Sr. Data Product Manager

Job Summary:


This role will lead the team that works closely with business partners to convert their data needs and challenges into data-driven solutions/products by collaborating with data engineers and architects who build it. As the leader of this organization, you will ensure that business partners can easily understand, access, and utilize data to make better business decisions directly in data tables or via dashboards. This team is evolving from a traditional Business Intelligence (BI) approach to an Analytics Engineering approach with the emphasis on data usability, accessibility, and adoption directly in our cloud environment but also through dashboards. We are seeking a leader with experience and vision to 1) drive the transition, 2) hire the right talent, and 3) deliver on the team mission to accelerate speed-to-insight by providing the right data to the right leaders to make the right decisions. This business-savvy leader and team have full accountability for data products with senior level exposure and direct influence on the company's success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Promote the vision and lead the transition to a data product focus providing the business with trusted, intuitive, reliable, and performant data
• Evangelize the data products adoption through training materials, webinars, and hands-on training with business analysts through the company
• Advance best practices, skill development and ability for the team to deliver business value
• Develop the team to be the data SMEs for their business partners by building relationships and demonstrating their expertise
• Facilitate collaboration with business leaders, data engineers, data scientists, software engineers, and other developers to deliver the right data to the right people to make the right decisions
• Build your business domain expertise along with those on the team to understand the business partner's data needs, gather requirements, translate business problems into technical solutions leading to broad adoption and business impact
• Develop and implement data models, tables, and dashboards that help the business interpret data, derive insights, and make informed decisions
• Design flexible and comprehensive dashboards that enable the business to answer the majority of their questions in minutes/hours instead of days/weeks or building dozens of visualizations for specific needs
• Champion data solutions that can be used by multiple teams across Client
• Conduct independent research on all aspects of a product's experiences and data, provide findings and recommendations on which data are critical to fully understand the customer experience
• Explore and onboard new third-party data sources that can improve business performance
• Recognize, develop, and adopt best practices for building analytical insights including data integrity, testing, design, analysis, validation, documentation, and training to ensure data products are adopted
• Comply with health and safety guidelines and rules; managers should also ensure compliance across their teams.
• Protect Client's reputation by keeping information confidential.
• Maintain professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops, reading professional publications, establishing personal networks, and participating in professional societies.
• Contribute to the team effort by accomplishing related results and participating on projects as needed.

Experience:
• 10+ years work experience within Analytics Engineering or Business Intelligence, leading projects and building actionable, data-based solutions (data models, tables, and dashboards) in a cloud environment
• 5+ years managing a team of at least 3 people in Analytics Engineering or Business Intelligence
• Advanced experience with data visualization platforms such as Power BI, Tableau, or Qlik
• Intermediate level experience with Python 3 and focus on Pandas, Polars, or Spark for data analytics use cases (similar R experience acceptable)
• Experience creating self-service analytics, preferably within Azure Cloud architecture, PowerBI, and/or Databricks.
• Experience working with large data volumes both structured and unstructured

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Strong business presence and acumen to help business partners decipher their true underlying data needs that support the insights that will lead to incremental business impact
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and drive data-driven culture across the organization
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Strong understanding of data warehouse/data modeling concepts and procedures
• Ability to effectively lead projects from conception to conclusion, both directly and indirectly through the team (including working with both internal and external resources)
• Ability to develop, document, and deliver end user materials such as training or project artifacts
• Working knowledge of Azure cloud-based architecture and PowerBI
• Proficiency within the Microsoft Office Suite of products

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS


Education/Certifications:
• Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Mathematics, Business Analytics, or another related field
• Power BI Development and Design-related certification


Experience:
• Experience with Azure Synapse, Databricks and ADLS Gen 2
• Google analytics, Firebase, Big Query
• Event Hubs, Kafka
• Salesforce, SAP, CDP platforms such as Tealium
• Building and creating web-based data visualization


Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Project Management/Tracking tools such as Jira
• Source Control, BitBucket, etc.
• Working with a software/technology organization