product owner in travel

EPAM creates enterprise software products, open source solutions, and accelerators for a global market.

• Shape product direction for Travel-domain solutions by connecting client business goals, customer needs, operational realities, and technical feasibility into clear product scope;
• Own and manage the product backlog, priorities, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready requirements across discovery, refinement, implementation, and validation stages;
• Apply business analysis practices to clarify processes, stakeholder needs, business rules, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and expected outcomes;
• Drive prioritization and trade-off decisions based on business value, customer impact, feasibility, data dependencies, delivery risks, and timeline constraints;
• Align client stakeholders, engineering teams, data/BI teams, vendors, and delivery management around scope, priorities, decisions, and implementation approach;
• Support data-driven product areas by ensuring data needs, reporting expectations, validation logic, and business interpretation of outputs are properly captured;
• Use AI tools where relevant to improve product analysis, requirements structuring, backlog refinement, documentation, research, and decision preparation.

• 7+ Years of experience in Product Owner, Technical Product Owner, Lead Business Analyst, System Analyst, or similar roles;
• Experience or strong domain understanding in Travel;
• Strong product ownership and business analysis background, including backlog management, prioritization, scope control, acceptance criteria, requirements elicitation, and documentation;
• Ability to work at the intersection of Product Ownership, Business Analysis, Data, and Engineering;
• Proficiency in SQL for data analysis, validation, and business logic clarification;
• Experience with Power BI or equivalent analysis tools, data platforms, ETL, data validation, data structures, data flows, or report/dashboard testing;
• Understanding of backend systems, integrations, APIs, JSON/XML, technical dependencies, and delivery constraints;
• AI-ready mindset and hands-on familiarity with AI tools, including the ability to identify where AI can improve product ownership activities, analysis quality, documentation, and team productivity;
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills;
• Advanced English skills (C1) for client-facing work.

• Hybrid role in Georgia and 4 other locations.