Data Product Manager

Program Manager - RemoteSample Tasks Product Strategy & Vision: Define the vision and roadmap for data products (e.g., data platforms, analytics tools, ML infrastructure). Identify high value opportunities by investigating the data landscape, pain points, and business needs. Align data product strategy with organizational priorities and long-term data architecture, in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team and various interested parties. Connect data capabilities to business outcomes and organize efforts to achieve the business outcomes. Align engineering, analytics, and business teams. Uses metrics to guide prioritization and product evolution. Data Product Development: Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of data products: requirements, design, development, testing, launch, and iteration. Partner with data engineers and data scientists to build scalable pipelines, models, and data services. Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and documentation standards are met. Translate business logic into data transformations, metadata, and domain specific rules. Skilled in or adept at data architecture, modeling, and pipelines. Ensures data products are reliable, governed, and scalable. Interested Parties Management: Serve as the primary liaison between technical teams at Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) and business partners across DCYF. Communicate product value, roadmap, and use cases to leadership and cross-functional teams. Prioritize incoming requests and balance competing needs across teams. Analytics, Insights & Measurement: Define success metrics and measure product performance and adoption. Ensure data products deliver actionable insights and support decision making. Partner with analytics teams to design dashboards, KPIs, and reporting frameworks. Governance, Compliance & Ethical Data Use: Uphold data governance, privacy, and ethical AI standards. Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational data policies. Advocate for responsible data use across the human services space served by and supported through DCYF and MNIT DCYF. Provide knowledge transfer Desired Qualifications Desired 4–7 years of experience in Data management, data analytics, data engineering, or related fields. Demonstrated Product leadership skills and ability to work in ambiguity. Strong understanding of data systems: pipelines, warehousing, modeling, metadata, governance. Proficiency collaborating with data Architecture, data engineering and data science teams. Ability to translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language. Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills. Experience with analytics tools (dbt, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics). Understanding of large organizational data sharing constraints and data sharing agreements. Experience with SQL, data lakes, data and data pipelines / ETL. Significant experience with Databricks. Familiarity with Java and Python. Background in building internal platforms or developer facing products. Experience in implementing modern data architectures at an organization. Experience in a highly regulated industry performing statistical analysis and reporting. Everforth Apex Benefits Overview medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan). SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions. corporate discount savings program and other discounts. an on-demand training program, providing access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. full list of benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide. Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. 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