Data Product Manager - Travel Engagement & Purchases

About the Role

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.

Responsibilities

• Lead the product vision, design, schema standardization, and delivery for 1–2 core Travel data domains.
• Partner with engineering to deliver high-performing data pipelines and standardized data assets that power both human- and AI-enabled consumer experiences.
• Drive a customer-first platform roadmap by identifying, prioritizing, and unlocking key data consumer use cases across the enterprise.
• Support major data centralization initiatives with a risk-conscious, compliant approach that sets the platform up for long-term scale.
• Champion data quality, observability, and governance models through scalable platform tools and framework constructs.

Requirements

• Proven track record in building, scaling, or adopting enterprise data products, data pipelines, or platform architecture.
• Comfort navigating ambiguous problem spaces, defining clear technical strategies, and rallying cross-functional stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• A hands-on approach to platform prioritization—balancing fast, incremental value delivery for consumers while laying the technical foundation for future scale.
• Strategic clarity on where to deep-dive, when to say "not right now," and how to navigate technical trade-offs pragmatically.
• A principles-backed approach to decision-making that consistently identifies high-leverage opportunities and aligns teams around business impact.
• A strong bias for action, continuous learning, and an eagerness to tackle complex technical challenges with an open, collaborative spirit.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications

• Currently has, or is in the process of obtaining one of the following with an expectation that the required degree will be obtained on or before the scheduled start date:
  • A Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Operations Research, Analytics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Information Systems or a related quantitative field), Business or Marketing
  • OR Bachelor's degree in any field and at least 3 years of Product Management experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience translating business strategy and analysis into consumer-facing digital products.

At this time, Capital One will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below, by location. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Capital One is willing to pay at the time of this posting. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed-upon number of hours to be regularly worked.

• McLean, VA: $164,800 - $188,100
• New York, NY: $179,700 - $205,100
• Richmond, VA: $149,800 - $171,000

Candidates hired to work in other locations will be subject to the pay range associated with that location, and the actual annualized salary amount offered to any candidate at the time of hire will be reflected solely in the candidate’s offer letter.

This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI). Incentives could be discretionary or non-discretionary depending on the plan.

Benefits

Capital One offers a comprehensive, competitive, and inclusive set of health, financial, and other benefits that support your total well-being. Eligibility varies based on full or part-time status, exempt or non-exempt status, and management level.

Learn more at the Capital One Careers website.