Data Products Program Lead – Contract to Hire

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +1 more state.

📋 Description

• Oversee the delivery of the EDU program’s data products from their definition to release and consumer adoption.

• Convert the EDU roadmap and quarterly goals into releases that include scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, and KPIs.

• Create and uphold the integrated program plan and schedule, ensuring all dependencies are considered.

• Report on plans, resources, risks, dependencies, and KPIs under the oversight of Global PMO.

• Prepare materials for steering groups and the Program Director; monitor decisions, actions, and commitments until completion.

• Identify any schedule delays, suggest recovery strategies, and escalate issues as necessary.

• Manage the program budget in conjunction with the cost-center owner.

• Take ownership of each data product’s lifecycle, which includes definition, attribute scope, source mapping, semantic rules, build acceptance, release, and versioning.

• Ensure that named owners, registered consumers, and DATSIS are established prior to release; publish release notes and catalog entries.

• Collaborate with the Data Products Delivery Lead and system architects on registry-first MDM and semantic layers.

• Keep AI use cases aligned with the product release path while maintaining the layered architecture.

• Coordinate four transactional-layer domains along with the IT delivery team.

• Assemble domain and system SMEs as Core Teams for projects.

• Resolve cross-domain semantic issues through the semantic council.

• Manage interdependencies with Program Nexus, Courtyard, and other consumer programs.

• Conduct consumer intake, define acceptance criteria, sequence MVP and v1 releases, and assist with onboarding.

• Develop plans for readiness, communication, and adoption; monitor product adoption and usage.

• Aid in the transition of released products into standard business ownership and stewardship.

• Document operating-model practices, lessons learned, and evidence for operating-model decisions.

• Contribute to the validation of the north star and assess distance to the north star.

⛳️ Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in program or technical program management.

• Minimum of 3 years leading enterprise data, MDM, or data-platform programs.

• Experience in establishing a data product or data governance program from inception at least once.

• Proven track record in delivering large, cross-functional initiatives that depend on other programs and IT platform efforts.

• Experience in transitioning or consolidating master and transactional data across systems, such as CRM or ERP migrations, MDM implementations, or registry builds.

• Background in collaborating with data architects and system architects on logical and semantic design, and with data science teams utilizing the output.

• Experience in promoting organizational adoption of new data products or operating models.

• Established history of setting, measuring, and reporting program KPIs within a corporate PMO framework.

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business, or a related field.

• Working understanding of the enterprise data lifecycle, including transaction layers, master data, identity registries, integration, pipelines, and physical, logical, and semantic layers.

• Proficient in reading, enhancing, and questioning data models, semantic definitions, and datasets.

• Comfortable utilizing SQL on a cloud data platform.

• Familiarity with governed and certified data products, including ownership, consumers, DATSIS, lineage, quality thresholds, and release versioning.

• Knowledge of Global PMO principles in planning, dependency management, risk and issue management, KPI reporting, and recovery planning.

• Strong facilitation skills and leadership in workshops across business domains and IT.

• Effective stakeholder management across a complex, multinational matrix without positional authority.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for both executive and technical audiences.

• Independent self-starter capable of managing multiple priorities with minimal supervision.

• Must have permanent authorization to work in the United States without future employer sponsorship.

• Experience in medical devices, life sciences, or regulated industries is advantageous.

• Possession of a graduate degree, PMP, PgMP, Agile, or Scrum certification, along with familiarity with Snowflake, Informatica/CDM, and Collibra is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Additional forms of compensation and benefits may be available.

• Remote work environment.

• Travel requirements of less than 20%.

• Occasional participation in domain workshops, steering-group sessions, and offsite meetings.