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Principal Product Owner, IT

Fort Worth, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Aug 2026

About the role

Intro

Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

Why you'll love this job

As one diverse, high-performing team dedicated to technical excellence, you will focus relentlessly on delivering unrivaled digital products that drive a more reliable and profitable airline.
As a Principal Technical Product Owner, you will lead the strategy, vision, and execution of complex, enterprise-scale technical products and platforms. You will serve as a critical bridge between engineering teams, architecture, and business stakeholders, ensuring that product development aligns with technical standards, customer needs, and strategic business goals. Your role will focus on delivering scalable, sustainable, and value-driven solutions that support enterprise-wide initiatives.
You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle—from defining technical requirements and prioritizing platform capabilities to collaborating cross-functionally to deliver impactful outcomes. As a senior leader, you will provide thought leadership across product and engineering teams, mentor other Product Owners, and help shape the future of our technical product ecosystem.

What you'll do

As noted above, this list is intended to reflect the current job but there may be additional essential functions (and certainly non-essential job functions) that are not referenced. Management will modify the job or require other tasks be performed whenever it is deemed appropriate to do so, observing, of course, any legal obligations including any collective bargaining obligations.

Define and communicate a compelling technical product vision. Develop and manage roadmaps for platforms and systems, ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, business objectives, and long-term sustainability
Operate as the primary liaison between engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements and ensure alignment across teams
Lead backlog refinement and prioritization for technical features, platform enhancements, and infrastructure capabilities. Balance technical debt, scalability, and business value
Gather insights from internal users and stakeholders to identify pain points and opportunities to translate feedback into actionable technical solutions
Partner with engineering, architecture, and design teams to ensure successful delivery of technical products and facilitate decision-making and remove roadblocks
Define and track technical KPIs and OKRs that measure platform performance, reliability, and business impact. Use data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement
Mentor Product Owners and team members, fostering growth in technical product management practices and agile methodologies
Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Drive innovation in platform capabilities and technical product offerings
Ensure technical products align with architectural standards, enterprise priorities, and long-term strategic goals. Make trade-offs that optimize for scalability and sustainability

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
5+ years of experience in product ownership or technical product management, with a strong track record of delivering complex technical solutions.
Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with engineering and architecture teams.
Deep understanding of platform development, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise systems.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
9+ years of experience in product ownership or technical product management, with a strong track record of delivering complex techn