Manager, Data Product Management

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Software Engineering

Location:

Northbrook, IL, United States;
Chicago, IL, United States

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Serves as a key leader within the Global Data & Analytics organization, responsible for building, coaching, and guiding a high-performing team of Data Product Owners to deliver scalable, high-impact data and analytics products. This role plays a critical part in shaping how the organization translates data into business value—owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data products in close partnership with business and IT leaders.

The manager drives alignment between enterprise priorities and product delivery, ensuring teams focus on the highest-value outcomes and deliver measurable impact.

As a strategic leader, this role oversees the end-to-end data product portfolio, balancing competing priorities, investments, and dependencies across a global landscape. They enable consistent, high-quality execution by establishing strong product management practices, clear backlogs, and outcome-based success measures, while removing barriers and resolving cross-functional challenges. The role is central to driving adoption, usability, and business value from data products, and ensures tight collaboration across business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and governance teams.

Qualifications8+ years of experience in data, analytics, or product management roles, including delivery of data products such as dashboards, semantic models, and data platforms that drive business value 3+ years of people leadership experience managing product owners, analysts, or data professionals, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams Proven experience defining and executing data product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization, aligning to business goals and enterprise data strategy Strong ability to translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, capabilities, and outcome-based delivery plans Experience managing a portfolio of data and analytics products, including intake, prioritization, dependency management, and investment planning Solid understanding of modern data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure), data modeling concepts, and BI/analytics tools Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and master data management practices to ensure trusted and compliant data products Experience working within Agile delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence business and IT leaders and drive alignment across global teams Proven ability to define and track product success metrics such as adoption, business impact, usability, and quality Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
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