How You'll Help Us Keep Climbing (Overview & Key Responsibilities)

Role Overview

We are looking for a detail-oriented Lead Product Owner to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial for translating product strategy into executable squad backlog and ensuring that our development efforts align closely with business objectives. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in agile practices and a proven record of accomplishment of successful achievement of Sprint Goals contributing to long term Product Goal and product backlog development execution with 2+ product squads.

Key Responsibilities

Product Execution

- Lead and partner with the IT squad to execute a customer-centric product vision, ensuring alignment with customer needs, business goals, and technical feasibility. Drive collaboration to deliver meaningful value through effective execution and alignment with strategic objectives.
- Understand the features being brought into an increment cycle which will have an impact on the product squad.
- Socialize the impacted features with the product squad.
- Work with the product squads to write the user stories with clear and concise acceptance criteria.
- Actively engage in squad demo from the squad members and accept the stories based on the acceptance criteria defined.
- Demonstrate a strong commitment to learning the intricacies of the product area, striving to gain expertise that enables you to make informed, strategic contributions to the development process.

Squad Collaboration And Leadership

- Actively participate in all squad ceremonies, including Daily stand-up, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives to ensure alignment and effective delivery of value.
- Facilitate the backlog refinement meeting to collaborate with the squad members on arriving at clear and unambiguous acceptance criteria for the prioritized backlog. Splitting bigger work items into smaller ones that can be delivered in a Sprint.
- Facilitate the sprint demos and show working software to the stakeholders to receive feedback and incorporate it in the backlog. Coordinate with other Product Owners to align cross-squad efforts and maintain coherence in product development.
- Actively participate, contribute and facilitate sessions in Product Owner community of practice to learn from each other's experience.

Stakeholder Engagement

- Maintain open lines of communication with Product Managers and relevant stakeholders to review feature progress
- Work closely with stakeholders and Product Managers to contribute to the overarching product vision and strategy with data-driven and evidence-based ideation and iterative solutioning

Agile Advocacy

- Champion agile methodologies within the squad, promoting best practices.
- Utilize tools like Agility and Aha! for effective product management and ensure data hygiene to track progress accurately.

AI Product Readiness & Application




- Demonstrates the ability to think forward about how AI may improve products, decisions, workflows, and customer or employee experiences. Applies AI thinking in ways appropriate to the maturity of the product, team, and environment. This may range from building foundational awareness and identifying practical use cases, to enabling responsible experimentation, to shaping scalable AI-enabled capabilities and broader product or ecosystem readiness.

What You Need To Succeed (Minimum Qualifications)

- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- 7+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, or similar technology-focused roles.
- Proven experience as a Product Owner, or similar role, in a dynamic and agile environment.
- Strong understanding of agile practices and principles, with a certification in Agile methodology preferred.
- Excellent collaboration, self-leadership, and stakeholder management skills to work with diverse teams and stakeholder groups.
- Ability to prioritize tasks efficiently and adapt to rapidly changing priorities.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with an ability to create clear and effective reports.
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Working knowledge or exposure to AI / Agentic development environments (e.g., Amazon Kiro or similar) to support specifying, prototyping, and collaboration with engineering teams.

Behavioral Competencies

- Lead initiatives with high accountability, create a collaborative environment with a solution-based approach.
- Serve as a trusted advisor and mentor for the team offering technical advice.
- Ability to communicate with precision, engaging team and stakeholders to build trust and reliable working relationships across cross-functional teams and geographies enabling organizational alignment.
- Ability to set priorities with the team by understanding interdependence, inspiring team members with consistent focus, quality output, and timelines.
- Constantly keep oneself updated on current technology & trends to drive innovative decisions through piloting forward-thinking approaches to complex problems in one’s own area of work.
- Inquisitive to understand customer priorities and business challenges while creating value for technical solutions.

About The Company What Will Give You a Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications) What started as a humble, little aerial crop-dusting operation called Huff Daland Dusters in 1924 has now grown into the U.S. global airline leader in safety, innovation, reliability,



and customer experience. Headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, Delta Air Lines is known for its operational excellence and award-winning customer service. Powered by our employees worldwide, Delta has led the airline industry in operational excellence for a decade while maintaining our reputation for award-winning customer service. With our mission of connecting the people and cultures of the globe, Delta strives to foster understanding across a diverse world and serve as a force for social good.

In 2026, Delta Air Lines continued to earn global recognition for its performance, culture and operational excellence. Delta was named to Glassdoor’s 2026 Top 100 Best Places to Work list for the ninth time, standing as the only airline recognized. Delta also secured the 11th spot on Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies list, marking its 13th consecutive year earning this distinction.

Delta was also recognized by Cirium as the top on-time airline in North America for the fifth consecutive year, underscoring its unwavering commitment to reliability and customer experience.

About The Delta Technology Hub (DTH), Bangalore The DTH is one of Delta Air Lines' investments in world-class business capabilities and technology aimed at transforming how Delta Air Lines operates and provides world-class travel experiences to its customers through innovation and cutting-edge methodologies. By continuously reimagining processes and driving technology-led transformation, the Delta Technology Hub plays a pivotal role in Scripting The Future Of Aviation. The organization is certified by the Great Place to Work Institute (India).

The Delta Technology

Hub was a finalist for the iVolunteer Awards 2024/2025 in the "Leader in Employee Volunteering" category. This nomination highlights our remarkable volunteering initiatives and the outstanding practices we implement to encourage and support our employee volunteering program.

For more information, please visit www.deltatechhub.com

Why join?

- Technology is a key enabler of the differentiated services that Delta provides. At the DTH, you get the opportunity to work on projects with a significant impact on business outcomes and customer experience.
- Deepen your knowledge by taking part in multifaceted learning and development programs –exposure to extensive internal and partner repositories, institutional affiliations, and industry SIG (Special Interest Groups) partnerships.
- Immerse yourself in an employee-centric culture.
- Develop deep and broad business acumen on airline operations while retaining focus on cutting-edge technology driven solutions.
- Avail a full range of benefits that support you and your family: Medical Insurance, Transportation to and from the DTH office, Complementary Cafeteria Meals, Special Travel opportunities and Travel Privileges, Car Lease Program, Paid time off, Parental Perks and National Pension Scheme.

📌 Lead Product Owner (Bengaluru)
🏢 Delta Technology Hub
📍 Bengaluru