Associate Technical Product Owner - Web & Mobile

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’.

Emirates Group IT thrives on the dynamic nature of technology. Being pioneers in aviation innovation, we're always at the forefront, pushing boundaries. We're on the lookout for exceptional IT professionals to fortify our position as leaders in the industry.

Embark on a journey with the world’s largest international airline and become a vital part of our cutting-edge information and technology team as an Associate Technical Product Owner

Join our Technical Product Management team, where we build effective technology products and services that our customers love. We offer a mix of B2B and B2C products and services in domains such as Digital, Airline and Airport Operations, Group Services, and Commercial. Our goal is to continuously evolve our products, enriching them with features that focus on delivering value to our customers and users. If you are passionate about creating impactful technology products and ensuring their success, we invite you to apply and to contribute to the innovation and excellence at Emirates Group.

Associate Technical Product Owners (ATPO) are the are the first step on the ladder of roles in the Technical Product Management Succession Path, where the focus is upon learning and development gathered via experiencing the role first hand at a team level. This may be from direct Team Facing' Product Owner (PO) responsibilities, or by supporting Technical Product Owners (TPOs) / Technical Product Managers (TPMs) in a more complex team environment, also via the team facing' aspect.

The ATPO acts as a voice of the customer/stakeholder, ensuring value is at the core of everything they do, and ensuring sufficient measurement can be achieved post delivery.Working closely with the Technical Product Managers and Technical Product Owners, the ATPO consume details of the prioritised Features, and translates them into the decomposed story definition for their teams.

Job Outline

• Working with your team(s) to identify and capture team driven innovation ideas, consolidating across peer group for playback up to TPM community.
• Responsible for the story content, acceptance criteria definition, and end story `sign off' across team backlogs, ensuring prepared on time for future PIs, refined frequently with the entire team, and prioritised accordingly in alignment with other team backlogs.
• Ensures Technical Debt and NFRs are captured, refined, and prioritised across all sprints.
• Captures additional BAU, Ceremony, and Spike activities, and incorporates into team backlogs, within the boundaries of available capacity.
• Prepare contribution to PI Demo, in conjuction with other applicable stakeholders.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of features within their technical and team boundaries, ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies back to the Product Portfolio backlog.
• Attends Management meetings, in particular PI Planning.
• Defines metrics to measure the success and performance of prioritised work, ensuring any further BAU iterations can be proposed and prioritised accordingly within the boundaries of available capacity.
• Participates and contributes in growing a community of Product Owners, and continuously identify opportunities for improvement and growth.
• Contribute to the Portfolio Product Management Playbook and its continual evolution to help drive efficient practices and empowered teams.

Qualification

Qualifications & Experience

• Degree in Operations Research, Marketing science, Information Systems, e-Commerce or a combination of industry certification and 12+ years of relevant experience
• 2+ yrs practical experience working in a role inside or outside of a Technology function, where the experience gained is suitable enough to qualify the individual to commence their career in Product Management, via the role of Associate Technical Product Owner.
• Whilst not essential, some experience of working within a Scaled Agile framework is desirable.

Knowledge/skills

• Versed with the tools for the Technical Product Management aspects of software delivery
• Strong and concise communicator
• Builds strong relationships with peers and team members
• Appetite for building and identifying value, with a customer centric mindset

Leadership Role - No 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 hotel stays around the world. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast-paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers