Product Manager, Data Pipeline

Summary

Join us as a Product Manager, data pipeline, to lead the sustainability, innovation, and data integration of our core data pipeline, internal data products, and ensure continual quality publication of AIS data and BigQuery production tables.

Responsibilities

• Lead the sustainability, innovation, and data integration of our core data pipeline, internal data products
• Ensure continual quality publication of the AIS data and all Google Cloud Platform - BigQuery production tables
• Lead the agile management of the core pipeline sprint tasks handled by the data engineering team and data QA analyst
• Maintain the core data pipeline roadmap, versions and ensure a coordinated release cycle of the pipeline
• Track the data staging of datasets integrated into the core pipeline and ensure the staging requirements are met to move datasets forward in their cycle to a ‘production’ ready stage
• Follow up on data issues reported during a data pipeline release in close collaboration with the Data team
• Ensure timely review and QA of the core data pipeline prior to internal publication by coordinating the efforts of program, data, and engineering and periodically publish data quality metrics
• Ensure data’s completeness and representation in all products meet the expected results by users
• Ensure cross-team coordination and communication, and support the Product team on external communication of the data
• Have a deep knowledge of all BigQuery tables at Global Fishing Watch and develop table updates to address different users' needs
• Have a basic knowledge of all the digital product portfolios at Global Fishing Watch to understand how core pipeline data is displayed in our public data and products
• Develop metrics to help track the internal usage of core pipeline BigQuery tables
• Lead communication internally to ensure a clear understanding of core pipeline datasets, updates, and errors
• Engage with a geographically diverse group of internal stakeholders to identify use-cases, and challenges in using the BigQuery tables to improve their output and accessibility
• Help with the coordination of Global Fishing Watch Engineering, Product, Data, Research, Analysis and Program teams to create new datasets (like matching vessel monitoring system (VMS) to automatic identification system (AIS) systems) and make them actionable in the core data pipeline
• Aid in the development of our data governance standards at GFW set by the Data Team
• Work closely with the Data Team to help evolve the data staging requirements within our data pipelines
• Ensure data ethics principles are met in our core pipeline and manage required data ethics reviews
• Help develop the metadata requirements and documentation standards within the core pipeline
• Participate in the bi-weekly backlog meeting to help prioritize the work needed for the core pipeline
• Manage delivery timelines and reinforce expectations for data availability, ensure timely execution and alignment with the Technology and Innovation roadmap
• Coordinate, develop, release and update training and supporting materials including release notes, data FAQ, video and supporting resources for core data pipeline
• Track and report progress of projects to key stakeholders
• Internally reinforce product awareness and knowledge (training/awareness/FAQs)
• Find interconnections between existing BigQuery tables and new user requirements. Maintain the collection of user needs and perform data-driven prioritization of features with product and engineering teams
• Organizational communication of progress every quarter
• The role will also coordinate the translation of materials into different languages if needed
• Keep KPI metrics updated: requests/issues received, requests/issues responded to, and requests/issues resolved. Work with the data team to update Data Quality metrics