Product Owner/Sr Product Owner, Technology Products - Data Governance

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

• This job is a member of the Data Governance team within the Information Technology division at American Airlines.
• American is transforming the way we deliver software and solutions for our customers. As part of this transformation, the UX organization is championing Design Systems methodology to create and maintain reusable components that will lead to more efficient and consistent product design. 

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.

• Contributes to the cocreation of Product Vision and Product Strategy tied to Portfolio goals for Data Governance Capabilities
• Utilizes technical knowledge such as product architecture, continuous deployment process, DevOps practices, data models and analytics, querying languages, tools supporting automation/metrics and other technologies in support of the Data Governance products/services owned.
• Communicates regularly on OKRs, product roadmap, planned development, upcoming releases, and areas requiring leadership’s attention.
• Coordinates with other Product team members to manage product dependencies and increments of value
• Performs continuous product discovery and offers valuable solutions that align to Product OKRs
• Understands the budgetary implications, related organizational constraints in factoring areas of focus
• Uses data to define baselines, measure outcomes, share insights, order backlog items, etc.
• Conducts competitive benchmarking, presents new technologies/solutions, identifies unmet/underserved need Defines and maintains a healthy backlog, operating consistently in adopting organizational standards and presents the backlog items with squads and external team members
• Seeks input from product, process and technology areas and balances time-sensitive improvements needed for maintaining both technical and product health 
• Collaborates with various internal team members (i.e. UX, Technology, Vendors, Risk, Compliance, Security
• Influences leaders, squads and peers on product strategy, roadmap items, OKRs and upcoming releases
• Practices agility in discovering  and delivering value continuously
• Work with the Data Governance Platform team(s) to automate Capability processes.
• Be an integral part of the Data Governance Program Management 

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Design, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field plus 3+ years of experience in Product Management/ Delivery, (ex: product analyst, user researcher, product owner, etc.) or 5 years of equivalent Product Management/Delivery experience
• Experience managing a Design System, with a strong understanding of design systems methodology including principles, component-based design, pattern libraries, and UX/UI best practices 

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Master’s degree in Design, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or related field plus 5 years of experience in Product Management/ Delivery, (ex: product analyst, user researcher, product owner, etc.)  
• Experience determining Product Market fit and defining a Go-to-Market strategy
• Demonstrate familiarity with Agile Product Management tools
• Experience with design system tools such as Storybook, Figma, GitHub, or similar as well as front end development technologies such as CSS, HTL and JavaScript
• Change management experience identifying downstream data impacts for regulatory requirements and reporting
• Experience automating data governance processes/workflows using market leading data governance products
• Detailed experience delivering data governance artifacts such as data dictionaries, metadata, lineage,