Senior Product Manager

Overview

Breeze Airways is looking for a Senior Product Manager to help build and improve internal tools that support a fast-growing airline operation. This role sits at the intersection of frontline operations, technology teams, and senior leadership, and is responsible for guiding highly complex, mission-critical products with a high level of independence.

The position supports Breeze’s mission to make travel simple, affordable, and convenient by improving guest experience through technology, smart decision-making, and thoughtful service. In this role, you will help shape product direction for operational capabilities that improve safety, reliability, efficiency, and on-time performance.

You will work closely with engineering, digital design, and operational stakeholders to identify opportunities, define product strategy, prioritize work, and deliver practical solutions that help teams operate more consistently and recover faster when disruptions occur.

As a senior member of the product organization, you will also act as a key collaborator across Airline Operations, Guest Experience, Information Systems, Marketing, Revenue Management, and other teams, while following Breeze Aviation Group values of Safety, Kindness, Integrity, Ingenuity, and Excellence.

What You Will Do

• Spot operational problems that can be improved through digital tools, with a strong focus on the needs of frontline teams.
• Create and maintain a long-range strategy for the assigned operational products.
• Build and manage a value-driven, prioritized product backlog aligned to the company’s business goals, including data-backed business cases and models.
• Look for opportunities to use automation, analytics, and emerging AI capabilities to reduce manual work, strengthen decisions, and scale operations without compromising safety or reliability.
• Use product discovery methods to move concepts into prototypes and validate ideas through user research and experimentation.
• Collect insights from both qualitative and quantitative research, including visits to the operations control center, airports, and flights.
• Use operational performance data, system usage data, incident and disruption information, and industry research to guide prioritization and solution design.
• Stay informed about airline operations, aviation technology, best practices, and competitor capabilities.
• Monitor third-party solution options and handle vendor evaluation, contract negotiation, and relationship management.
• Plan and prioritize experiments, prototypes, and iterative validation to improve operational outcomes.
• Work with the engineering manager to deliver the product backlog and move work through delivery.
• Own the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Use story mapping to shape release planning, favoring incremental releases and continuous improvement.
• Ensure measurement and monitoring are in place so product health and operational performance can be tracked over time.
• Coordinate across product leadership to identify dependencies, understand business impact, and support broader company goals.
• Work with stakeholders across the business to support rollout and adoption of new products and changes.
• Make difficult prioritization and tradeoff decisions using data when available and sound judgment when it is not.
• Communicate clearly with senior leaders and other stakeholders, including when delivering difficult messages.
• Provide around-the-clock support during outages or emergencies as needed.
• Deliver outcomes that meet the intended business goals.

What You Need

• A bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Aviation Management, or a related discipline, or at least 4 additional years of relevant experience in lieu of a degree.
• At least 6 years of digital product management experience supporting complex operational or real-time systems.
• Substantial experience building mission-critical features and applications.
• Strong Agile product management and planning capability, including experience managing dependencies across multiple products at scale.
• Hands-on experience with data, monitoring, and operational analytics.
• Ability to perform well under pressure, prioritize effectively, meet deadlines, and stay flexible.
• Strong organization, attention to detail, and time management skills.
• Ability to complete projects on schedule with minimal supervision and work varied hours when needed to meet deadlines.

Preferred Background

• Additional training or certification in Agile methodology or product management.
• Experience in aviation or travel.
• Familiarity with airline operational systems such as Crew Management, Operations Control Center (OCC/IOC), Flight Operations and Dispatch, and Airport/Ground Operations.
• An advanced degree such as an MBA or master’s degree.

Skills

Agile product management, product discovery, roadmap planning, backlog prioritization, operational analytics, data-driven decision-making, user research, stakeholder management, cross-functional collaboration, product delivery, vendor management, communication, problem-solving, and planning.

Perks

• Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
• Health Savings Account with company match.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Paid time off.
• Travel benefits on Breeze and other airlines.

Additional Information

Breeze Airways is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, genetics, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local law. This applies to recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leave, compensation, and training.

The company will never ask for your Social Security Number, driver’s license number, or date of birth in a job posting. Any posting requesting that information should be treated as fraudulent.