet the needs from different stakeholders
- MVP mindset for product development and an outcome-based delivery
SAFe PO/PM certified is a preference
Appetite for building and identifying value, with a customer centric mind-set.
Well-versed with the tools for the Product Management aspects of software delivery
Possess strong communication skills and be able to enthusiastically convey your Product Vision to stakeholders and effectively influence a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.
Agile and innovative mind-set with the tenacity to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment.

At Emirates Group, we’re committed to providing our employees with opportunities to grow and develop in their careers. So if you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity, apply today and join our team!

Salary & Benefits:

Join us in Dubai and enjoy an attractive tax-free salary and travel benefits that are exclusive to our industry, including discounts on flights and hotels stays around the world. You can find out more information about our employee benefits in the Working Here section of our website www.emirates.com/careers. Further information on what’s it like to live and work in our cosmopolitan home city, can be found in the Dubai Lifestyle section.