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.