Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Marriott International is the world’s largest hotel company, operating a broad portfolio of hotel brands and opportunities for associates. The FLEX Manager, Product Owner, Unified Experience Layer, manages a defined product area or squad-aligned capability, translating product strategy and stakeholder priorities into a delivery-ready backlog. The role partners with cross-functional technology and business teams to support Agile delivery, make team-level product decisions, manage dependencies and trade-offs, and ensure high-value outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Owns and prioritizes the team backlog for a defined UXL product area or squad-aligned capability, ensuring work aligns to product vision, stakeholder priorities, and measurable outcomes
- Partners with Product Management to translate product strategy into actionable team-level backlog priorities, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and delivery sequencing
- Makes team-level product decisions related to backlog priority, scope trade-offs, sequencing, Definition of Ready readiness, and acceptance criteria alignment, escalating cross-product or portfolio decisions as appropriate
- Maintains a well-refined, delivery-ready backlog with clear epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, dependencies, risks, assumptions, and environmental prerequisites
- Leads or actively participates in backlog refinement, sprint planning, PI Planning, demos, retrospectives, release readiness, and related Agile ceremonies
- Presents epics and high-level user stories to the team to enable discussion, estimation, refinement, and alignment on delivery approach
- Drives stakeholder conversations to clarify business context, customer needs, outcomes, dependencies, assumptions, constraints, and delivery expectations
- Serves as the primary product point of contact for assigned UXL consumers, contributors, and stakeholder groups, communicating priorities, timelines, risks, dependencies, and trade-off decisions clearly
- Partners with Business Analysts, where applicable, to elaborate requirements, document business scenarios, refine acceptance criteria, and ensure story readiness while remaining accountable for backlog priority and product decisions
- Documents product flows, use cases, workflows, and capability expectations to support consumer onboarding, adoption, and shared team understanding
- Applies working knowledge of API-driven product delivery, GraphQL concepts, and UXL capabilities to support effective requirement definition and solution alignment
- Partners with Engineering and Architecture to validate feasibility, clarify solution options, and ensure product requirements are technically actionable
- Supports QA and engineering teams in clarifying test scenarios, regression scope, validation expectations, and acceptance criteria alignment, and validates completed functionality against business intent
- Uses stakeholder feedback, product usage, operational insights, and outcome measures to identify backlog improvements and product optimization opportunities
- Contributes to team development through knowledge sharing, mentoring, adoption of best practices, and communicates assigned product area KPIs, adoption, performance, and delivery outcomes to leadership and stakeholders
Skills
- 5 years' experience in product ownership, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, information technology application design/development, or a related technology discipline; undergraduate degree or equivalent experience/certification
- Experience with API-driven product delivery, Agile/Scrum/SAFe methodologies, product development planning and execution, and tools including Jira, Confluence, and Postman
- Demonstrated ability to manage and refine product backlogs, epics, user stories, acceptance criteria, and Definition of Ready artifacts while partnering with Product Management, Engineering, Architecture, QA, Business Analysts, Scrum Masters, RTEs, and stakeholders in a matrixed environment
- Working knowledge of GraphQL, developer-facing API capabilities, shared enterprise product capabilities, and consumer onboarding/adoption practices
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams, communicate priorities, dependencies, risks, and trade-offs, and deliver results under complexity, ambiguity, and aggressive timelines
- Experience participating in PI Planning, backlog refinement, dependency management, release readiness, outcome/KPI reporting, and continuous improvement of product ownership practices
Benefits
- 401(k) plan
- Stock purchase plan
- Discounts at Marriott properties
- Commuter benefits
- Employee assistance plan
- Childcare discounts
- Full-time positions also offer coverage for medical, dental, vision, health care flexible spending account, dependent care flexible spending account, life insurance, disability insurance, accident insurance, adoption expense reimbursements, and paid parental leave.
- Washington Applicants Only: Employees will accrue paid sick leave, 0.0384 PTO balance for every hour worked and be eligible to receive minimum of 9 holidays annually.
- Headquarters-based positions are considered hybrid, for candidates within a commuting distance to Bethesda, MD; candidates outside of commuting distance to Bethesda, MD will be considered for Remote positions.
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