Data Product Manager with Banking Domain

Job Opportunity: Data Product Manager

Location: Cleveland, Ohio/ Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Hybrid

Duration: Full-Time

Key Responsibility

Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own end-to-end lifecycle of assigned data products, including vision, strategy, roadmap, and delivery.
• Collaborate with business units, analytics teams, and technology partners to prioritize features and enhancements.
• Define and track key product success metrics and adoption KPIs.
• Advocate for data products across the organization, ensuring alignment with enterprise data governance and cloud/data strategy initiatives.
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and data engineering/analytics teams.
• Gather and translate business requirements into actionable data product specifications.
• Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve trade-offs and dependencies.

Data Governance & Quality

• Ensure data products comply with regulatory, security, and privacy requirements.
• Define and enforce data quality standards, lineage, and observability metrics.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Risk, and IT Security teams to maintain compliance and audit readiness.

Technical Leadership

• Understand and leverage modern data technologies (e.g., relational databases, data warehouses, data lakes, ETL pipelines, cloud platforms, APIs, BI tools).
• Collaborate with data engineering teams on architecture, modeling, and platform decisions.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend innovations to improve data products and processes.

Execution & Delivery

• Drive delivery of data products using agile methodologies.
• Prioritize backlog, manage sprints, and ensure timely delivery of features.
• Monitor and measure product performance, adoption, and business impact.
• Thought Leadership
• Contribute to the overall data product management framework and best practices within the bank.
• Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making and product-centric thinking.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data product management, data strategy, or analytics roles; experience in banking/financial services preferred.
• Strong understanding of core banking products (e.g., deposits, loans, payments) and associated operational data flows.
• Solid knowledge of data architecture, warehousing, BI, analytics, and cloud platforms.
• Proven ability to manage multiple data products simultaneously.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills.
• Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and data governance frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, or related field; advanced degree preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with HiveQL, SQL, Tableau
• Understanding of regulatory reporting requirements (e.g., CCAR, FR Y-14, Basel).
• Exposure to semantic layers, or enterprise data product management frameworks.