Sr. Product Manager

Position

Purpose:

The Senior Data Product Manager is responsible for defining, developing, and delivering enterprise data products that enable data-driven decision-making, operational efficiency, and measurable business outcomes. This role owns the end-to-end data product lifecycle, including product strategy, roadmap development, requirements definition, prioritization, delivery execution, adoption, and continuous improvement.

This role requires a strong understanding of modern data platforms, data architecture concepts, data modeling, analytics workflows, and data governance practices. The Data Product Manager will leverage analytical skills, including SQL and data analysis techniques, to validate data quality, measure product performance, identify opportunities for optimization, and ensure data products deliver trusted insights and business value.

This role is responsible for establishing and maintaining comprehensive product documentation, including product vision and strategy, roadmaps, user stories, business and technical requirements, data definitions, acceptance criteria, process flows, data quality expectations, release documentation, and product operating models. The Product Manager ensures documentation is accurate, accessible, and maintained throughout the product lifecycle to support transparency, adoption, governance, and long-term sustainability of enterprise data products.

• 50% Strategy & Planning:
• Seeks to empathize with and understand the end user deeply and use that knowledge to determine the fastest path to deliver value
• Translates business goals and end user needs into product strategy; communicates direction and product priorities to the development team, other matrixed teams, and third-party partners
• Identifies goals, metrics and analytics to determine product value; continually makes recommendations and refinements to the product backlog based on learnings
• Manages and grooms the product backlog; makes future decisions based on the value that will be delivered
• Partners with Finance to understand financial needs and assist in the creation of business plans for new opportunities
• Monitors research as well as the competitive landscape to recommend the best solutions and ensure that products remain or become best in class
• Ensures that product directions balance both the user needs and business goals of driving sales, improving efficiency and enhancing customer satisfaction
• 20% Delivery & Execution:
• Formulates, tests and refines assumptions and hypotheses through user research and testing
• Documents, reviews and ensures that all quality and change control standards are met
• Creates, prioritizes and accepts user stories; incorporate them into release planning
• Makes product decisions that drive value on a daily basis
• Identifies and considers pros, cons, issues, obstacles, dependencies and value associated with features and enhancements
• Participates in standups, iteration planning sessions, product demo, and retrospectives
• Condenses complex technical concepts into non-technical language for stakeholders
• 30% People:
• Fosters collaboration with team members (Engineering, UX, etc.) to drive value and identify and resolve impediments
• Acts as a proponent of modern software development practices
• Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the product, empathizing with and understanding user needs
• Works with the product team to continuously assess progress, disseminate lessons learned, and understand next steps
• Manages cross functional team and stakeholder expectations to execute on product strategy and provides education to requestors to determine prioritization based on tangible benefits and/or user experience
• Guides more junior team members in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution tasks
• Participates in and contributes to learning activities around modern software design and development core practices (communities of practice)
• Participates in talent acquisition, development and retention activities in support of team

• Typically reports to the Product Management Manager or Sr. Manager.

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be…