Senior Product Owner (Data Strategy)

divh2Senior Product Owner/h2pCambridge Investment Research is looking for a Senior Product Owner that will be accountable for product outcomes for the Data Strategy Product, a shared services platform product that establishes and enables how the organization defines, governs, discovers, trusts, and uses data. This role owns the product vision, strategy, and roadmap; translates enterprise data needs into a prioritized portfolio of capabilities and standards; and partners with engineering, data governance, security, architecture, and business leaders to deliver measurable improvements in data usability, quality, compliance, and time-to-value./ppKey Responsibilities/pulliOwn outcomes and OKRs: Define measurable outcomes (OKRs/KPIs), establish baselines, and maintain a product scorecard; proactively manage trade-offs to hit outcomes (not just deliver outputs)/liliData vision and strategy: Partner with Technology Data team to execute established data strategy, standards, governance, and adoption. Ensure business solutions across multiple products align to standards/liliLead multi-team discovery: Run discovery across domains and shared services consumers (research, data/telemetry, stakeholder input) to validate problems, segment users, and define value hypotheses/liliPrioritize enterprise demand: Manage intake and prioritization across competing needs using transparent criteria (value, risk, effort, dependencies, compliance); create options and investment recommendations/liliDefine product requirements and guardrails: Translate strategy into outcomes, epics, and acceptance criteria; establish standards and decision guardrails to enable teams to execute consistently/liliOrchestrate cross-functional delivery: Partner with data engineering, platform/architecture, security, risk/compliance, data governance, testing with QA/Business to deliver capabilities, policies, and enablement that scale/liliInstrument and improve: Ensure the product is observabledefine telemetry and reporting (adoption, coverage, quality, policy compliance, time-to-access); use insights to drive continuous improvement/liliEnable operating model rigor: Establish product rituals and artifacts (roadmap reviews, quarterly planning inputs, decision logs, release communications); drive systemic improvements across teams/liliClarify decision rights and stewardship: Define ownership and operating agreements across data producers/consumers; align governance forums and escalation paths to ensure fast, compliant decisions/li/ulpSalary Range: $105,000 - 120,000. The salary range provided is a good faith estimate based on the ideal candidates qualifications, the companys operational needs, and other factors permitted by law. Actual compensation may vary depending on experience, skills, education, performance, internal equity, and geographic location./ppWhy Cambridge? Our comprehensive benefits package is designed to support your health, well-being, and work-life balance. We offer paid time off, paid holidays and floating holidays, medical, dental, and vision coverage, short- and long-term disability, and company-paid life insurance. Associates also enjoy volunteer time off, wellness incentives, and additional benefits that support you both personally and professionally./ppCompany Overview: At Cambridge, our purpose is simple: to make a difference in the lives of our financial advisors, their clients, and our associates. Founded in 1981, we have nearly 45 years of experience supporting independent financial advisors with industry-leading tools, compliance, and transition services. Guided by our core valuesintegrity, commitment, flexibility, and kindnesswe put financial advisors first in every decision we make./ppCambridge is an internally controlled, growth-focused independent broker-dealer with $254 billion in assets under advisement and $1.97 billion in annual revenues. We rank among the largest and fastest-growing firms in the industry, providing financial advisors with the flexibility, resources, and support to thrive. With home offices in Fairfield, Iowa, and Phoenix, Arizona, and a nationwide reach, our 900 associates maintain a 4:1 advisor-to-associate ratio to ensure personalized service./ppOur community of over 4,000 producing financial advisors includes diverse business modelsRIA, corporate RIA, hybrid, fee-only, and brokerageand offers a broad selection of investment solutions with no proprietary products. At Cambridge, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and empowering workplace, where 60% of our associates and 18% of our financial advisors are women, and 17% of our advisors are under 40./ppJoin us to help financial advisors succeed, make an impact, and discover your Something Wonderful./ppWork Environments/ppThis role offers a hybrid schedule, requiring three days weekly in the office. Applicants should be located near one of our hubs (Fairfield, IA or Phoenix, AZ) and must be willing to work this schedule. Cambridge is not considering remote candidates at this time./p/div