Data Product Manager

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Title: Data Product Manager 

Job Type: Full time, Hybrid

Job Location: New York, NY 

Salary Range: 110,000 - 140,0000

Data Product Manager - Product Manager role will lead and directly manage key parts of the Kargo data platform product vision, development and execution. This role will play a critical role in advancing our targeting, optimization, and client data enhancement solutions initiatives through development of implicit personalization capabilities and data visualization tools. In addition, the role will also be responsible to evangelize the technical platform and data assets across the company to achieve buy into the platform and help make it central to all client related data needs. This product role is part of the Data Product team in Kargo.

This role requires close collaboration with other technical product owners, project management, platform & consumer data engineering, Kargo research & analytics, digital product and Kargo sales & marketing

The right candidate will be able to articulate a platform and product vision and be capable of blending the needs from different technical & business groups into a well formed technical product & platform road map. Furthermore, this person will have a diverse background and a demonstrable track record of successfully building and managing scaled, high-quality, innovative data platforms and technical services for an internal or external consumer organization. The right candidate must be a self-motivated, team player who can contribute to the overall business objectives of the organization. This person must be able to work closely with other internal and external product and technology experts.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead the overall product vision, scope, requirements, usability of end user facing products built off of the Kargo data warehouse and data collection tools for Kargo’s most strategic growth initiatives
• In partnership with the broader Data leadership team, data engineering and core business users -- prioritize and lead product feature development against priorities and other product platform opportunities.
• Help build and maintain consistent product requirement documents with input from stakeholders that is translatable to development teams and individual product contributors
• Define, communicate and analyze success metrics for product releases
• Proposes multiple potential solutions for complex or new problems or processes and makes objective recommendations as to which direction should be taken.
• Provides transparency and recommendations on project trade-offs and provides dependency coordination.
• Performs with a wide degree of latitude on creative solutions.
• Continually assesses and integrates internal and external customer feedback and business metrics.
• Stays on top of market trends to determine new or enhanced product capabilities that positively impact fan experience.

Basic Qualifications

• 4 years experience as a Data Scientist or experience as a technical product manager working very closely with Analysts, Data Engineers on big data, database management, and Enterprise software products
• A minimum of 3 years of experience in the enterprise technology domain, such as cloud technologies, open source, and analytics
• Hands-on Experience with large datasets and product rollouts

Preferred Qualifications

• Ad-Tech, Digital Publishing, eCommerce or other large scale digital backgrounds are preferred
• Comfortable working with Big Data technologies (Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.) Experience building and designing products that utilize both real time as well as batch data streams at scale.
• Ability to write and validate SQL queries and to ensure data is validated
• Demonstrated data driven decision making capabilities. Strong analytical skills using log level transactional data or related products with applicable experience in using analytics to influence product decisions to end products such as Looker, custom UI/UX dashboards, and others.
• Experience taking direction and input from multiple sources and creating a shared product vision
• Demonstrated ability to work on a diverse scope of projects requiring detailed analysis, creative/practical problem solving, and sound judgment.
• Understanding of the technical architecture of complex data products
• Passionate sports fan and familiarity with Kargo’s products and services
• Strong communication skills

Required Education

• BS Computer Science or related technical discipline or its equivalent.