Senior Technical Product Manager

Role Description

At Going, data is our core product driver and a product in its own right. Data-as-a-Service (DaaS) is the team that runs it like an internal platform business: your product is the unified stream of flight data; your customers are our internal product and feature teams, and your ultimate end-users are millions of subscribers who rely on us for timely, hyper-relevant flight deals.

We're hiring a systems-thinking Senior Technical Product Manager to lead a cross-functional team of senior Data and Backend Engineers. You'll own the charter and roadmap for how Going acquires, pipelines, and engineers high-quality datasets that power Going's core products. This requires building the resilience and diversification that reduces our dependence on any single data source, and turning that data into a product every downstream team can build on without re-solving it themselves. You’ll report to the VP of Product.

In the short term, you will:

• Take ownership of the product data acquisition strategy and data processing roadmap; supporting the parallel build of a new system to replace the current.
• Establish baseline measurement across our data funnel — coverage, pipeline health, and data quality — so future architecture and business decisions are based on value and cost.
• Drive architecture that enables efficiency — a single-record architecture that's durable and observable.
• Make data usable, not just available — You'll push toward a dynamic system that learns and adapts based on market trends and real consumer demand.
• Serve internal customers so downstream teams have one trusted source to build against.

In the long term, you will:

• Build Going's long-term data acquisition strategy — diversified, cost-efficient, and resilient to any single vendor's disruption.
• Turn our data caching and curation layer into a plug-and-play foundation that can onboard any future data source.
• Make the data platform the compounding advantage behind Going's product — the thing every team builds on, not a shared dependency people work around.

Qualifications

• You’re legally authorized to work in the United States and able to work US-hours.
• 5–8+ years of product management experience, with significant time owning data platform, data infrastructure, or data products.
• Systems & Data Fluency: Comfort reading API specs, writing SQL, working with complex JSON/XML schemas, and discussing architecture (ETL/ELT pipelines, caching strategies, data lineage and provenance, metadata management) with senior engineers as peers.
• Exposure to data quality, normalization, or golden dataset patterns.
• Experience establishing measurement baselines before re-architecting or setting targets — you diagnose before you build.
• Comfortable owning vendor/supplier relationships and contract negotiation, including cost-vs-coverage tradeoffs.
• Track record navigating ambiguity while still shipping durable, well-governed systems.
• Clear, async-first communicator — comfortable setting direction for a dedicated engineering team while working across technical and non-technical partners.

Requirements

• Travel/aviation data expertise: GDS feeds, OAG/Cirium APIs, fare buckets and cabin mapping, IATA/ICAO codes.
• Prior experience designing internal data products or operating within a Data Mesh architecture.
• Experience with event-driven architectures, low-latency edge caching, and scaling systems for real-time demand spikes.

Benefits

• The salary for this role starts at $175,000 + equity.
• 100% remote work environment.
• Annual team retreats, with past destinations including Scottsdale, Washington D.C., Vancouver, and Mexico City.
• Open vacation policy, with a 15-day minimum.
• Comprehensive health, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k) with a 5% match.
• $750/quarter remote work, wellness, and wisdom stipend.
• Up to 12 weeks of paid family leave.
• Meetup stipend when you cross paths with a co-worker.
• Continuing education & development reimbursement.
• Challenging problems to solve and an awesome team to collaborate with every single day.