Data Product Owner

Position: Data Product Owner - Employee Benefits
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Job Description

Job Summary

The Data Product Owner drives discovery and strategy for data products and solutions, deeply understanding customer needs. Works cross-functionally to shape product direction, influence priorities, and optimize value delivery. The Product Owner holds domain context for datasets and helps tech translate business process into deliverables. Works with the business domain owner to deliver business value.

Responsibilities

• Act as a voice of the customers - understand the business needs and translate them into technical requirements for the Employee Benefits domain.
• Ensure data quality (measuring metadata, identifying trusted sources, implementing standards)
• Align data initiatives with enterprise strategy and business needs
• Analyze business requirements and translate into data requirements
• Collaborate with SMEs to gather insights and convert into actionable recommendations
• Support development teams with data requests and specifications
• Design and implement data solutions in collaboration with architects
• Deliver BI reports, dashboards, and ad-hoc analytics tasks
• Articulate analytics propositions to stakeholders
• Estimate impact, feasibility, and ROI of analytics solutions
• Prioritize analytics use cases
• Act as a bridge between business and analytics teams, ensuring effective communication and validation of solutions
• Provide input to develop appropriate visualizations for presenting results
• Deliver solutions to businesses and coach them on usage
• Monitor and refine solutions based on performance and feedback

Required Skills and Experience

• Proficiency in data analysis tools and business intelligence techniques is essential
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, Databricks, Snowflake).
• Strong SQL/data querying skills; basic understanding of data modeling.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Experience understanding user needs / business requirements and articulating those to analytical team members, as well as translating analytics results into business insights
• Focuses on agile delivery with a "fail-fast, succeed early" mindset and measurable outcomes
• Strong communicator both verbally and written, with experience working with senior management
• Self-motivated and eager to learn business and analytics perspectives
• Flexibility to changes in work direction as the project develops according to highest-priority business needs and data and analytics limitations
• Excellent decision-making ability to manage a complex ever changing priority list and resolve conflicts to competing priorities. Experience managing competing priorities and stakeholder expectations.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, both verbal and written. Capable of collaborating effectively functional communication to technical stakeholders, technical communication to non-technical stakeholders).
• Strong problem solver. Ability to identify where focus is needed and bring clarity to business objectives,…