Senior Product Owner – Digital Catering Solutions
Job Description
Delta Air Lines is seeking a Senior Product Owner to lead product strategy and delivery for transforming onboard catering through a foundational back-end system and integrated employee and customer experiences.
Responsibilities
- Own product strategy and roadmap for assigned capabilities, aligning delivery to catering transformation objectives and customer experience goals
- Define and track business outcomes, KPIs, and success metrics to ensure measurable value is delivered
- Use customer feedback, operational insights, and performance metrics to prioritize investments, refine requirements, and guide product strategy
- Influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders to align priorities, drive decisions, and achieve targeted business outcomes
- Develop a working understanding of system integrations, data flows, APIs, and operational processes to prioritize and guide solution development
- Partner with stakeholders to define requirements and features using process mapping and business analysis, translating business needs into functional requirements
- Elicit, document, and refine use cases that support feature development and implementation
- Lead backlog refinement and actively participate in Scrum ceremonies; prioritize based on business value, implementation effort, confidence, and strategic alignment
- Partner with Delta IT (architects and engineers) and third-party vendors to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Define success criteria and metrics for new products and releases, and perform post-implementation analysis
- Support change management through user adoption, training, and rollout of new capabilities in partnership with business stakeholders
- Coordinate with teams to ensure functionality integrates across Flight Attendant and customer-facing channels while delivering expected value
- Identify and manage product risks, dependencies, and trade-off decisions to help ensure delivery of business outcomes
- Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders to share priorities, product roadmap, and key learnings
Requirements
- Build strong working relationships with coworkers, customers (internal and external), partners, and company leadership
- Bachelor’s degree plus 7-10 years of relevant business, operations, technology, or product experience
- At least 5 years in a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or Agile delivery role
- Experience working in Agile delivery environments and partnering with technology teams
- Self-motivated, intellectually curious, and results oriented with the ability to meet or exceed deadlines
- Strong attention to detail; able to work autonomously and manage multiple requests with varying timelines
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to leverage data for decision-making
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced environment
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Experience using product management and collaboration tools such as VersionOne, Mural, Aha!, or similar platforms
- Consistent prioritization of safety and security of self, others, and personal data
- Embraces diverse people, thinking, and styles
- High school diploma, GED, or high school equivalency
- At least 18 years of age and authorization to work in the United States
Technologies
- VersionOne
- Mural
- Aha!
- Agility One (VersionOne)
Benefits
- Competitive salary, industry-leading profit sharing program, and performance incentives
- 401(k) with generous company contributions up to 9%
- Up to 2 weeks of vacation for new hires (earned for use in the following vacation year, April 1 to March 31)
- Up to 56 hours of paid personal time within a 12-month period
- 10 paid holidays per calendar year
- Birthing parents: 12 weeks of paid maternity/parental leave; non-birthing parents: 2 weeks of paid parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, vision, short/long term disability, and life insurance
- Family care assistance including fertility support, surrogacy and adoption assistance, lactation support, subsidized back-up care, and programs supporting loved ones in all stages
- Holistic Wellbeing programs including employee assistance program support and free financial coaching, plus resources for mental health
- Domestic and International space-available flight privileges for employees and eligible family members
- Career development programs
- World-wide partnerships supporting community service and sustainability goals, including reducing carbon footprint
- Business Resource Groups to promote inclusion and perspective
- Recognition rewards and awards through Unstoppable Together
- Access to Deltaperks discounts and voluntary benefits such as car and hotel rentals, auto/home/pet insurance, legal services, and childcare
Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree with preferred major in Technology, Business, Management Information Systems
- 5-8 years of Product Owner experience in Agile environments, including experience coaching, mentoring, or leading teams in Agile methodologies
- Experience writing features and user stories in an Agile environment
- Working knowledge of tools like Agility One (VersionOne) and Aha
- Experience in at least one commercial or operations function such as In Flight, Reservations, Airport Customer Service, Digital, or Sales
- Experience leading large-scale digital transformation initiatives involving multiple business and technology stakeholders