Technical Product Owner - Robotics (UAE National)

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Join the Emirates Group IT Innovation Team in Dubai

At Emirates, we know that tech never stands still. Which is why we’re at the forefront of innovation in the aviation world. We are looking for the best IT professionals to help ensure we stay cutting-edge. So bring your talent to the world’s largest international airline and join our IT team as a Technical Product Owner (UAE National) in our Innovation – Robotics & Tech Futures team. This position is for a UAE National holding a Khulasat Al Qaid (Family Book) and with experience in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence.

What We Offer

This is your chance to work on challenging projects across different brands and businesses within the Emirates Group’s global portfolio.

Based in dynamic Dubai, you can enjoy all the benefits of a cosmopolitan lifestyle and a great work-life balance. That’s on top of a tax-free salary and amazing travel perks.

About The Role

As a Product Owner, you are the bridge between the engineering teams and your stakeholders. You will help to define the vision of the products we create; drive the planning, prioritisation and execution of backlogs and deliver new features that support our strategic goals.

Within our Innovation – Robotics & Tech Futures team you will be responsible for maximizing product value and the work of the development teams. You will work along with Technical Product Manager and Developers in our RPA Centre of Excellence, using bots to evangelize RPA solutions and create a community of RPA end-users. The TPO will help continually improve these methods and processes. The TPO will work with various groups within Emirates and dnata and drive new features and improve existing applications. The TPO will have working knowledge and experience in an agile team environment, will develop stories, and will establish backlog priorities, whilst introducing new solutions.

What You’ll Be Expected To Do:  

• Support the Technical Product Manager and Stakeholders driving the roadmap, based on insights, and champion this across your engineering teams


• Drive product development through your engineering and scrum teams


• Write user stories, prioritise backlogs, manage release activities and support sprint ceremonies


• Define detailed use cases, product requirements, and technical specs needed to support roadmap initiatives.


• Set product objectives, define success metrics and deliver business outcomes, ensuring KPIs and targets are met


• Continuously innovate and iterate as you deliver your roadmap in order to provide the best product and solutions possible


• Ensure effective collaboration across a diverse range of teams and stakeholders to balance the needs and priorities of the business and our customers.


• Work cross-functionally with engineering, delivery, architecture, and business partners


• Deliver world class user journeys that our customers value


• Be a part of our Product community, focusing on collaboration and identifying opportunities of improvement and growth

 Qualifications You’ll Need To Have:  

• Degree or Honours (12+3 or equivalent)


• This position is for a UAE National holding a Khulasat Al Qaid (Family Book)

Experience You’ll Need To Have:  

• 5+ years’ experience in product ownership/management in a ‘team facing’ capacity, though less experience may be considered

Skills You’ll Need To Have:

• Whilst not essential, some experience of working within an agile environment, across multiple initiatives and teams


• Appetite for building and identifying value, with a customer centric mind-set.


• Well-versed with the tools for the Product Management aspects of software delivery


• Possess strong communication skills and be able to enthusiastically convey your Product Vision to stakeholders and effectively influence a wide range of stakeholders across the organisation.


• A positive attitude and an ability to drive discernible change and delivery, at pace, in a pressurised environment


• Build strong relationships with peers and team members


• Agile and innovative mind-set with the tenacity to adapt and thrive in a constantly changing environment.

How You'll Work:

• In cross-functional squads - (Product Owner + Scrum Master + Developers + QA’s),


• We work within the Atlassian suite, maintaining our backlogs in JIRA and leveraging Confluence for knowledge management


• Customer centric mind-set, the customer is the focal point of delivering products, services, and experiences. 


• Leveraging your domain knowledge and experience to solve complex business problems and support them in achieving their goals


•  This is a permanent role based full time in our Dubai office 

Emirates. Fly Better.