Data Product Manager

Summary

Join ezCater, a leading food technology company, as a Data Product Manager. You will facilitate data initiatives across the organization, working with senior leaders and stakeholders to drive data projects and products. This role requires proven experience in implementing data or analytics projects and using data to drive business value. You will identify data needs, translate them into actionable requirements, build data roadmaps, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver data features. Success in this position demands strong communication, collaboration, and project management skills. ezCater offers a competitive salary, stock options, comprehensive benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience as an owner of Data or Analytics Products, direct Data Product Management experience strongly preferred
• 3+ years of experience working in or directly with Data Engineering or Analytics teams
• Data analytics background with a demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with business and engineering partners to translate business needs into results
• Experience with data warehousing, data lakes, ELT process, and enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Redshift or BigQuery
• Strong proficiency in SQL is required
• Strong communication skills. Ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and work seamlessly with Engineering groups
• Track record of developing complex multi-quarter product plans that align business and engineering priorities
• Project Delivery skills. Ability to track roadmap progress into estimated completion dates based on a scrum team’s velocity
• Experience in SQL, BI tools such as Tableau, Sigma or Looker to analyze data build and reports
• Experience with Agile software development tools such as Jira and collaboration tools such as Confluence, Monday or Productboard
• A disposition that is friendly, flexible and pragmatic, and the desire to learn something new every day and continue to grow

Responsibilities

• Identify Value: Work with stakeholders to understand their objectives and define the data vision, identify their data needs and requirements to unlock our data in pursuit of our goals
• Bridge Gaps: Convert business data needs into actionable requirements for the data engineering team, and create alignment between teams on value vs effort
• Build Data Roadmap: Drive the prioritization of projects and overall vision to develop the company's internal capability to effectively operationalize data
• Coordinate: Facilitate the cross-functional development of key data assets by coordinating teams that produce, shape and consume
• Deliver: Work with your partner teams to deliver data features on your roadmap and communicate the expected timing and status to leadership
• Increase Adoption & Track Value: Lead user acceptance testing of functional requirements. Treat data as a product with real return on investment just like you would a consumer-facing product
• Own It End-to-end: Own value discovery, requirements gathering, feature prioritization, roadmapping, stakeholder coordination, UAT, documentation and adoption tracking. Be the authoritative expert on the data products you own. Resolve questions and inconsistencies with our data products by tracing lineage and your expertise in our systems and infrastructure

Benefits

• Market salary
• Stock options
• The usual holidays
• All-you-can-eat vacation
• 401K with ezCater match
• Health/dental/FSA
• Long-term disability insurance
• Remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!)
• A tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy
• Wicked awesome co-workers
• Cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices