Product Manager – Travel

Jobtailor; Addison (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a senior product analytics professional to own features from concept through launch, translating customer pain points into concrete analytics products.

You'll collaborate across product, engineering, and marketing to define roadmaps, enforce data quality, and measure post-launch impact, while building dashboards in Looker, Tableau, or Power BI to drive adoption and value for travel data workflows.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience).
• 6–10 years of experience in product, analytics, or data-quality roles.
• Proven track record of shipping customer-facing analytics and reporting products.
• Deep familiarity with corporate travel and T&E data workflows, including GDS, OBT, and TMC data flows, GL mapping, rate/tax handling, and PNR nuances.
• Experience defining and enforcing a clear Definition of Done.
• Working SQL and BI literacy with Looker, Tableau, or Power BI.
• Advanced Excel fluency and Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Ability to craft product requirements, acceptance criteria, bug/issue reports, and buyer-centric UAT scripts.

Responsibilities

• Own features across the entire lifecycle from concept through launch
• Collaborate on business cases, product vision, strategy, and roadmap planning
• Translate customer pain points into product specifications, persona-based user stories, and UAT scripts
• Manage prioritized feature backlogs and bug processes
• Enforce release acceptance and validate data integrity using defined guardrails
• Partner with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and Technical Writing
• Prioritize automated regression tests, data contracts, and system monitoring
• Define metric specifications, variance bands, freshness SLAs, and data-quality thresholds
• Identify product success metrics and track post-launch performance
• Communicate project status, milestones, and timelines to stakeholders
• Publish customer-grade documentation, metric definitions, data lineage, caveats, and release notes
• Test and refine features post-release to drive adoption and platform value

Skills

SQL and BI literacy

Advanced Excel

BI tools proficiency

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Microsoft Office

Job description

• Own features across the entire lifecycle from concept through launch
• Collaborate on business cases, product vision, strategy, and roadmap planning
• Translate customer pain points into product specifications, persona-based user stories, and UAT scripts
• Manage prioritized feature backlogs and bug processes
• Enforce release acceptance and validate data integrity using defined guardrails
• Partner with Product Marketing, Customer Success, Engineering, and Technical Writing
• Prioritize automated regression tests, data contracts, and system monitoring
• Define metric specifications, variance bands, freshness SLAs, and data-quality thresholds
• Identify product success metrics and track post-launch performance
• Communicate project status, milestones, and timelines to stakeholders
• Publish customer-grade documentation, metric definitions, data lineage, caveats, and release notes
• Test and refine features post-release to drive adoption and platform value

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Marketing, Economics, Statistics, Business, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
• 6–10 years of experience in product, analytics, or data-quality roles
• Proven track record of shipping customer-facing analytics and reporting products
• Deep familiarity with corporate travel and T&E data workflows, including GDS, OBT, and TMC data flows, GL mapping, rate/tax handling, and PNR nuances
• Experience defining and enforcing a clear Definition of Done
• Working SQL and BI literacy with Looker, Tableau, or Power BI
• Advanced Excel fluency and Microsoft Office proficiency
• Ability to craft product requirements, acceptance criteria, bug/issue reports, and buyer-centric UAT scripts
• Strong customer empathy and ability to separate signal from noise
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively, managing multiple complex projects
• Understanding of modern team productivity tools, techniques, and cross-functional processes
• No sponsorship available now or in the future

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in managing the product lifecycle, from concept to launch, with a strong focus on customer-facing analytics and data quality. Proficient in defining product specifications, acceptance criteria, and success metrics while ensuring effective communication and collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Lifecycle Management
• Customer-Facing Analytics
• SQL and BI Literacy
• Advanced Excel Fluency
• Corporate Travel Data Workflows

Hard Skills

• Product Specifications
• User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
• Feature Backlog Management
• Data Quality Thresholds
• Metric Definitions

Soft Skills

• Customer Empathy
• Verbal Communication
• Written Communication
• Autonomous Work
• Collaborative Project Management

Industry Keywords

• GDS
• OBT
• TMC Data Flows
• GL Mapping
• Rate/Tax Handling

Tools & Technologies

• Looker
• Tableau
• Power BI
• Microsoft Office
• Modern Team Productivity Tools