[Remote] Principal Product Manager - AI Travel (100% Remote - USA)

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Hopper is a leading travel platform on a mission to empower travelers globally through advanced machine learning and fintech solutions. They are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead the development of pricing intelligence and reconciliation systems across various travel verticals, ensuring the integrity of financial flows and supplier performance reporting.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for pricing intelligence, supplier performance intelligence, and financial reconciliation across all travel verticals
• Architect and evolve reference pricing systems leveraging predictive modeling, elasticity signals, competitive benchmarking, and real-time anomaly detection
• Build the supplier intelligence layer, transforming transactional data into automated performance signals, demand insights, and pricing diagnostics
• Establish and govern the canonical source of truth for revenue, margin, take rate, transactions, and cancellations across systems and partners
• Design model evaluation, monitoring, and feedback frameworks, including drift detection and continuous improvement mechanisms
• Implement automated reconciliation and anomaly detection systems to proactively surface financial inconsistencies at scale
• Drive cross-functional execution across Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Commercial, and Supply to deliver production-grade, model-integrated infrastructure

Skills

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, including ownership of AI-native products and model-driven systems in production. You have built and scaled systems where AI is foundational to product behavior — not an additive feature
• Hands-on experience writing prompts, designing evaluation harnesses, or prototyping with LLMs/foundation models as part of their PM workflow (not just overseeing others doing it)
• Strong fluency working independently with SQL and large-scale transactional datasets
• Demonstrated experience operating as an AI-native PM, with hands-on ownership of model lifecycle management including problem framing, signal design, evaluation metrics (e.g., precision/recall tradeoffs, forecasting accuracy), monitoring frameworks, drift detection, and retraining strategies
• Experience shipping predictive systems, anomaly detection platforms, automated decisioning infrastructure, or model-driven pricing systems at scale
• Experience owning pricing systems, financial reporting platforms, marketplace intelligence tools, or reconciliation frameworks
• Deep understanding of marketplace economics, revenue mechanics, and pricing strategy
• Track record of delivering complex, cross-functional systems with measurable business impact
• Exceptional communicator able to operate effectively across technical, financial, and commercial stakeholders
• Prior experience in Data Science, Engineering, or a highly technical role
• Background in travel commerce, fintech, ads, or other transaction-heavy marketplace environments

Benefits

• Well-funded and proven startup with large ambitions, competitive salary and the upsides of pre-IPO equity packages.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Carrot Cash travel stipend.
• Access to co-working space on demand through FlexDesk AND Work-from-home stipend.
• Please ask us about our very generous parental leave, much above industry standards!.
• Entrepreneurial culture where pushing limits and taking risks is everyday business.
• Open communication with management and company leadership.
• Small, dynamic teams = massive impact.
• 100% employer paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage for employees.
• Access to Disability & Life insurance.
• Health Reimbursement Account (HRA).
• DCA/ FSA and access to 401k plan.

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