Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New Jersey.

📋 Description

• Develop and implement the enterprise data product strategy, vision, and roadmap, initially concentrating on self-service analytics and expanding across various domains; ensure prioritization is aligned with measurable business outcomes.

• Establish enterprise standards for assessing data product investments, focusing on value realization and adoption impact as essential criteria.

• Oversee the design, development, and deployment of data products: creating a single source of truth, building reusable and scalable assets, and ensuring measurable business impacts.

• Design data models and semantic layers; define Minimum Viable Products (MVPs); utilize AI to accelerate time to market.

• Foster a culture of iteration and innovation, driven by user feedback, usage data, and emerging technologies.

• Build and expand a small, high-performing Data Product team; establish roles, responsibilities, and collaborative practices across product, engineering, and analytics.

• Guide, mentor, and coach data product managers on product mindset, prioritization, stakeholder engagement, and execution discipline.

• Advocate for a data-as-a-product mindset throughout the organization, promoting cultural and operational changes to treat data with the same rigor as software products.

• Lead the creation of self-service data platforms to democratize access to reliable data across business units, ensuring consistent metrics, standardized models, and user-friendly data access for business stakeholders.

• Encourage adoption among business teams, minimizing fragmented analytics and empowering users to maintain self-service independently.

• Collaborate with platform teams on medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold), scalable pipelines, and data modeling.

• Ensure that data products are developed on a governed, high-quality enterprise platform; align with real-time and streaming architectures.

• Collaborate with business stakeholders (Marketing, Sales, Product, Finance); work closely with Engineering, Analytics Engineering, and Governance.

• Serve as the liaison between business requirements and technical execution; foster executive alignment and influence while translating business needs into actionable data product roadmaps.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in data, analytics, or product management; 5-8+ years specifically in Data Product Management at an enterprise level.

• Demonstrated success in building and scaling data products or data platforms at an enterprise scale.

• Strong expertise in product management: vision, roadmap, prioritization, and value delivery; experience in leading and scaling product teams.

• Capacity to operate at both strategic and operational levels; familiarity with agile/scrum methodologies applied to data product delivery.

• Experience in change management, driving organizational transformation toward product-led, data-driven decision-making.

• In-depth practical knowledge of modern data engineering, architecture, governance, and analytics.

• Proficient in GCP / BigQuery; dbt / data transformation & semantic modeling; and visualization tools (Looker, Tableau, Power BI).

• Knowledge of medallion architecture (bronze/silver/gold); data pipelines, modeling, and access patterns.

• Expertise in data governance, cataloging, data contracts & SLAs for governed data product delivery.

• Familiarity with AI/ML literacy: understanding generative AI integration and model outputs as data products.

• Proven experience in enabling self-service analytics at scale; strong frameworks for KPIs and business performance metrics.

• Ability to link data products to measurable business outcomes: growth, efficiency, and decision-making.

• Recognized thought leader in data products and analytics transformation; possesses a builder mindset and thrives in uncertain environments.

• Highly collaborative, outcome-oriented, with executive presence.

🏝️ Benefits

• This position is eligible to participate in an annual incentive program.

• Information on benefits offered is here.