Are you ready to explore a world of possibilities, both at work and during your time off? Join our American Airlines family, and you’ll travel the world, grow your expertise and become the best version of you. As you embark on a new journey, you’ll tackle challenges with flexibility and grace, learning new skills and advancing your career while having the time of your life. Feel free to enrich both your personal and work life and hop on board!

• As a member of our Product Agility team, you will be part of a multi-year technology transformation program where we are focused on transforming the American Airlines IT organization in many ways, anchored by our corporate vision and mission.
• Across six workstreams, we are driving resiliency in delivery, excellence in engineering, and modernizing our technology. Your role in support of this journey is driven by working directly with key stakeholders to make strategic decisions that align to our labor transformation enabling a globalized workforce with new roles, responsibilities and titles across IT.

• Oversee and manage multiple cross-functional initiatives, ensuring timely and successful delivery of transformation initiatives
• Act as a change agent within the organization, developing and implementing change management strategies to ensure smooth adoption of new processes, thinking and ways of working
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, including IT leaders, business partners, and team members across the company
• Positively influence stakeholders on the transformation strategy by managing expectations, resolving conflicts and ensuring alignment to the transformation goals
• Work closely with senior leadership to define the transformation roadmap, aligning with overall business strategy and objectives
• Utilize effective change management to minimize resistance, maximize adoption, and generate support of new processes, technologies, and strategies across the organization
• Maintain effective communication channels that allow for a supportive feedback process
• Manages dependencies and helps prioritize work accordingly
• Tracks benefits and manages risks at the program level
• Acts as an escalation point for project risks and issues

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelors degree in Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years of applied work experience in program/project management
• 5 years of applied work experience in leading Agile teams

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• ​7 years of applied work experience in program/project management
• Proven track record of managing large-scale transformation projects across different functional areas
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders at all levels
• Ability to work under pressure, manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines
• Expertise in agile methodologies such as scrum, kanban, lean, including practical experience in applying these frameworks
• A proactive mindset, continually seeking opportunities to improve processes and outcomes
• Demonstrated familiarity with agile product management tools such as Aha!, Azure DevOps or related tools

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Relevant certifications in Agile methodologies and project management disciplines
• Broad technical acumen including team collaboration, consultative selling, problem solving and critical thinking
• Highly motivated, self-driven, and capable of working collaboratively with various levels of management and internal teams to resolve demanding tasks
• Ability to work successfully in a team environment, take initiative, and grasp concepts quickly
• Excellent knowledge of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)

Feel free to take advantage of all that American Airlines has to offer:

• Travel Perks: Ready to explore the world? You, your family and your friends can reach 365 destinations on more than 6,800 daily flights across our global network.
• Health Benefits: On day one, you’ll have access to your health, dental, prescription and vision benefits to help you stay well. And that’s just the start, we also offer virtual doctor visits, flexible spending accounts and more.
• Wellness Programs: We want you to be the best version of yourself – that’s why our wellness programs provide you with all the right tools, resources and support you need.
• 401(k) Program: Available upon hire and, depending on the workgroup, employer contributions to your 401(k) program are available after one year.
• Additional Benefits: Other great benefits include our Employee Assistance Program, pet insurance and discounts on hotels, cars, cruises and more

From the team members we hire to the customers we serve, inclusion and diversity are the foundation of the dynamic workforce at American Airlines. Our 20+ Employee Business Resource Groups are focused on connecting our team members to our customers, suppliers, communities and shareholders, helping team members reach their full potential and creating an inclusive work environment to meet and exceed the needs of our diverse world.

Are you ready to feel a tremendous sense of pride and satisfaction as you do your part to keep the largest airline in the world running smoothly as we care for people on life’s journey? Feel free to be yourself at American.