SVP, Data Governance & Standards Product Manager

Citi Services is a global provider of cash management and trade finance services to corporate, public sector and financial institutions. With a presence in 98 countries, Citi Services uniquely qualifies to serve clients with local and cross‑border interests.

As Citi pivots to sustained growth across all business lines, the Data and Analytics team in Services owns the data and analytics product, manages the data, analytics vision and roadmap, and product‑manages the Agile delivery of data, insight, and solution across data scientists and engineering.

• Execute Citi’s Data Transformation strategy across all products, ensuring that data standards are defined and implemented globally to enable consistent processes for acquiring, persisting, and delivering data.
• Create and maintain a product vision aligned to business priorities, key user needs, and organizational OKRs.
• Own and prioritize the long‑term Data Standards roadmap to deliver on business outcomes, working closely with a cross‑functional team to ensure that all the right resources are aligned.
• Implement the Services Producer / Consumer data strategy model and support underlying data management processes – data process mapping, lineage, and data cataloging.
• Act as product owner / manager for critical data foundation, lineage, quality, discovery, and data work to satisfy regulatory requirements.
• Work with product and data consumer stakeholders and other business areas to capture requirements for data and use cases.
• Design and deploy datasets that can be leveraged as the single source of truth for all reporting and analytics for regulators, business stakeholders, and client use cases.
• Understand technological solutions for building Canonical Data Models (CDM) and big data solutions.
• Define the change and lifecycle management of Data Standards, identify ways to automate workflow for review and approval.
• Partner to define the tooling strategy for Data Standards definition and lifecycle management, enabling codification of Data Standards to be consumed by other systems.
• Understand how Data Standards and data models fit into the larger ecosystem, anticipating impacts from changes in other parts of the business.
• Work cross‑functionally with data producing platforms and Agile SCRUMs of data scientists and engineers for delivery.
• Continually, succinctly, and clearly communicate progress and results against the data/analytics agenda to stakeholders across the organization.
• Investigate and leverage best practices from other organizations or industry forums.

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Finance, Math, Operations Research, Engineering, Science, or related fields;
  Master’s is a plus.
• 8+ years of related experience.
• Experience working as a product manager or product owner, leading Agile teams for data/analytics outcomes.
• Experience with large volumes of data and strong understanding of data analytics – traditional business analytics and modern data science techniques.
• Experience in designing, developing, or managing data/analytics solutions.
• Cloud experience is preferable.
• Familiarity with data management and modeling concepts, canonical data models.
• Familiarity with merchant and transaction banking or at least in financial services.
• Able to understand business needs and translate into analytical execution, including supervision and review of analysis with a critical eye.
• Able to innovate new use cases and evaluate business impact.
• Able to interface with technology to create user stories, plan, and groom Agile sprints.

• Self‑motivated & accountable – strong “can do” attitude and full ownership of delivery.
• Product mindset focused on users, pain points, and value‑creation delivering solutions.
• Product management skills, ability to lead cross‑functional teams toward a common vision.
• Superior communication skills – clear articulation of complex strategies, techniques, and ideas, both oral and written, to senior management.
• Execution oriented – makes decisions to deliver rapid business impact.
• Collaborative – strong collaboration and influencing skills to lead cross‑functional teams to deliverables and engagements.
• Bias for change – actively seeks ways to improve processes, people, and performance.
• Influencing skills – can influence outcomes without direct authority, navigating large complex organizations.

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