Lead Data Product Manager

๐Ÿข Workiva ยท all Workiva jobs
๐Ÿ“ United States
๐Ÿ’ฐ USD 151,000 - 242,000 / annual
๐Ÿ“… Posted 2026-07-14 ยท via Himalayas
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We're looking for a Lead Data Product Manager to own the data products that power how we run the business. This is a greenfield opportunity: you'll build the foundations, earn stakeholder trust, and ship data products people actually use to make decisions.

You'll partner directly with Finance and People & Culture leaders to translate their priorities into well-scoped data products, working alongside Analytics and Data Engineering to bring them to life. You own requirements, quality, and adoption โ€” not just delivery.

Every data product we build must support multiple consumers: a Finance analyst in a BI dashboard, an AI agent answering a business question, or a downstream application. Consistent definitions, reliable outputs, and documented semantics are the standard. Youโ€™ll also use AI in your own workflow to improve how you synthesize requirements, analyze stakeholder input, and accelerate product development.

This role reports to the VP, Data & Analytics.
What You'll Do
Define and Own the Data Product Roadmap

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Partner with Finance and P&C leaders to identify data gaps, prioritize opportunities, and build a roadmap that delivers measurable value

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Design data products that support multiple consumption patterns, including BI tools, AI-enabled experiences, and business applications

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Use data usage patterns โ€” dashboard activity, query volume, and recurring reporting requests โ€” to proactively identify unmet needs

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Translate business objectives into clear requirements, challenging assumptions early to ensure teams are solving the right problems

Drive Cross-Functional Alignment

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Serve as a strategic data partner across business stakeholders, Analytics, and Data Engineering teams

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Facilitate collaboration across functions while identifying shared data needs and reducing siloed solutions

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Build prioritization frameworks that balance competing needs and provide transparency around trade-offs

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Communicate effectively with technical teams, business leaders, and executives

Lead Data Product Development

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Own the full product lifecycle across multiple Finance and P&C initiatives, from discovery through Alpha, Beta, and GA releases

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Design user-focused data experiences that balance technical requirements with stakeholder needs

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Define and maintain semantic contracts, including field definitions, metric logic, and data grain specifications

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Identify reusable data assets and scalable models that support multiple downstream use cases

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Maintain a high bar for accuracy, freshness, and reliability while proactively resolving issues before they impact users or AI workflows

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Use AI tooling to improve product workflows, including requirements synthesis, AI-assisted SQL validation, catalog generation, and data pattern analysis

Drive Adoption and Measure Impact

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Define success metrics for each data product and measure adoption and business impact over time

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Develop a deep understanding of end-user workflows and leverage personas to create solutions that address real business needs

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Gather stakeholder feedback after launch and continuously improve products based on usage and outcomes

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Ensure data products are structured and documented to support trusted AI-enabled experiences

Build in Partnership with Engineering

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Serve as the product counterpart to Data and Analytics Engineering โ€” owning the what and why while partnering on the how

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Collaborate on semantic layer design and dbt transformations to create consistent metric definitions across BI tools, LLMs, reverse ETL pipelines, and applications

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Identify opportunities to improve ingestion, transformation, and delivery processes while advocating for investments that increase reliability and scalability

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Lead Agile delivery cycles by translating roadmap priorities into Initiatives and Epics with clear acceptance criteria

Enforce Data Governance & Quality

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Lead data catalog efforts for your product area, including discoverab

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