Manager, Customer Experience Travel Rewards

Intro

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!

Why you'll love this job

• The job is part of the Digital Transformation team within the Customer Experience Organization.
• Responsible for working closely with stakeholders across Commercial, Loyalty, Cobrand, Customer Experience and IT partners, and work within the Travel Rewards product team (UX, IT, Product teams, Data teams) to drive the strategy and implementation of the Travel Rewards product and initiatives. Plays a critical role to lead initiatives and products to continuously innovate and improve the digital experience of our customers, listen to what customers need, to pivot quickly and deliver value, drive data driven decisions across the organization and work closely with IT colleagues on American’s delivery transformation efforts.
  
  

What You'll Do

• Helps to set the vision and builds the strategy for the Digital Customer Experience Travel Rewards team
• Creates technology assets that are technology forward, nimble and allow for driving innovation with quicker delivery times
• Defines the product objectives and key results (OKRs) and supports the team in making data driven decisions towards meeting the OKRs
• Partners with RM, loyalty, cobrand, operational, commercial, and technology groups to innovate and transform the customer experience for Travel Rewards products and features
• Leads large, complex initiatives for Digital and Customer Experience, develops product capabilities through coaching, empowering, and providing growth opportunities for Product Owners
• Drives greater self-service via digital assets to provide an improved customer experience and reduce servicing pressure on call centers and airports
• Creates a culture which fosters collaboration and continuous improvement through incorporating the delivery transformation principles
• Engages the team to constantly prioritize the backlog of opportunities, and to ideate and deliver on the business outcomes, champions delivery transformation process to continuously improve product quality, time to market, and team member satisfaction
• Engages the customer, team and the wider organization to show ongoing product value and success, and incorporates voice of the customer to improve the experience for our customers and improve LTR
  
  

All you'll need for success

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/training
• 5 years related work experience
• At least 1 year experience in a product and/or technology leadership role
• Experience managing large technology transformation efforts to drive business outcomes
  
  

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience

• Experience with digital technology
• Experience with airline technology
• Experience with product strategy and development
• Prior experience as Product Owner and/or Product Manager
  
  

Skills, Licenses & Certifications

• Strong problem solving, negotiation, and critical thinking ability
• Demonstrated ability to perform both independently and as a leader, handle multiple assignments, and respond to changing priorities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Believes in and promotes the American Airlines five leadership attributes: caring, collaboration, development, results, future
  
  

What You'll Get

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
  
  

Feel free to be yourself at American

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.