Product Owner/Sr Product Owner, IT Products
American Airlines, Fort Worth, Texas, United States, 76102
Product Owner/Sr Product Owner, IT Products Posting Start Date: 2/10/26
Location : DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08) Cities : Fort Worth - TX Requisition ID : 83604
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 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.
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, IT applications, 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 application 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 product KPIs and OKRs that measure platform application performance, reliability, and business impact. Use data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Drive innovation in platform capabilities and technical product offerings.
Promote an AI‑first mindset throughout every stage of the SDLC, ensuring teams proactively integrate intelligent capabilities into design, development, and delivery.
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).
3+ years of experience in product ownership or an Agile environment or technical product management.
Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with engineering and architecture teams.
Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
4+ years of experience in product ownership or technical product management.
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
Supports delivery of internal platforms and shared services as products with clear value propositions and reusable capabilities; collaborates on integration strategies to enable customer value and reduce duplication.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
Strategic thinker with the ability to balance short‑term delivery with long‑term technical vision and ability balance business needs.
Experience defining and tracking product OKRs and KPIs.
Analytical mindset with a focus on data‑driven decision‑making.
What you'll get
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
Feel free to be yourself at American From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status. We support and obey laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. American Airlines, Inc fully considers all qualified applicants including those with a criminal history.
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Location : DFW Headquarters Building 8 (DFW-SV08) Cities : Fort Worth - TX Requisition ID : 83604
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 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.
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, IT applications, 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 application 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 product KPIs and OKRs that measure platform application performance, reliability, and business impact. Use data to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.
Stay ahead of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices. Drive innovation in platform capabilities and technical product offerings.
Promote an AI‑first mindset throughout every stage of the SDLC, ensuring teams proactively integrate intelligent capabilities into design, development, and delivery.
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).
3+ years of experience in product ownership or an Agile environment or technical product management.
Proven experience working in Agile environments and collaborating with engineering and architecture teams.
Preferred Qualifications - Education & Prior Job Experience
Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience).
4+ years of experience in product ownership or technical product management.
Skills, Licenses & Certifications
Supports delivery of internal platforms and shared services as products with clear value propositions and reusable capabilities; collaborates on integration strategies to enable customer value and reduce duplication.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
Strong leadership and mentoring capabilities.
Strategic thinker with the ability to balance short‑term delivery with long‑term technical vision and ability balance business needs.
Experience defining and tracking product OKRs and KPIs.
Analytical mindset with a focus on data‑driven decision‑making.
What you'll get
Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more.
Feel free to be yourself at American From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.
Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.
Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status. We support and obey laws that prohibit discrimination everywhere we do business. American Airlines, Inc fully considers all qualified applicants including those with a criminal history.
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