StudentUniverse Product Owner - Boston, MA

StudentUniverse Product Owner - Boston, MA

Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG) is one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers. The company, which is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia has company-owned leisure and corporate travel business in 23 countries, spanning Australia, New Zealand, the Americas, Europe, the United Kingdom, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates and Asia. FCTG also operates a global corporate travel management network, which extends to more than 90 countries through company-owned businesses and independent licensees. The company opened its first leisure travel shop in Sydney, Australia in 1982 and listed on the Australian Securities Exchange in 1995.  Our purpose is to “open up the world for those who want to see”. Every day, we give people all around the world the opportunity to experience something really amazing – travel!

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About The Opportunity

We are looking for a product owner to drive the initiation, execution and application of new technology products across the StudentUniverse business. This person will work with the whole business to identify and prioritize the most valuable projects, work with the off-shore development teams to ensure acceptance criteria are met, and ensure that the delivered product is optimized and meets business goals. Given the strong focus on exclusive flight deals for Students and Young Adults, a key part of the role will be to ensure we are always offering the best fare at the right price to our customers. This will rely on strong familiarity with fare structures and GDS (Sabre) tools, including both Agent tooling and API interfaces.

This role will support the development of the Student Universe product as well as becoming  the subject matter expert on GDS fare loading and auditing to ensure the fares negotiated are properly brought through the supply chain and displayed to the traveler.

Key Responsibilities

• Work with the business to identify and quantify benefits of product enhancements. 
• Participate in off-shore agile teams across small, medium and large complexity initiatives.
• Own, define, and prioritize the product backlog, establish user stories and acceptance criteria, obtain customer validation through data analytics and user feedback.
• Facilitate backlog refinement, including reviewing and updating backlog items, providing information to the business and technology teams to establish feasibility and time / cost estimates, breaking backlog items into acceptable chunks, and submit new items to the backlog.
• Communicate backlog status and prioritization to the business team.
• Drive continuous improvement to GDS content sourcing and display, using data analysis to identify areas of improvement
• Drive improvements to unit economics and performance
• Scope and prioritize in the backlog development related to GDS search and rate display
• Perform regular rate audits on GDS content to validate proper rates are being returned and displayed

Experience & Qualifications

• High learning agility
• Ability to build relationships across the team and stakeholders
• Ability to work directly with the tech team, project management, and business stakeholders
• Knowledge of GDS (prefer Sabre) air APIs and fare rules 
• Strong analytical skillset, comfortable working on large data sets and utilizing data visualization tools

Work Perks! - What’s in it for you:

FCTG is renowned internationally for having amazing perks and an even better culture.  We understand that our people are our most valuable asset. It is the passion and dedication of our teams that keep the company on top of the industry ladder. It’s also why we offer some great employee benefits and perks outside of the norm.

• Have fun: At the heart of everything we do at Flight Centre is a desire to have fun.
• Reward & Recognition: Celebrate the success of yourself and others at our regular Buzz Nights and at the annual Global Gathering - You'll have to experience it to believe it!
• Use your smarts: Our people use their quick thinking, expertise, and tenacity to always figure things out.
• Love for travel: We were founded by people who wanted to travel and want others to do the same. That passion is something you can’t miss in our people or service.
• Personal connections: We are a big business founded on personal relationships.
• Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
•      Diversity Day: