Manager, Product Management, Digital Connect

Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader backed by one of the worlds largest travel data clouds. Built on an open modular cloud-native architecture Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold new disruptors guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent connected and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale Sabre transforms insights into innovation empowering airlines hoteliers agencies and other partners to retail distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

Manager Product Management Digital Connect

Team Description

Sabre is looking for a Manager of Product Management for the Digital Connect team. Digital Connect is a key API platform enabling airlines and partners to power digital shopping booking servicing and operational capabilities across web mobile kiosk agent and other digital channels.

In this role you will lead a team of Product Managers and Subject Matter Experts responsible for product direction customer and market input backlog quality execution support and product expertise. You will work closely with Engineering Architecture Sales Delivery Commercial Customer Care and airline customers to ensure Digital Connect continues to meet customer needs supports Sabres technology strategy and enables innovation in airline retailing.

The ideal candidate combines product leadership technical curiosity customer focus and strong execution. You should be comfortable working with APIs complex platforms agile teams and emerging technologies such as AI. You do not need to be a developer but you should be technical enough to engage deeply with Engineering understand trade-offs challenge assumptions and help shape practical solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Lead coach and develop a team of Product Managers and Subject Matter Experts.

• Drive product vision roadmap priorities and investment recommendations for Digital Connect.

• Translate customer needs market trends usage data technical input and business goals into clear product priorities.

• Ensure alignment between product direction technology strategy commercial goals and customer commitments.

• Partner with Engineering and Architecture to define scalable maintainable and technically sound solutions.

• Guide backlog creation refinement prioritization user stories acceptance criteria and product decision-making.

• Support scrum teams with product expertise clarification demos issue triage and acceptance of delivered work.

• Engage with customers prospects and internal stakeholders through workshops roadmap discussions demos and product reviews.

• Support Sales Sales Engineering Delivery Commercial and Customer Care teams with product positioning solutioning and issue resolution.

• Monitor market developments competitive trends airline retailing evolution API platform trends and emerging technologies.

• Promote curiosity ownership continuous improvement and practical use of AI to improve productivity analysis communication and product outcomes.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Strong experience in Product Management Product Ownership Business Analysis Solution Management Technology Consulting Software Delivery or a related function.

• Experience leading coaching or managing people.

• Experience with airline technology travel technology e-commerce APIs digital platforms or complex enterprise software.

• Experience in customer-facing or market-facing roles including working with customers prospects partners or commercial teams.

• Strong business and technology orientation with the ability to connect customer needs product strategy commercial value and technical execution.

• Strong curiosity and ability to quickly learn unfamiliar domains systems workflows and technology concepts.

• Technical aptitude and confidence working with Engineering and Architecture teams. A technical background API experience systems integration experience or software development experience is a strong plus.

• Understanding of agile delivery backlog management user stories acceptance criteria and product discovery.

• Ability to work independently manage competing priorities and create clarity in complex multi-stakeholder environments.

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills including strong presentation storytelling and demo skills.

• Practical interest in AI and willingness to use AI tools to improve productivity analysis communication and product outcomes.

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Business Administration Engineering Information Systems Aviation or a related field or equivalent practical experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with airline distribution reservations servicing merchandising digital retailing NDC Offer and Order or airline e-commerce.

• Experience with API products developer platforms middleware orchestration layers backend-for-frontend patterns or enterprise integrations.

• Understanding of REST APIs XML JSON GraphQL SQL cloud platforms or modern web application architectures.

• Prior experience as a developer solution architect technical product owner systems analyst or implementation consultant.

• Knowledge of emerging trends in travel retailing digital commerce personalization dynamic offers AI machine learning automation and agentic user experiences.

Personal Attributes

• Curious proactive and technically interested.

• Driven by outcomes ownership and continuous improvement.

• Structured pragmatic and able to create clarity in ambiguity.

• Comfortable challenging assumptions constructively.

• Strong collaborator who builds trust across teams.

• Customer-focused commercially aware and passionate about modern technology and airline retailing.

Work arrangements

• Hybrid working mode; 3 chosen days from the office in a week

• Flexible working hours: Maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs

Paid time off

• Year-End-Break:enjoy additionalfully paid days offduring the last week of the year

• Paid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies.

• Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice

Your money

• My Benefit platform/Multisport card:enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card

• Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs reducing your income tax

• Employee Capital Plans:profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury

• Baby Bonus:benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption

• Say Thanks program:collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services

Health and wellness

• Luxmed medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services

• Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package

• Employee Assistance Program: find help in free confidential program with a certified counselor

• Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health

• Life insurance: sign up for free high coverage life insurance program

Career development

• Professional development:access to e-learning platforms as well as join Sabre live learning sessions

• Certification and tuition reimbursement

• Our Communities:join one of our team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group Innovation Lab Community Women in Technology SOLVE!T and many more)

And more

• Car and bike parking

• Fun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work foosball ping pong pool table swings massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents rooms as well

• No dress code

• Innovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment Robot construction kit 3D printers and many more

• Attractive Referral Bonus:earn $2500 USD for every hired referral

We will give careful consideration to your application and review your details against the position criteria. You will receive separate notification as we progress your application.

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum requirements will proceed in the selection process.

Sabre is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion national origin sex gender identity sexual orientation disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.