Senior Manager, Data Products

Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance

Role Responsibilities:

• Lead structured intake for product demand: assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
• Own business-facing roadmap for data products (concept → publication → adoption → improvement → retirement).
• Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
• Develop and drive adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, and product content to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
• Partner with Alation and catalog teams to enable a consistent self-service data marketplace.
• Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
• Partner with domain leaders/stewards to maintain business context, definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls.
• Serve as primary business partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
• Track adoption/usage/feedback and business value; improve usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics/AI enablement.
• Lead and mentor team member capabilities for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree/equivalent) in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or related field.
• 8+ years in data governance, data/digital product management, or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience in regulated, global enterprise environments; MedTech/healthcare/pharma/life sciences/supply chain/quality/manufacturing strongly preferred.
• Confirmed data-as-a-product expertise: glossaries, metadata, data catalog/marketplace, stewardship, data quality, access governance, and lifecycle management.
• Ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; strong written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.

Preferred Skills/Capabilities:

• Alation (or similar) data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
• Business glossary/data dictionary/domain taxonomy/data contract/certification standards/governed documentation experience.
• Supply chain/manufacturing/quality/product lifecycle or enterprise planning familiarity.
• Ability to define operating models, RACI, governance forums, and scalable decision frameworks.

Other Requirements:

• Up to 10% domestic/international travel.
• Fully onsite attendance policy.