Manager, Data Product Manager - Travel Core Services

Manager, Data Product Manager - Travel Core Services

Manager, Product Management (PXDP50)

The Capital One Travel team is at a pivotal moment in our growth journey. We are building the "brain" of our platform: a unified data ecosystem designed to power real-time, intelligent customer experiences. Data is the ultimate fuel for scaling Capital One Travel to its full potential, and we are expanding our Data Products team to build the foundational architecture that will drive our next phase of innovation.

We are looking for a driven product leader to own and execute our Data Product Strategy—specifically managing the standardization, scaling, and activation of Travel Engagement & Payments data.

What You’ll Drive

• Data Domain Strategy: Lead the product vision, design, schema standardization, and delivery for 1–2 core Travel data domains.

• AI & Consumer Activation: Partner with engineering to deliver high-performing data pipelines and standardized data assets that power both human- and AI-enabled consumer experiences.

• Outcome-Based Roadmaps: Drive a customer-first platform roadmap by identifying, prioritizing, and unlocking key data consumer use cases across the enterprise.

• Scalable Centralization & Risk Management: Support major data centralization initiatives with a risk-conscious, compliant approach that sets the platform up for long-term scale.

• Data Governance & Quality: Champion data quality, observability, and governance models through scalable platform tools and framework constructs.

What We Are Looking For

• Data Products Expertise: Proven track record in building, scaling, or adopting enterprise data products, data pipelines, or platform architecture.

• Strategic Leadership: Comfort navigating ambiguous problem spaces, defining clear technical strategies, and rallying cross-functional stakeholders around shared outcomes.

• Scalable Value Orientation: A hands-on approach to platform prioritization—balancing fast, incremental value delivery for consumers while laying the technical foundation for future scale.

• Strong Product Judgment: Strategic clarity on where to deep-dive, when to say "not right now," and how to navigate technical trade-offs pragmatically.

• Outcome Orientation: A principles-backed approach to decision-making that consistently identifies high-leverage opportunities and aligns teams around business impact.

• Growth Mindset: A strong bias for action, continuous learning, and an eagerness to tackle complex technical challenges with an open, collaborative spirit.

Product Management at Capital One is a booming, vibrant craft that requires reimagining the status quo, finding value creation opportunities, and driving innovative and sustainable customer experiences through technology. We believe our portfolio of businesses and investments in growth and transformation will result in a company with the scale, brand, capabilities, talent, and values to succeed as the digital revolution transforms our society and our industry.

Capital One Product Framework

In this role, you’ll be expected to demonstrate proficiency in five key areas which we consider to be the foundation for successful Product Management:

• Human Centered - Obsesses about internal and external customer needs to reimagine and innovate product solutions

• Business Focused - Delivers game-changing outcomes by focusing on leverage and execution excellence

• Technology Driven - Leverages technology to deliver innovative and resilient solutions that enable both near term and long term value

• Integrated Problem Solving - Identifies and resolves complex problems to deliver outcomes while mitigating product risks 

• Transformational Leadership - Leads cross functional teams to solve customer problems and drive organizational alignment

Basic Qualifications:

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an exp