Business Product Manager Data Exchange; Data Service

Business Product Manager
- Data Exchange (Data as a Service)

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations. Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects.

Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

Role: Business Product Manager
- Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service

Location: Hybrid in Cottage Grove, MN, 3 days onsite

Contract Duration: ASAP - 12/31/2026; extension or conversion likely

Rate: $65-$70/hour W2 depending on skills and qualifications

Travel: Minimal, less than 10%

We are seeking a Business Product Manager to help build a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability from the ground up. This person will own the product strategy, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, stakeholder discovery, and delivery coordination for secure, governed data-sharing solutions across business and technology teams. This is not a traditional reporting, dashboard, or analytics product role. The focus is on enabling business partners to access and consume trusted data through scalable integration patterns, APIs, data pipelines, and governed data-sharing capabilities.

The ideal candidate is a strong product leader who can operate in ambiguity, influence without authority, work directly with business stakeholders to uncover real needs, and partner closely with architecture, engineering, security, legal, application, data, and platform teams to move work forward.

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand objectives, pain points, data access needs, integration requirements, and emerging AI/data use cases.
• Translate unclear or broad business requests into well-defined problems, outcomes, priorities, epics, features, and actionable requirements.
• Own backlog prioritization based on business value, scalability, dependencies, security, risk, and alignment to broader enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with solution architecture and technical teams to evaluate API strategies, integration patterns, data movement approaches, middleware needs, event-driven concepts, and reusable data access models.
• Coordinate delivery across cross-functional teams, including engineering, data, application owners, integration teams, security, legal, platform teams, business analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the central point of accountability for what is being built, why it matters, when it will be delivered, and how it meets business needs.
• Facilitate delivery activities such as intake, backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization discussions, stakeholder demos, roadmap reviews, and dependency management.
• Ensure solutions are secure, governed, scalable, reusable, and aligned with enterprise data architecture.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to both business and technical audiences.
• Build credibility quickly with stakeholders of varying technical maturity and push back diplomatically when requests are not aligned to business value or timing.

• 5+ years of experience in product management, business product management, data product ownership, or technology product roles.
• Proven experience owning product roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, discovery, and delivery coordination.
• Strong understanding of data ecosystems, data movement, integrations, APIs, data pipelines, middleware, and system-to-system data sharing.
• Ability to work closely with solution architects and technical teams without needing to be hands-on engineering.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to uncover needs, define outcomes, and translate business problems into actionable product work.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Experience coordinating work across business, data, engineering, application, security,…