Manager, Data Product Manager - Travel Core Services

About the role

The Capital One Travel team is at a pivotal moment in its growth journey, building the "brain" of its platform: a unified data ecosystem designed to power real-time, intelligent customer experiences. This role will own and execute the 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

Capital One's Product Management framework expects proficiency in five key areas:

• 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 expectation the 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 a 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.

Skills

• 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.

Pay

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salaries for this role are listed below by location. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based on 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. This role is also eligible to earn performance-based incentive compensation, which may include cash bonus(es) and/or long-term incentives (LTI).

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.