Associate Director, Data Product Management

Associate Director, Data Product Management### Associate Director, Data Product Management Apply:
Boston:
Full time:
Posted Yesterday:
R09016##
** Ready to help us transform healthcare? Bring your true colors to blue.
**** What We Need
** The Associate Director of Data Product Management will lead a team of product owners and data analysts, driving the strategy and execution of enterprise data products. This leader will be responsible for maturing the  data-as-a-product  mindset, ensuring that data assets are treated as valuable, reusable, and trusted products that power business decisions, analytics, and AI applications, including Data AI agents.

This role will play a crucial part in our  Data for AI  and  AI for Data  strategy, ensuring we have reliable data to fuel AI innovation while leveraging AI to enhance our data management capabilities. In this highly visible role, the leader will collaborate with business partners, engineering teams, and data governance to define, prioritize, and deliver a roadmap of data capabilities.

The Associate Director will be an expert in all facets of data product management, from defining business value and establishing quality SLAs to managing the entire product lifecycle and driving adoption across the user community.  This role is eligible for our Flex Persona. For candidates local to our Boston, MA and Hingham MA offices.
** Your Day to Day
** Strategy & Vision:
* Lead and oversee the development and delivery of data products using product management principles and an agile framework.
* Drive the Data Product Management team's strategy and vision, aligning the data product roadmap with enterprise goals and staying current with market trends and customer needs.
* Define and execute the product strategy for advanced data capabilities, including AI-driven data products and AI data agent as a data product.
* Evangelize the value of data products to drive adoption and a data-driven culture across the business and user communities.

Team Leadership & Management:
* Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Product Owners, including those focused on user support and communications.
* Manage and mentor junior data product owners to adopt agile processes for building and delivering high-quality data products.
* Serve as the owner and escalation point for the data product management team, resolving blockers and addressing issues promptly.

Product Lifecycle & Delivery:
* Drive product vision, identification of business value, product road-mapping, and delivery of data products for all applications and platforms.
* Establish and enforce a prioritization framework for data and it’s AI initiatives based on business value, feasibility, reusability, and compliance risk.
* Define clear entry/exit criteria for data products, ensuring they have recurring business value, designated ownership, and meet enterprise-ready standards for quality, lineage, and documentation.
* Manage the team backlog, define epics and user stories, and ensure visibility to business partners and leadership.
** We’re Looking for*
* * Minimum 8 years of progressive work experience in data management, product management, or a related field, with a focus on data, digital, or API products.
* Minimum 4 years of experience leading and mentoring teams of product managers, product owners, or analysts.
* Experience in executive translation & business acumen in proving ability to synthesize complex operational concepts into high-impact business insights, collaborating directly with senior leadership to drive strategic alignment and decision-making.
* Proven experience in designing, developing, and managing products through all phases of the lifecycle, from ideation to decommissioning.
* Expertise in agile delivery frameworks and…