Product Manager – Air Traffic Management: Predictive Airspace Flow & Capacity
easyJet · United Kingdom-London-London Luton Airport ·
- Category
- Product
- Company size
- 1000+
easyJet is hiring a Product Manager to own end-to-end products that forecast airspace capacity, ATFM regulation risk and network flow, helping the airline anticipate constraints and re-plan flights ahead of disruption. Day to day: setting vision and roadmap, leading a cross-functional squad, tracking OKRs/KPIs, and managing vendors for a 24/7 operation.
At easyJet, we are on a mission to transform our integrated Planning and Operations into a world class digitally optimised operation, through the use of new and emerging technologies.
Air Traffic Management is one of the single largest sources of disruption, delay and excess fuel burn across our network. European airspace is more constrained than ever, and the ability to anticipate where capacity will be lost — and to re-plan ahead of it rather than react to it — is a major commercial and operational opportunity for the airline.
We are looking for a Product Manager to take end-to-end accountability for our Predictive Airspace Flow & Capacity products, working alongside the Senior Product Manager, fellow Product Managers, Airline Operations Platform team and the Air Traffic Management, Flight Ops and wider Operations Control teams who rely on these products every day.
Product and its ways of working is new to easyJet, and we are looking for people who are able to help us mature our capability as we journey through the skies together!
This role sits at the intersect between the business, technology teams and our customers, and will really make the difference. The team is highly specialised in emerging technologies and importantly understands how planning, operational and commercial decisions connect in a rapidly changing landscape.
JOB PURPOSE
As a Product Manager – Air Traffic Management, you will own the strategy, development and delivery of one to three products that forecast airspace capacity, ATFM regulation risk and network flow, directly impacting millions of passengers and frontline staff across Europe.
Your products will help easyJet see constraint before it bites\: predicting where en-route and airport capacity will be reduced, modelling the network impact of ATFM regulations and CTOTs, and recommending the re-routing, re-timing and fuel and payload decisions that protect our schedule, our customers and our cost base.
Working closely with the Senior Product Manager and the Head of Technology, you will take full accountability for your products across their whole lifecycle — setting the vision, defining the roadmap and leading the cross-functional team that delivers it. That team, made up of engineers, analysts, Data Scientists and delivery partners, will rely on your leadership to ensure every product decision is grounded in customer insight, operational efficiency and commercial value. You will also contribute to the strategy of the wider product group, making sure your products earn their place within it.
This is a highly collaborative role. You’ll work closely with Network Control, Flight Planning, Fuel Efficiency, Crewing and Airports teams, as well as third-party suppliers, ANSPs and industry bodies such as EUROCONTROL, to translate complex operational challenges into clear priorities and value-focused roadmaps. You’ll align your product strategy with the Product group roadmap and broader corporate objectives, ensuring your plans support both near-term delivery and long-term transformation. You’ll provide clear, data-driven insight that informs decisions for the Product Group.
Your products serve the day of operations — the point at which a plan becomes a flight. That means the legal flight plan and the joint captain and dispatcher release; the weather picture behind it, including real-time monitoring, alternate airport planning and wind and turbulence routing; the final fuel load and the tankering and replanning decisions that follow; and the ATC flow picture, where restrictions are managed, slots are optimised and congestion is routed around.
It also means what happens once the aircraft is airborne\: tracking flights in real time, adjusting for winds, congestion and military airspace activation, issuing re-clearances and re-routes, and handling weather deviations, airport closures and diversion planning. Underpinning all of it is the coordination between Flight Planning, Network Control, where rotations and fuel impacts are balanced against one another. You will not own the operation itself, but you will own the products, data and decision support that make these decisions faster, better informed and more resilient — and you will need a clear view of where your products start and stop, and where they hand over to the Flight Planning mission.
You will work in close partnership with the Airline Operations Platform team to define a clear, value-driven roadmap that sequences delivery around the value it unlocks rather than the order in which it is asked for. Your products do not create value in isolation\: they matter because of how they connect into the wider work of optimising the end-to-end operation, and because of the decisions they enable in the platform and in the teams downstream of it. You will be expected to articulate that bigger picture, and to show clearly how your roadmap advances our strategic objective of leading the industry in disruption management.
This role is ideal for a hands-on product thinker who thrives in a high-volume, high-impact environment and can balance a compelling product vision with day-to-day execution.
JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES
Product Strategy & Vision
Define and own the vision, strategy and roadmap for one to three products, from idea to value.
Ensure alignment with the strategy of the wider product group, organisational goals, user needs, and evolving market and operational dynamics.
Build the value case for your products and manage the resource and funding allocated to them, contributing to the wider product group budget owned by the Senior Product Manager.
Stakeholder Management
Build and maintain strong working relationships with stakeholders across the business and with external partners and suppliers.
Act as the recognised expert and single point of contact for your products, translating priorities into actionable initiatives and negotiating trade-offs where necessary, escalating decisions that span the wider group
Product Planning & Execution
Own the end-to-end lifecycle of your products, from idea and discovery through delivery, adoption and optimisation.
Translate business challenges into clear, prioritised product backlogs and ensure timely, high-quality delivery.
Define and track success metrics (OKRS and KPIS), ensuring your products deliver tangible business outcomes. Use data and insights to inform decisions, iterate on solutions, and continuously improve product performance.
Cross-Functional Leadership
Provide day-to-day leadership to a multidisciplinary squad, ensuring alignment across business SMEs, Technology, Data, Analytics, and external partners.
Contribute to a high-performing, collaborative team culture focused on delivering measurable value, and share practice openly with fellow Product Managers across the group.
Governance & Compliance
Ensure your product development adheres to legal, regulatory and operational standards.
Apply best practice in product governance, risk management, and ethical technology use.
Communication & Reporting
Act as the focal point for communication on your products, providing regular updates to the Senior Product Manager, Head of Technology and wider stakeholders on progress, risks and value realisation.
Ensure transparency and alignment with stakeholders at every level.
Product, Service & Vendor Management
Own the ongoing service performance of your products, working with Technology, suppliers and support partners to ensure the availability, reliability and support a 24/7 operation demands — agreeing and monitoring the service levels that matter to users, acting as the product-side escalation point for major incidents, and ensuring change is introduced safely with testing, training, documentation and operational readiness in place.
Manage the commercial and delivery relationship with your software vendors and implementation partners in line with easyJet’s procurement and supplier management frameworks, owning or contributing to contracts, licensing and subscriptions, tracking consumption and cost, running regular service and roadmap reviews, and making and defending clear configure, extend or replace decisions.
Represent easyJet externally in user groups, customer advisory boards and product forums to influence vendor roadmaps, maintain an evidence-based view of the vendor and wider market landscape, and build relationships with peer airlines to share practice and strengthen easyJet’s position in roadmap and commercial discussions.
COMPETENCIES
Ownership and Delivery
Achieves in line with expectations by setting stretching objectives focussed on key priorities. Has a strong results orientation, anticipating obstacles and dealing with setbacks. Holds their squad and delivery partners to account where work is not progressing in line with expectations. Considers the broader implications of their decisions on the rest of the business. Analyses an issue from a business, rather than a functional or personal, perspective.
Building Relationships
Communicates information in a clear and compelling way to relevant people. Builds trust quickly with a wide range of people, both within and outside of own function, to ensure that everyone is aligned. Identifies and proactively involves relevant people in their decision making, seeking to listen to and understand a wide range of views and opinions. Proactively builds relationships and works cooperatively with individuals across the business.
Business Performance
Understands the key financial and operating concepts that drive the business and the interactions between them. Has a strong understanding of the industry and uses this to achieve best practice in what they are doing. Understands the broader implications of what they are doing and seeks to ensure alignment and minimise duplication and overlap. Understands the long-term strategy of easyJet and how their products and objectives align to it.
Customer and Shareholder Value
Seeks to identify and manage risk on an ongoing basis, ensuring that the customer’s and the organisation’s needs are balanced appropriately. Builds long-term and sustainable relationships with customers by continually challenging how their products can exceed customer expectations. Always has the customer in mind when making decisions. Understands the needs of shareholder groups and the different perspectives that they have.
Leading Through Influence
Provides clear direction to their squad, ensuring that everyone is clear on how their work aligns to the bigger picture. Prepared to have difficult conversations with others to maintain a high level of performance. Leads without formal authority, earning followership through clarity, credibility and consistency between what they say and how they behave. Engages positively with others across their department and uses formal and informal recognition on a regular basis.