The Opportunity Hyatt seeks a motivated and results-driven Data and AI Product Manager who is passionate about data and AI to help us build and scale the next generation of enterprise data, analytics and AI-powered products. The Product Manager is responsible for defining product vision(s) and guiding the creation of world-class products, democratizing access, accelerating algorithmically powered processes, and fostering data-driven decision making across complex business domains.
The Product Manager will partner closely with business leaders and technical teams to enhance and scale Hyatt's trusted, governed, and auditable Feasibility Product that helps Development and Finance teams evaluate hotel opportunities through financial modeling, market intelligence, and AI-assisted insights. This role will own product enhancements, rapidly prototype ideas using AI-assisted coding tools, and collaborate with the broader End-to-End program to align user journeys, integrations, priorities, and outcomes. You will be part of a team that is passionate about our purpose, committed to nurturing curiosity and new skills, and building connections across the organization with colleagues, customers, and guests.
Who You Are As our ideal candidate, you understand the power and purpose of our culture of care, and embody our core values of Empathy, Inclusion, Integrity, Experimentation, Respect, and Wellbeing. You enjoy working with others, are results-driven, and are looking for a variety of opportunities to develop personally and professionally.
The Role In this role, you'll define and guide the development of business-critical, scalable, and robust the Feasibility Product that helps Finance and Development teams make informed decisions faster. This is a hands-on product role: you will use AI-assisted development tools to independently build and iterate on working product prototypes, validate ideas with users, and translate successful concepts into engineering-ready requirements. You will guide product research, define user journeys, and prioritize financial modeling, market intelligence, and AI-enabled enhancements, and guide Hyatt's agile development and product roll-out processes. You will be part of a global data and AI community and will work in cross-functional and agile project teams alongside business stakeholders, Data Engineers, Data Stewards, Data Scientists, Machine Learning Engineers, Application teams, UX Designers and Researchers, Governance partners, and executives to deliver highly trusted products used globally.
Responsibilities - Drive the vision, roadmap, and direction for Hyatt's Data and AI Products aligned with Hyatt's business priorities
- Lead product discovery, planning, scoping, and prioritization
- Develop a deep understanding of Development, Feasibility, and Development Finance personas, financial workflows, and end-to-end user journeys through research, usage data, and continuous feedback
- Independently build and iterate on functional product prototypes using AI-assisted development tools, demonstrate concepts to stakeholders, incorporate feedback, and use prototypes to accelerate product discovery and engineering delivery
- Gather requirements, determine features and their priority, write product specs, refine feedback, help write test plans, manage backlog, and ship products quickly
- Define and prioritize the data-source onboarding roadmap based on user value, source readiness, ownership, governance, access requirements, and expected impact
- Ensure data quality, definition, monitoring, alerts, and recourse is built into roadmap plans and engineering requirements
- Ensure product and AI requirements follow Hyatt policies, security and privacy standards, role-based access controls, responsible AI principles, and corresponding contracts before being passed to developers
- Define and ensure products meet business SLAs
- Gain an intimate understanding of the current methods of building and delivering data and AI pipelines into Hyatt's data and AI Platforms and define how this should work in the future
- Represent the team with partners and senior company leaders to align resources and prioritization
- Promote enterprise-wide adoption of data and AI Products
- Educate teams on data and AI Products and use cases
- Demonstrate a commitment to Hyatt core values
