Product Owner

We work with aviation companies across the world including New York JFKIAT, Toronto Pearson, United Airlines, British Airways, London Heathrow and more.

Responsibilities

• Own backlog and roadmap for the real-time resource management system with the planning of stands and gate allocation as the primary use case.

• Collaborate with Customer Success and airport operations teams to understand allocation challenges, regulatory requirements, and efficiency goals.

• Translate operational needs and requirements into prioritised product backlogs, user stories, and comprehensive technical development tickets.

• Define success metrics and track performance improvements (e.g., reduced delays, improved gate utilisation).

• Lead the product development process of the product to ensure the highest quality of the product. Includes holding manual acceptance testing according to the acceptance criteria.

• Manage agile/scrum retrospectives and continuous collaboration with the customers on developing and improving the product.

• Collaborate with internal and external software development teams in order to realize the roadmap and ensure the highest quality of product delivered.

• Manage initial / first implementation with our launch customer (one of the biggest airlines in the world).

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management/ownership experience in B2B SAAS company. Ideally in products connected to aviation or logistics.

• Prior knowledge in airport operations, gate/stand planning, and/or resource allocation systems.

• Experience in building and successfully launching new products from the ground up.

• Experience in working with Launch customers on the product definition, development, and testing in operational requirements.

• Proven track record of managing products with optimisation or scheduling algorithms.

• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills.

• Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban).

• Ability to define and track operational KPIs.

• Excellent problem-solving and prioritisation skills.

Why Assaia

Assaia is a unique place where you can work on a technically advanced and innovative product for an exciting and important industry. You will be working in a diverse international team of smart people who can learn a lot from each other – all this without leaving your home – or sunbed, if you wish! Your input will be valuable and we actively ask everyone to share their thoughts and ideas to help steer the direction of the company’s development. Additionally, we offer:

• Participation in making important decisions, your ideas will be heard and implemented.

• Always remote work and a flexible schedule.

• Agile processes.

• Paid vacation, paid sick leaves.

• Paid relevant courses/online education.

• Great company culture based on honesty and mutual respect.

• Live team events.

We are a team of 110 now. We are looking forward to expanding it with you!