Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Atlas Obscura is the world's leading guide to hidden wonders, and they are seeking a Founding Product Manager for Atlas Intelligence to build innovative data-driven products. The role involves end-to-end product ownership, from conception to execution, with a focus on leveraging data to create insights for clients in the travel industry.
Responsibilities
- Conceive the products and own them end to end — from idea to shipped feature
- Set up the data queries and model the scores and metrics at the core of each product — and be able to defend the methodology
- Engineer the front end yourself using Claude Code, with backend and data-collection support from our SVP of Engineering
- Define the metrics, visualizations, and reporting that make our products indispensable
- Translate AI-search and content data into insights that DMOs, travel brands, and our own consumers can act on
- Work with clients directly to understand needs, run demos, and turn feedback into product
- Help us go from one paying customer to several in your first six months
Skills
- A genuine data scientist's toolkit — comfort with data, probabilities, and statistical reasoning; the ability to look at a dataset, ask sharp questions, model a score, and translate the result into a product decision
- Ability to build a data-driven web product yourself — front-end development (React/TypeScript or similar), SQL query design, and score/metric modeling. You've shipped working software, not just specs
- A working understanding of how LLMs and AI search actually function, and fluency with AI build tools (Claude Code or similar)
- 3+ years of product management or equivalent ownership experience, ideally with data products or analytics platforms
- Client-facing experience — you've sat with users, run demos, gathered feedback, and turned it into product
- Self-starter energy — you're comfortable being a team of one, wearing every hat, and moving fast
- Excellent written and verbal communication
- Background in travel, hospitality, destination marketing, or media
- Experience with B2B SaaS go-to-market
- Experience with modern data visualization tools (Recharts, D3, Plotly)
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Flexible work arrangements 6 work from anywhere in the U.S.
- Equity participation in Atlas Obscura
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