Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Scott's Cheap Flights, operating as Going, provides flight deals to millions of subscribers and is hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead its Data-as-a-Service product. The role owns the strategy and roadmap for acquiring, processing, governing, and delivering high-quality flight data while leading a cross-functional team and serving internal product teams.
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
Skills
- 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
- 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
- Prior experience designing internal data products or operating in a data mesh model
- Experience with event-driven architectures, low-latency edge caching, and scaling systems for real-time demand spikes
Benefits
- 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
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