Department:
Technology
Our Company Promise
We are committed to provide our Employees a stable work environment with equal opportunity for learning and personal growth. Creativity and innovation are encouraged for improving the effectiveness of Southwest Airlines. Above all, Employees will be provided the same concern, respect, and caring attitude within the organization that they are expected to share externally with every Southwest Customer.
Job Description:
As a Sr Product Owner supporting the Development Platforms Teams, you’ll help lead the strategy and delivery of developer tooling that powers Southwest’s AWS cloud environments at massive scale—supporting 800+ accounts and more than three million infrastructure resources. Serving as the Customer proxy, you’ll partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Engineering Teams to define and prioritize the backlog, co‑develop the roadmap, and guide products from concept through delivery across multiple Agile Teams. You’ll translate platform strategy into clear requirements, drive integrated solutions that improve the developer experience, and incorporate data‑driven insights and AI‑enabled capabilities into the product vision. By mentoring Product Owners, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring technical integrity throughout delivery, you’ll help enable faster, higher‑quality software development and strengthen the foundation that supports Southwest’s technology at scale.
Additional details
- This role is offered as a remote workplace position, which may require travel for trainings, meetings, conferences, etc. Outside of those required visits, the majority of your working time may be spent in a remote location, away from our Corporate Campus. Please note, while this is a remote position, there is limited group of states or localities ineligible for Employees to regularly perform their work off-site. Those ineligible locations are: Alaska, Delaware, New Jersey, North Dakota, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Puerto Rico.
- U.S. citizenship or current authorization to work in the U.S. required and no current or future work authorization sponsorship available.
We’re committed to fair hiring practices and to making employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, military or veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other legally protected characteristics.
Responsibilities
- Provide innovation and the end-to-end launch of integrated solutions/products across multiple Agile Teams
- Collaborate with Business Partners and Product Managers to co-develop a roadmap and drive products and features from concept to launch in a fast-paced environment across multiple Agile Teams
- Work with senior stakeholders and customers across the organization to inform the product vision, strategy, features, and prioritization
- Translate product roadmap features into well-defined product requirements including features, user stories, and acceptance test criteria across multiple products or complex solutions
- Turn data insights into products with actionable outcomes to the ultimate customer
- Oversee the design, construction, and implementation of integrated solutions ensuring functionality meets business requirements
- Coach and mentor other Product Owners across multiple Agile Teams to build, refine, prioritize and maintain their Team backlogs
- Review, approve, and drive iteration content by prioritizing user stories and accept user stories as complete
- Define and prioritize solutions to complex issues and effectively communicate dependencies, risks, issues and cope for complex solutions
- Coach and mentor Product Owners and Scrum Masters in the successful delivery of Scrum ceremonies such as iteration planning, iteration reviews, and demos
- May perform other job duties as directed by Employee's Leaders
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Ability to make decisions independently and demonstrate skills to support, guide, and mentor other Product Owners in the same business domain
- Ability to understand technical issues across multiple business systems and how business areas interact in order to drive toward the best solutions
- Ability to be analytical and problem solve with a high attention to detail
- Ability to show initiative by anticipating risks, issues and opportunities, and escalating them accordingly, while mentoring and coaching
- Skilled in presentation, facilitation, communication, and negotiation across multiple stakeholders and levels in the organization
- Ability to search for opportunities, focu
