Company Alaska Airlines
The Team
Guided by our purpose, core values, and leadership principles, we are creating an airline people love. Our corporate teams set the strategies and operational plans to ensure the success of our company. Whether we use our expertise in accounting, human resources, finance, planning, legal, spaneting, or any of our operational divisions, our shared passion for travel and our guests is what motivates us to achieve excellence each day. If you share our passion for creating an airline people love, we want to hear from you.
Role Summary
The Senior Product Manager is a subject matter expert responsible for crafting the vision and backlogs across multiple product verticals. As an individual contributor, this role presents options for the long-term strategy for their products to key stakeholders and exercises considerable judgement and initiative to solve complex problems. This role will work closely with business stakeholders and external vendors to deliver features that support company objectives. The ideal candidate can support and maintain multiple legacy applications while managing a roadmap of new initiatives aimed at modernizing those legacy applications.
Key Duties
Responsible for the vision and direction for their products.
Responsible for the creation, communication, and maintenance of the product roadmap and backlog to ensure visibility and transparency of work planned.
Responsible for the creation of Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). Ability to communicate progress to leadership and explain why key results are/or are not being achieved.
Make decisions and maintains a value-based prioritized backlog of opportunities for products which align to Alaska’s business strategy and goals. Exercise considerable judgment to make key tradeoff decisions.
Develops business cases and economic models backed by data. Use product discovery techniques to move from idea to prototype.
Utilizes data, including transactional data, usage statistics, and industry analyst reports to inform prioritization and solutions.
Deliver results for key product metrics and goals that supports business objectives.
Ensure timely communication of upcoming releases and engineering requirements with stakeholder consumable descriptions.
Facilitate Release Readiness reviews, Go/No-Go decisions, and ongoing service operational quality discussions.
Establishes and maintains relationships with stakeholders across the organization to communicate status, align priorities, and ensure operational support for go to spanet plans.
Engages in constructive conversations with - and deliver tough messages when needed - to key stakeholders, including senior executives, while continually building professional and productive relationships.
Stays current with industry trends as well as competitors’ enterprise software capabilities.
Develops user stories granular enough to be achieved in a single sprint, elaboration of Epics and Features, creating and maintaining the product backlog, supporting user and application testing and coordinating release activities.
Coordinates new and changed functionality with affected business groups to ensure seamless rollout of new capabilities.
Maintains awareness of third-party capabilities that provide viable product solutions. Negotiate contracts and manage vendor relationships.
Job-Specific Experience, Education & Skills
Required
4 years of experience in a product management role, or equivalent work experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Product Management, Marketing, Business, Digital Platforms, or a related field; or an additional 2 years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
Experience working directly with back-office enterprise systems and applications.
Experience managing external vendors to deliver technology solutions.
Strong familiarity with enterprise software development, with proven ability to partner with business stakeholders and vendors.
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, coupled with a history of building strong cross-functional relationships.
Proven record managing digital products in a complex technical environment.
High school diploma or equivalent.
Minimum age of 18.
Authorized to work in the U.S.
Preferred
Job-Specific Leadership Expectations
Embody our values to own safety, do the right thing, be caring and kind, and deliver performance.
Salary Range
$115,350 - $173,050 / year
Salary Details
Pay will be based on multiple factors, including and not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset while balancing internal equity relative to other Alaska/Horizon employees. Alaska/Horizon is committed to fair, unbiased compensation along with competitive benefits in all locations in which we operate.
Note: We don’t typically hire at the top of the range.
Total Rewards
Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air pay and benefits can vary by company, location, number of regularly scheduled hours worked, length of employment, and employment status.
Free stand-by travel privileges on Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air
Comprehensive well-being programs including medical, dental and vision benefits
Generous 401k match program
Quarterly and annual bonus plans
Generous holiday and paid time off
For more information about Alaska/Hawaiian/Horizon Total Rewards please visit our career site and view benefits.
FLSA Status Exempt
Employment Type Full-Time
Regular/Temporary Regular
Requisition Type Management
Apply by 7:00 PM Pacific Time on 8/12/2025
Location Seattle - Hub
Regulatory Information Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement It is the policy of Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment and to ensure equal opportunity in all terms, conditions, and benefits of employment or potential employment.
We also prohibit discrimination and harassment against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
We have established an EEO Compliance Program under Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (“Section 503”) and the Vietnam Era Veteran’s Readjustment Assistance Act of 1974 (“VEVRAA”). All applicants and employees are treated without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. In addition, we have established an audit and reporting system to allow for effective measurement of its equal employment opportunity activities.
To implement this policy, we will:
(1) Recruit, hire, train and promote qualified persons in all job titles, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and any other legally protected categories;
(2) Ensure that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements; and
(3) Ensure that all personnel actions and employment activities such as compensation, benefits, promotions, layoffs, return from layoff, Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines and Horizon Air sponsored programs, and tuition assistance will be administered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected categories.
Employees and applicants for employment will not be subjected to harassment, intimidation, threats, coercion or discrimination because they have engaged or may engage in (1) filing a complaint, (2) opposing any act or practice made unlawful by, or exercising any other right protected by, any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA, or (3) assisting or participating in any investigation, compliance evaluation, hearing, or any other activity related to the administration of any Federal, State or local law requiring equal opportunity, including Section 503 and the equal opportunity provisions of VEVRAA.
Government Contractor & Department of Transportation (DOT) Regulations Alaska Airlines, Hawaiian Airlines & Horizon Air are regulated by the Department of Transportation (DOT – regulations, 49 CFR part 40) and all applicants are advised that post-offer and/or pre-employment drug testing will be conducted to determine the presence of marijuana, cocaine, opioids, phencyclidine (PCP) and amphetamines or a metabolite of these drugs prior to any offer or employment or transfer into a safety-sensitive position. Failure to submit to testing or positive indications of drug use will render the applicant ineligible for employment with Alaska Airlines/Hawaiian Airlines/Horizon Air and any employment offer will be withdrawn.
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Job Locations USA-WA-SeaTac
Requisition ID 2025-15058
Category Corporate & Operations
