Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s 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.

Team Description

Sabre is looking for a Principal Product Manager in the Reservations domain, a part of Sabres Order Management Suite in the Fulfillment Portfolio. You will be responsible for the product vision, investment, planning, and execution throughout its life cycle, including increasing the profitability of existing products and developing new ones, and ensuring the delivery of the best solutions and meeting revenue and customer satisfaction goals.

You will be experienced in the Reservations domain (for both Airline and GDS), understand its structure, architecture and capabilities. You will have in-depth knowledge of the booking and post booking workflows.

You will capture market needs, customer input, usage, data and translate those into user stories that meet customer and market requirements and support the company’s strategy and technical innovation goals. The role possesses a unique blend of business and technical skills, a big-picture vision, and the drive to make that vision a reality.

Role & Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and drive the product vision, roadmap, and strategy for Reservations, ensuring alignment with company goals and tech strategy.
• Manage product area’s investment decisions, scope, roadmap and priorities. Be the Product subject-matter expert (SME)
• Understand/monitor product’s competitive and market landscape
• Manage investments, balancing incremental improvements with large-scale strategic goals.
• Ensure alignment to technology strategy throughout product life cycle

Lifecycle & Delivery Management

• Oversee the full lifecycle from ideation to end-of-life, including upgrades and maintenance.
• Lead development as the primary point of contact for scope elaboration, ensuring on-time, high-quality, and on-budget releases.
• Produce technical documentation for engineering, delivery and care teams.

Team & Stakeholder Collaboration

• Serve as SME : own feature scope, prioritize backlogs (product enhancements), and define acceptance criteria.
• Engage stakeholders (customers, partners, senior management) to gather requirements and communicate progress.
• Empower Sales/Delivery through technical support, demos, and internal training sessions.

Market Focus & Performance

• Champion the customer by staying ahead of industry trends and driving customer-centric product decisions.
• Develop go-to-market strategies to boost product adoption.
• Track success via KPIs and data analysis to drive improvements, revenue, and cost-management while ensuring regulatory compliance.

Required Qualifications

Experience & Education

• 3-5 years in market-facing roles (customer/prospect engagement).
• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Business, or a related field.
• 5-7 years in Airline Reservations technology, specifically in the booking domain.
• Industry Expertise: Experience with Airlines or Travel Agencies; knowledge of travel trends.

Product & Technical Skills

• Tech-Savvy: Strong product background with the ability to bridge technology and business needs; capable of engaging Engineering on technical solutions.
• Product Definition: Skilled in feature set definition, storytelling, and story mapping.
• Experience : Experience with Full-Service Carriers, Low-Cost Carriers or Travel Agencies
• Experience : Experience with PNR, PNR Security, Group Bookings, Queues

Professional Capabilities

• Ownership & Strategy: Strategic/tactical mindset focused on measurable results and project resolution.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal English communication skills
• Strong public speaker: Comfortable presenting or demonstrating technology in front of large groups and at all levels of an organization.
• Collaboration: Thrives in virtual, global teams and navigates multi-stakeholder environments with competing priorities.
• Organization: Self-organized, proficient in MS Office, and able to manage multiple projects in parallel.
• Independent: Ability to work independently and resolve professional, technical or operational project challenges in a creative, methodical manner.
• Organized: Excellent self-organizational skills, with the ability to manage and prioritize several projects in parallel.

Nice to have skills- PNR & Reservation knowledge

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

Please note that only candidates who meet the minimum criteria for the role will proceed in the selection process.