(Immediate Start) Senior Product Owner I T4

About Marriott: Marriott Tech Accelerator is part of Marriott International, a global leader in hospitality. Marriott International, Inc. is a leading American multinational company that operates a vast array of lodging brands, including hotels and residential properties. It consists of over 30 well-known brands and nearly 8,900 properties situated in 141 countries and territories. Role Title: Product Owner HINT Position Summary: The Product Owner is responsible for managing innovative and emerging products within the Hotel Operations and Building Systems Team. This role will collaborate with business partners and engineering/ facilities systems vendors to maintain a well-groomed product backlog of feature enhancements that include refined user stories ready for development and solid timelines. The Product owner will demonstrate management skills and leadership in a highly matrixed environment and must be comfortable working with multiple stakeholders on numerous competing priorities. The candidate will be moderately technical with a proven record of creative solutioning and problem-solving in addition to developing multi-year technology roadmaps for products. Job Responsibilities: Technical Product Owner: - Maintain a well-groomed product backlog of features to include refined user stories that are ready for development - Help define new product features and optimizations of existing ones, and incorporate them into product roadmaps - Support the definition of guest service product requirements and development of the product roadmap - Provide clear vision and scope documentation, use cases, workflows, and wire-frames to support development - Coordinate testing, acceptance and delivery of enhancements between vendor and MI business partners - Coordinate with support teams for defect resolution Demonstrating and Applying Discipline Knowledge: - Provides technical expertise and support to persons inside and outside of the department - Demonstrates knowledge of job-relevant issues, products, systems, and processes - Demonstrates knowledge of function-specific procedures - Keeps up-to-date technically and applies new knowledge to job - Knowledge of and understanding of complex algorithms Additional Responsibilities: - Proven ability to lead and work with cross-functional teams in support of specific business priorities - Ability to solve problems quickly, think strategically, and drive data-driven decision making - Ability to simultaneously manage multiple projects and aggressive timelines - Strong interpersonal skills and success in cross-functional relationship-building at all levels, ability to drive consensus through influence and fact-based approach - Effective written and oral communications skills with sensitivity to global communication needs - Demonstrates self-confidence, energy and enthusiasm in leading and influencing teams - Proficiency in Office software products and digital collaboration tool Skill and Experience: - 5+ years' experience in information technology application design or development - 4+ years' experience as a product owner - Ability to explain product vision, business objective, technical feasibility, define requirements - Ability to drive vendor accountability for technical implementation against defined features and requirements - Excellent communicator, both written and spoken - Experience with Agile Development methodology and tools (CSPO or CSM certification a plus) - Experience with project management tools such as JIRA, Confluence, and Power BI - Demonstrated ability to deliver results under challenging conditions, particularly when faced with complexity, ambiguity, and aggressive timelines - Demonstrated ability to assess customer needs, creatively approach solutions, and decide and influence appropriate courses of action - Strong project management skills (PMI certification a plus) - Strong process management, negotiating, influencing, and problem-resolution skills Preferred: - Familiarity with hospitality industry applications and processes - Prior experience managing and working with on-shore and off-shore service providers - Graduate degree - Proven expertise in software integrations, particularly within the API landscape Education and Certifications: - Undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field. Or related equivalent experience