Senior Data Product Manager, Data & Intelligence

Job Title: Senior Data Product Manager, Data & Intelligence
Job Location: 100% Remote, Canada
Job Type: T4 Contract
Experience: 8+ Years
Rate: CAD 70 - 78 per hour

Role Summary: NearSource is looking for a Senior Data Product Manager, Data & Intelligence to translate strategic business priorities and stakeholder needs into scalable, trusted, and actionable enterprise data products.

The role operates at the intersection of business strategy, data, analytics, and engineering, driving product roadmaps, requirements, prioritization, and cross-functional delivery for complex data and intelligence initiatives.
Key Responsibilities

- Translate strategic business goals and stakeholder needs into product roadmaps, product plans, epics, releases, and actionable requirements.

- Lead product discovery with business stakeholders and technical teams to define user needs, use cases, workflows, and desired outcomes.

- Own product prioritization based on customer value, strategic alignment, dependencies, technical feasibility, and implementation effort.

- Partner with Engineering Managers, Technical Leads, Data Engineers, Analysts, Data Scientists, Business Intelligence teams, and Data Governance specialists throughout the product lifecycle.

- Manage product backlogs, requirements, dependencies, risks, acceptance criteria, release readiness, and stakeholder communications.

- Ensure technical solutions remain aligned with defined business and user outcomes.

- Drive alignment across business and technical stakeholders by communicating priorities, decisions, trade-offs, risks, and progress.

- Establish feedback loops and success measures to improve product quality, adoption, scalability, and business impact.

- Identify opportunities for standardization, reuse, simplification, and automation to reduce one-off solutions.

- Translate ambiguous strategic objectives into clear, prioritized, and executable product plans for technical delivery teams.

- Drive delivery of trusted, reusable, and scalable data and intelligence products that support Go-to-Market decision-making.

Must-Have Skills

- 8+ Years of experience as a Data Product Manager, Technical Product Manager, Product Manager, or similar role working with technically complex products.

- Strong experience in strategic planning and translating business objectives into actionable product roadmaps.

- Strong stakeholder management experience across business and technical teams.

- Hands-on experience with analytics and data science products.

- Experience with product discovery, roadmap development, prioritization, and requirements definition.

- Experience managing epics, releases, product backlogs, dependencies, and acceptance criteria in an Agile environment.

- Proven ability to translate ambiguous business problems and stakeholder needs into clear and executable product plans.

- Experience partnering closely with engineering or technical development teams.

- Working knowledge of data models, data pipelines, APIs, data quality, data governance, analytical platforms, or enterprise data products.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.

Nice-to-Have Skills

- Experience with Customer Data Governance or Master Data Management.

- Experience with Customer 360, customer identity, entity resolution, account hierarchies, match/merge, or deduplication.

- Experience with third-party data ingestion, data enrichment, data quality, reconciliation, or exception management.

- Experience with policy-driven data workflows, controls, audibility, or automation.

- Experience with enterprise analytical data platforms, data warehouses, or lake house environments.

- Experience with governed datasets, shared metrics, data definitions, or semantic consistency.

- Experience with BI products, dashboard consolidation, migration, or rationalization.

- Experience with embedded analyt