Senior Technical Product Manager

About the role

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

What you know

Required:

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

Preferred:

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

& Perks you’ll love…

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

We want you to bring your authentic self to work every single day.

We accept you for who you are and consider everyone on an equal opportunity basis without regard to ancestry; age; appearance; color; gender identity and/or expression; genetics; family or parental status; marital, civil union, or domestic partnership status; mental, physical, or sensory disability; national, social or ethnic origin; past or present military service; sexual orientation; socioeconomic status; race; religion or belief; hair length; organ donor status. Going is an E-Verify employer.

‍If you require a reasonable accommodation or assistance for any part of the interview and employment process, please contact us at [email protected] and let us know the nature of your request.