Senior Technical Product Manager, Data Platform

Summary

Join Salsify, a leading commerce infrastructure company, as a Senior Technical Product Manager, Data Platform. Partner with engineering leads to define the data platform strategy, roadmap, and execution. You will collaborate with stakeholders to understand data usage, prioritize projects, and manage expectations. This role requires strong technical skills, experience with data platforms, and the ability to communicate complex information effectively. Salsify offers competitive compensation, stock options, benefits, flexible work arrangements, and a culture that values learning and growth. This is a high-impact opportunity to shape the future of a high-growth SaaS company.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in product management, with 3-5 years focused on data platforms or data infrastructure
• Strong technical background with a solid understanding of distributed systems, databases, data pipelines, and cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, etc.)
• Experience working with modern data architectures, including event-driven systems, business intelligence tools, data warehouses, data lakes, and stream processing frameworks
• Strong understanding of systems and their interactions, with the ability to connect the dots and simplify complex concepts for broader audiences
• Demonstrated ability to manage relationships with stakeholders, ensuring alignment and effective communication
• Experience with observability, logging, monitoring, and security best practices for cloud-based data platforms

Responsibilities

• Drive the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our data platform with Engineering counterparts
• Work with engineering teams to design and implement improvements to our data platform to ensure that we provide scalable high-performance and high quality data solutions -- inclusive of our already heavily-used and high-value data lake, and the data pipelines that feed it -- that will serve Salsify, our customers, and our partners in the near and long-term
• Partner closely with stakeholders to understand how our data is used, how stakeholders would like to use it, its impact, and prioritize work to ensure critical data is highly available and trustworthy
• Support prioritization and triage of data infrastructure projects, balancing strategic initiatives and tactical needs
• Manage stakeholder expectations and escalations , ensuring clear communication and alignment
• Provide thought leadership on data platform scalability and strategic investments that will enable us to leverage our data in support of future AI or other data-driven use cases
• Be a partner for others on the Product team , enabling other Product Managers to do responsible discovery, understand the implications of decisions, and build scalable solutions for our customers
• Evangelizing use of the Data Platform across internal teams , and helping drive understanding of its’ value and how to use it
• Stay ahead of emerging trends in data engineering, cloud computing, and distributed systems, integrating innovative solutions where applicable
• Collaborate with Data Platform engineering to define ‘golden paths’ for platform users, ensuring efficient and standardized access for analysts, engineers, and others building data-driven applications at Salsify
• Collaborate with infrastructure engineering leadership to align roadmaps and identify overlapping initiatives
• Support Engineering in maintaining compliance with regulations such as SOC and GDPR, ensuring visibility into data provenance, usage and governance
• Explore AI-enabled features and processes within the data platform, helping define tooling, governance, and monitoring strategies

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with compliance standards such as GDPR and SOC 2 is a plus
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field preferred

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, stock options, and benefits package
• Flexible work arrangements, including remote-friendly options
• A culture that values learning, growth, and technical excellence
• Health & medical benefits
• PTO