Principal Product Manager - AI Travel (100% Remote - Ireland)

📋 Description

• • As Principal Product Manager for AI Travel at Hopper Inc., you will own the intelligence and reconciliation backbone of Hopper Technology Solutions (HTS), shaping the financial truth and pricing integrity across Flights, Hotels, Cars, and Ancillaries for millions of travel transactions globally. This foundational role sits at the critical intersection of marketplace economics, machine learning, and financial systems, where your work directly impacts partner economics, supplier transparency, and the scalability of HTS as a global commerce platform powering major brands like Capital One, Air Canada, and Nubank.
• • Your day-to-day will involve owning the end-to-end strategy and roadmap for pricing intelligence, supplier performance intelligence, and financial reconciliation across all travel verticals; architecting and evolving reference pricing systems using predictive modeling, elasticity signals, competitive benchmarking, and real-time anomaly detection; building the supplier intelligence layer by transforming transactional data into automated performance signals, demand insights, and pricing diagnostics; establishing and governing the canonical source of truth for revenue, margin, take rate, transactions, and cancellations across systems and partners; designing model evaluation, monitoring, and feedback frameworks including drift detection and continuous improvement mechanisms; implementing automated reconciliation and anomaly detection systems to proactively surface financial inconsistencies at scale; and driving cross-functional execution across Engineering, Data Science, Finance, Commercial, and Supply teams to deliver production-grade, model-integrated infrastructure.
• • You will join a small, dynamic, and entrepreneurial team at Hopper, a well-funded, proven startup with large ambitions that has become the #3 largest online travel agency in North America and powers over $1 trillion in travel ecommerce opportunity. Through HTS, Hopper powers B2B travel fintech and commerce solutions for global brands, with over 75% of its business now coming from this division. The company culture emphasizes open communication with leadership, pushing limits, taking risks, and making massive impact despite small team sizes — all while operating 100% remotely from Ireland.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in AI-native product management, model lifecycle governance, and financial systems design while gaining hands-on experience with LLMs, predictive analytics, and large-scale transactional data. You will have the opportunity to ship model-driven pricing and reconciliation systems at scale, influence global partner economics, and contribute to a platform serving hundreds of millions of travelers — all while working with cutting-edge fintech products like Cancel for Any Reason and Flight Disruption Assistance that drive strong customer satisfaction and repurchase rates.