[Hiring] Technical Product Owner @Ultimate Jet Vacations

Role Description

The Technical Product Owner leads the strategy and delivery of UJV's e-commerce platform: the B2B, B2C, client, advisor, partner, and white-label online booking portals, and the API integrations behind them. Together, these products shape how UJV does business with clients, advisors, partners, and vendors. You will sit at the intersection of users, business, and technology: understanding what each audience needs, deciding what is worth building, and working with engineering to bring it to life.

As product owner, you will define the vision and roadmap, prioritize with a clear view of impact and effort, and measure success through adoption and business results. You will work hands-on, using customer research, data, and AI-enabled tools to test ideas early and make confident decisions. This is a high-visibility role for someone who enjoys real ownership, thrives in a small and fast-moving team, and wants to build the technology behind a leading luxury travel brand.

You will also serve as UJV's product practice lead. Several leaders across reservations operations, the Admin platform, and supplier inventory (the Product Vault) own products without the PM title, and part of your role is to make them stronger at scoping, prioritizing, writing requirements, and measuring adoption. You lead by example and by coaching, not by authority.

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership and Roadmap:
  • Own the roadmap, backlog, and prioritization for UJV's e-commerce platform (B2B, B2C, client, advisor, partner, and white-label online booking portals, including API integrations).
  • Act as the single point of product ownership for engineering, operations, and leadership.
  • Lock requirements and acceptance criteria before each sprint, managing change through the roadmap.
  • Decide what will not be built this sprint or quarter.
• Discovery and Prototyping:
  • Run discovery directly with advisors and hotel partners.
  • Build working prototypes and applications with AI tools to validate workflows.
  • Translate user pain points into clear technical requirements.
• Adoption, Analytics, and Observability:
  • Drive advisor activation, search-to-booking conversion, and bookings.
  • Define and instrument product analytics from day one.
  • Set non-functional acceptance criteria with engineering.
• Cross-Team Partnership:
  • Direct the Portal engineering team and external build partners on product priorities.
  • Coordinate shared trip-building logic with the Admin product owner.
  • Partner with Hotel Partnerships, Marketing, and Data teams.
  • Work with the Tech Lead to design and embed AI assistants into the portals.
• Backlog and Prioritization:
  • Own the Jira backlog for the portals end to end.
  • Run one prioritization system across Jira and Asana.
  • Run weekly backlog grooming with engineering leads and external build partners.
  • Keep Jira and Asana data clean enough to feed the leadership scorecard.
  • Protect the quarter from scope creep.
• Raising the Bar Across the Teams:
  • Coach operations and platform leaders on product responsibility.
  • Build and roll out a lightweight UJV product playbook.
  • Teach AI product craft.
  • Run regular product reviews or office hours.
  • Measure your impact by the team's output.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, with at least 3 years owning a transactional e-commerce or two-sided marketplace product.
• Proven experience running both discovery (new products) and delivery (existing products and teams).
• Hands-on AI fluency: prototyping with tools such as Lovable, Cursor, or Claude.
• Strong analytical skills: product analytics, SQL, and event instrumentation.
• Working API literacy to write specs against booking and inventory APIs.
• Sound product judgment, an ownership mindset, and rigor at speed.
• Track record of making the people around you better at product work.
• Experience designing AI-assisted search or conversational experiences.
• Near-native English proficiency.

Strongly Preferred

• Experience in travel, hospitality, or travel tech.
• Experience with advertising or sponsored placements in a marketplace.