Data & AI Product Manager

Description:

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 We Are

At Hyatt, we believe in the power of belonging and creating a culture of care, where our colleagues become family. Since 1957, our colleagues and our guests have been at the heart of our business and helped Hyatt become one of the best and fastest-growing hospitality brands in the world. Our transformative growth and the addition of new hotels, brands, and business lines canopen the door for exciting career and growth opportunities for our colleagues.

As we continue to grow, we never lose sight of what’s most important: People. We turn trips into journeys, encounters into experiences, and jobs into careers.

Why Now?

This is an exciting time to be at Hyatt. We are growing rapidly and are looking for passionate changemakers to be a part of our journey. The hospitality industry is resilient and continues to offer dynamic opportunities for upward mobility, and Hyatt is no exception.

How We Care for Our People

What sets us apart is our purpose—to care for people so they can be their best. Every business decision is made through the lens of our purpose, and it informs how we have and will continue to support each other as members of the Hyatt family.Our care for our colleagues is the key to our success. We’re proud to have earned a place on Fortune’s prestigious 100 Best Companies to Work For® list since 2013. This recognition is a testament to the tremendous way our Hyatt family continues to come together to care for one another, our commitment to a culture of inclusivity, empathy, and respect, and making sure everyone feels like they belong.

We’re proud to offer exceptional corporate benefits which include:

• Annual allotment of free hotel stays at Hyatt hotels globally

• Flexible work schedule

• Work-life benefits including wellbeing initiatives such as a complimentary Headspace subscription, and a discount at the on-site fitness center

• A global family assistance policy with paid time off following the birth or adoption of a child as well as financial assistance for adoption

• Paid Time Off, Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K with company match

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

Qualifications:

Qualifications

Strong product management experience, understanding of financial modeling and investment workflows, and demonstrated hands-on AI-assisted prototyping skills are important to this role.

• The ideal candidate demonstrates a commitment to Hyatt core values: respect, integrity, humility, empathy, creativity, and fun.

• A bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical discipline, or equivalent work experience

• Preferred: master’s degree in business (MBA), Computer Science, Engineering Management, or related field

• 3 years of hands-on experience in guiding the strategy and lifecycle of data and AI products and its underlying data to ensure it collectively achieves business objectives, leveraging or managing data and AI products to drive business value with a proven track record of success

• 2 years of product experience with financial modeling, feasibility analysis, scenario planning, or related decision-support products

• Demonstrated understanding of financial modeling concepts, including pro formas, hotel performance drivers, assumptions, sensitivity analysis, and scenario planning

• Proven hands-on experience using AI-assisted development tools to independently create working interactive prototypes or lightweight applications; ability to demonstrate examples of prototypes built and iterated based on user feedback

• Proven ability to navigate difficult situations with competing stakeholder needs and across multiple audiences, including individual contributors, managers, and executives

• Excellent organization, communication, and presentation and stakeholder-management skills

• Practical experience with AI coding assistants or app-building tools (such as Cursor, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, or similar), including prompting, debugging, iterating on UI and application logic, and testing prototype functionality

• Ability to work with financial and operational data; familiarity with SQL and cloud data platforms is a plus

• Working knowledge of agile methodologies and SCRUM

The position responsibilities outlined above are in no way to be construed as all-encompassing. Other duties, responsibilities, and qualifications may be required and/or assigned as necessary.

We welcome you:

Research shows that individuals tend to apply to jobs only if they meet all the listed job qualifications. Unsure if you check every box, but feeling inspired to enhance your career? Apply. We’d love to consider your unique experiences and how you could make Hyatt even better.

The salary range for this position is $109,300 - $142,000

The final pay rate/salary offered to the successful candidate will depend on experience, skill level and other qualifications for the role, as well as the location of the performance of work. Pay for the successful candidate will meet local requirements, including the local minimum wage rate.

We value our relationships with recruitment partners and require that agencies contact us first before submitting any candidates. Hyatt will not be responsible for any fees and obligations associated with unsolicited submissions unless a formal agreement is in place.

Primary Location: US-IL-Chicago

Organization: Hyatt Corporate Office

Pay Basis: Yearly

Job Level: Full-time

Job: Technology

Req ID: CHI015746

Hyatt is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, religion, disability, veteran status, genetic information, citizenship status or any other group protected by law.