Principal Product Manager, Data Products & Partnerships

Flight Schedule Pro • Overland Park, KS

18h • $180,000 - $200,000

About The Position

Pilotbase is building the data layer that connects flight schools, student pilots, financing partners, and employers — and our partner integrations are at the commercial center of that vision.
This is a high-ownership role on our most commercially critical initiative. We're looking for someone who has done this before - at an analytics-as-a-service company, an embedded analytics platform, or anywhere that required making complex data legible and valuable to external partners at scale — and who brings both technical depth and partner-facing polish. The person who thrives here connects dots across conversations, builds credibility with partners and internal stakeholders alike, keeps all the threads together, and translates it into clear and compelling product vision for the engineering team.

Requirements

• Experience building and owning API/platform integrations at scale — you've thought about how to make partner integrations scalable, not just functional
• Strong consumer product instincts — you think about the user experience of data, not just the data itself
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize under constraint — you've managed a scope where everything felt urgent, made hard calls about sequencing, and owned the outcome of those decisions without waiting for direction from above
• Track record working with external partners as the product voice — you can hold a complex partner relationship and a technical architecture conversation in the same day
• Technically fluent enough to work directly with data engineers — you don't need to write the code, but you need to understand what's hard and why
• Manages complex scope without dropping threads — you can hold multiple active workstreams, know which partner conversation informs which engineering priority, and synthesize it all into clear direction for your team
• Builds internal credibility as fluently as external — you earn trust with engineering leads, cross-functional partners, and senior stakeholders through clarity and follow-through, not just relationship-building
• Understands what good data products feel like — you have taste, not just technical knowledge; you know the difference between a dashboard and an insight
• Proactive communicator — you surface problems before they become crises, not after; you don't go quiet when things get complicated
• AI-first in your approach — you reach for AI tools to accelerate your work, prototype faster, and build smarter
• Partner-facing and polished — you can walk into a high-stakes external conversation and represent us credibly without a script

Nice To Haves

• Background in analytics-as-a-service, embedded analytics, or data product companies — Looker, Sigma, Thoughtspot, Amplitude, Mixpanel, or similar
• Experience in regulated industries where data accuracy is a compliance matter, not just a quality preference
• Familiarity with aviation, flight training, or adjacent industries

Responsibilities

• Partner Onboarding & Integrations
• Own the product relationship with external partners — financing partners, aviation employers, and those to come
• Drive partner onboarding end-to-end, from integration scoping through launch
• Be the product voice in partner conversations — able to represent our roadmap, our data, and our constraints credibly
• Ensure data integrity across our integration layer — define standards, work directly with data engineers to maintain accuracy, and build a proactive posture so issues are caught before partners feel them.
• Partner Dashboard & Data Products
• Own the partner-facing data dashboard and define what it needs to become
• Translate partner needs into product requirements that the engineering team can execute
• Think beyond dashboards: what data products create real value for partners in their core workflows — evaluation, monitoring, decision-making?
• Bring an AI-first lens to how we surface and present data — not just visualizations, but intelligent, actionable insight
• In-Product Adoption & Feature Instrumentation
• Drive adoption of the in-product features that create high-quality data for our partner integrations
• Work with school-facing teams to close the loop between what schools do in FSP and what partners see in their dashboard
• Define what good data looks like from a school, and build the product experiences that make it easy to produce
• Integration Architecture
• Make integration architecture decisions that scale — if we build it this way for partner one, does it work for partners two through ten?
• Partner with engineering on API design, webhook patterns, and integration infrastructure
• Own the tradeoff between bespoke partner needs and scalable platform patterns

Benefits

• Full benefits package (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short-Term Disability, Life Insurance, 401(k) plan)
• Equity Appreciation Plan
• Flexible Time Off policy
• Seven (7) company-wide paid holidays + two (2) floating holidays
• Two (2) wellness days
• Employee Assistance Program
• Professional Development Stipend
• Home Office Stipend

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees