Lead Product Owner – Agentic API Design & Governance

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Powering the agentic revolution in travel. Sabre is an AI-native technology leader, backed by one of the world’s largest travel data clouds. Built on an open, modular, cloud-native architecture, Sabre serves as the backbone for both established leaders and bold, new disruptors, guiding them to the next age of travel retailing through intelligent, connected, and personalized experiences. With AI at its core and operating at unparalleled scale, Sabre transforms insights into innovation, empowering airlines, hoteliers, agencies and other partners to retail, distribute and fulfill travel worldwide.

What we offer?

Work arrangements

• Hybrid working mode; 3 chosen days from the office in a week
• Flexible working hours: Maintain your work-life balance by adjusting your working hours to your needs

Benefits:

Paid time off

• Year-End-Break: enjoy additional fully paid days off during the last week of the year
• Paid parental leave: Take up to 12 weeks off with pay after birth or adoption of a child. Sabre Global Paid Parental Leave runs concurrently with local leave policies.
• Paid volunteer time: take up to 4 days annually to give your time to a charitable organization of your choice

Your money

• My Benefit platform/Multisport card: enjoy the benefit cafeteria system and use popular sport card
• Tax deduction: take the opportunity to claim deductible costs, reducing your income tax
• Employee Capital Plans: profit from long-term saving scheme co-financed by Sabre and the State Treasury
• Baby Bonus: benefit from one-time allowance on childbirth or adoption
• Say Thanks program: collect points on recognition program and transfer them to wide variety of gifts and services

Health and wellness

• Luxmed medical coverage: take care of yourself and your family with the extensive medical package with a broad range of additional services
• Foreign travel insurance: feel safe going abroad with free Allianz insurance offered as part of our Lux Med package
• Employee Assistance Program: find help in free, confidential program with a certified counselor
• Mindfulness & meditation apps: take care of your mental and physical health
• Life insurance: sign up for free, high coverage life insurance program

Career development

• Professional development: access to e-learning platforms as well as join Sabre live learning sessions
• Certification and tuition reimbursement
• Our Communities: join one of our team member groups focused on sharing knowledge and best practices (Google Developers Group, Innovation Lab Community, Women in Technology, SOLVE!T and many more)

And more

• Car and bike parking
• Fun & Relax zone in modern office: enjoy electronic tables to work, foosball, ping pong, pool table, swings, massage chairs and terraces to admire a panoramic view of Kraków. We have parents’ rooms as well
• No dress code
• Innovation Lab: access Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality equipment, Robot construction kit, 3D printers and many more
• Attractive Referral Bonus: earn $2500 USD for every hired referral

Wymagania

Core Experience:

• 7+ years of comprehensive software development and technical product management experience.
• Highly Sought After: Direct experience within the last 12 months bringing agentic/AI solutions to market, specifically defining the standards, documentation, and measurement frameworks for AI-driven tools.
• Proven track record of setting up API governance structures and cross-company quality initiatives.
• Hands-on experience dealing with both legacy and newer API standards (SOAP, REST, gRPC/RPC) and successfully leading transformation programs to elevate company platforms to modern standards.

Skills & Competencies:

• Deep technical expertise in producing OpenAPI Specification files and working with API-First Service Frameworks.
• Strong understanding of LLM constraints, including token limits, prompt security, and JSON payload parsing capabilities.
• Ability to enforce consistent data taxonomy, standard naming conventions, and scalable self-referencing patterns.
• Experience ensuring documentation is written clearly to support a global developer audience.
• Comfort navigating a multi-stakeholder environment, collaborating with cross-functional teams of product managers, architects, and subject-matter experts to curate API documentation.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to confidently present technical strategies to large groups and executive leadership.
• Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related technical fields.

Sabre is looking for a highly technical Principal Product Owner to lead our API design governance, with a specialized focus on Agentic-Ready architectures. In this role, you will be responsible for the product vision, standardization, and execution of our API portfolio Design and Governance framework, ensuring it meets the highest standards for both human developers and artificial intelligence. Your mission is to enable Sabre teams deliver a strong Developer and Agent Experience (AX) across our ecosystem.

You will establish the governance structures that dictate how Sabre develops, deploys, documents, and measures the effectiveness of APIs in the AI era. Treating our APIs as products, you will champion documentation strategies that empower customers globally to rapidly integrate our services without frustration. As a Principal Product Owner, you will drive transformation programs that migrate legacy protocols (like SOAP) to modern architectures (REST, RPC, and Agentic) while coaching API designers to improve consumer adoption. This role requires a comprehensive development background, deep technical curiosity, and the strategic foresight to prepare Sabre’s platform for an LLM-driven future.

Zakres obowiązków

• API Governance & Agentic Standards Strategy:
• Define and enforce Sabre API governance standards across the organization, establishing definitive methodologies for API design reviews.
• Establish and govern Agentic-Ready API design standards, ensuring our ecosystem architecture directly aligns with business intent and simplifies complex internal orchestrations.
• Set strategic guardrails for secure and efficient AI integrations, addressing critical factors such as context window limits, payload optimization, and prompt security.
• Enforce structural rules for API payloads to guarantee that Large Language Models can reliably parse, reason over, and interact with our data.
• Coach API teams during design reviews, driving quality with a focus on consumer adoption and overall consistency across Sabre's portfolio.
• Documentation & Developer Experience (DX):
• Champion the philosophy that APIs are products, advocating for intuitive, highly curated, and self-serve external documentation.
• Oversee the strategy for API examples, ensuring documentation efficiently covers the vast majority of critical developer and agent use cases.
• Govern documentation quality specifically optimized for LLM consumption, setting standards that eliminate ambiguity and prevent model misinterpretation.
• Mandate standards for scenario-rich, realistic examples that provide clear context and guidance for both human developers and AI agents.
• Oversee the production of supplemental Developer artifacts that accelerate integration, including User Guides, interactive collections, Migration Guides, and Workflow demonstrations.
• Technical Transformation & Execution:
• Be a key player in transformation programs, moving legacy standards (e.g., SOAP) to modern RESTful, RPC, and Agentic-Ready API ecosystems.
• Oversee the creation of well-organized OpenAPI Specification files and confirm they meet strict quality test thresholds.
• Guarantee backwards compatibility, versioned changes, and safe architectural practices to