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At Air Canada, we are committed to redefining the travel experience through innovative technology and seamless product delivery. As we continue to strengthen our position as a global leader, we are looking for a Specialist, Product Delivery to join our dynamic IT Product team in Montreal.

This role is pivotal in ensuring that complex Distribution Platform capabilities, including New Distribution Capabilities (NDC), B2B and payment solutions, are delivered predictably and in alignment with strategic priorities. As a core member of the Product team, the Specialist, Product Delivery works in close partnership with Product Management and Engineering leadership to coordinate the integrated delivery of features spanning multiple PODs, systems, business functions, operational teams, vendors, and external partners.

If you thrive in fast-paced environments, excel at leading through influence, and are passionate about enabling world-class digital experiences for travellers, this is an chance to make a meaningful impact on Air Canada’s transformation journey.

Responsibilities

- Feature Delivery Management
- Lead the end-to-end delivery of complex product features from planning through release, stabilization, and transition to operations, ensuring alignment with product strategy, customer value, and business objectives.
- Develop and maintain an integrated delivery plan covering scope, milestones, ownership, dependencies, risks, decisions, testing, release readiness, and operational activities.




- Coordinate delivery across multiple PODs, technology platforms, business functions, operational teams, vendors, and external partners when a feature extends beyond the core Product team.
- Partner with the Product Manager and Engineering Lead to translate product priorities into clear, achievable delivery commitments aligned with POD capacity, technical feasibility, sequencing, and business priorities.
- Establish clear accountability across participating teams and ensure required product, technical, business, operational, and partner activities are identified, assigned, and completed.
- Lead cross-functional delivery checkpoints for complex features, focusing on milestone alignment, dependency resolution, readiness, decisions, and delivery confidence without duplicating routine POD ceremonies.

- Dependency, Risk and Decision Management

- Proactively identify and manage cross-team, cross-system, business, operational, vendor, and partner dependencies that may affect delivery.
- Maintain an integrated view of delivery risks, issues, assumptions, dependencies, capacity constraints, and key decisions.
- Drive timely resolution of blockers and elevate material risks with a clear statement of impact, options, recommendation, and required decision.
- Ensure changes to scope, sequencing, timing,



or technical approach are reflected across all impacted delivery and readiness plans.

- Release and Operational Readiness

- Plan and manage integrated release timelines in alignment with the Product roadmap, POD delivery plans, partner commitments, operational constraints, and business priorities.
- Coordinate readiness across Product, Engineering, Architecture, QA, Cybersecurity, Operations, Implementation, Business, and external partner teams.
- Facilitate readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions, ensuring that testing, documentation, approvals, deployment planning, communications, training, business-process changes, support procedures, monitoring, and contingency plans are completed.
- Ensure impacted business and operational teams understand feature changes, customer or partner impacts, support requirements, and escalation paths before launch.
- Coordinate production launch, post-release stabilization, issue follow-up, partner rollout, and handover to operational and support teams.

- Stakeholder Leadership and Delivery Governance

- Serve as the central delivery coordination point for assigned complex features and maintain alignment across Product, Technology, Business, Operations, vendors, and partner teams.
- Establish fit-for-purpose governance based on feature complexity, with a focus on accountability, decisions, risk management, and blocker resolution.
- Provide concise and transparent updates on progress, milestones, dependencies, risks, decisions, required actions, and release confidence to stakeholders and leadership.
- Manage stakeholder expectations and facilitate alignment where priorities, scope, timing, capacity, or cross-team commitments require resolution.

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