IT Data Product Manager

Requisition Number: 74628

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Our Optical Communications segment has recently evolved from being a manufacturer of optical fiber and cable, hardware and equipment to being a comprehensive provider of industry-leading optical solutions across the broader communications industry.This segment is classified into two main product groupings – carrier network and enterprise network. The carrier network product group consists primarily of products and solutions for optical-based communications infrastructure for services such as video, data and voice communications. The enterprise network product group consists primarily of optical-based communication networks sold to businesses, governments and individuals for their own use.

Role Summary

 We are seeking an innovative, strategic, and execution-oriented IT Data Product Manager & Owner to lead the vision, roadmap, and delivery of D&IT data products that unlock business value through trusted, reusable data assets. This role blends product management (strategy, vision, roadmap, market/industry awareness, stakeholder alignment) with product ownership (backlog prioritization, requirement definition, release planning, and value delivery). You will partner across Digital & IT to connect strategy with pragmatic delivery—shaping a portfolio of data products (e.g., curated data sets, analytic-ready domain data, semantic layers, governed catalogs, and shared services) that improve decision making, operational efficiency, and innovation. You will champion a user-centric, data-driven culture, ensuring the product portfolio is valuable, usable, feasible, and compliant.

Key Responsibilities:

 Product Strategy & Vision

 • Define and communicate a compelling data product vision, strategy, and multi-horizon roadmap that aligns to D&IT goals, business value metrics, and D&IT technology roadmaps.

• Develop and maintain an integrated roadmap, translating strategic objectives into clear product outcomes and investment priorities.

• Monitor industry trends (data, AI, enterprise applications, governance, privacy/security) to continuously evolve product strategy and keep solutions competitive and modern.

Product Ownership & Delivery

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle (discovery → ideation → MVP → scaling → sustainment) for core D&IT data products and services.

• Lead backlog management: translate D&IT needs into actionable epics/stories; prioritize based on value, risk, and effort; maintain a transparent delivery plan. 

• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical requirements.

Data Governance, Quality & Compliance

• Ensure data products are clean, secure, compliant, and well-documented—including metadata management, lineage, PII handling, access controls, and policy adherence.

• Help build and maintain a trusted IT data catalog (business context, technical metadata, reference data) to enable discovery, reuse, and self-service analytics.

• Align with a D&IT data governance model.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change Leadership 

• Engage leaders and end users to gather requirements, validate value hypotheses, and align priorities; facilitate cross-functional planning sessions.

• Influence D&IT processes and culture to become increasingly data-driven—coaching teams on data literacy, product thinking, and evidence-based decision-making.

• Create clear communications: product briefs, value narratives, adoption playbooks, and release notes tailored to executive and practitioner audiences.

Performance Measurement & Value Realization

• Define and track KPIs for data products (adoption, satisfaction, business value, data quality, cycle time, catalog coverage, cost-to-serve).

• Analyze product performance and drive continuous improvement using quantitative and qualitative feedback loops.

• Prepare concise reports on progress, outcomes, risks, and mitigation for management, project teams, and sponsors.

Leadership & People

• Validate that customer requirements are met in the product; run fit-gap assessments and usability checks to ensure solutions meet needs and produce measurable results.

• Ensure alignment with D&IT product strategy leaders and enterprise architecture.

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, or related field.

• 7–10+ years of experience across data management, data governance, analytics, or related domains; 3+ years defining product strategies and leading product communications.

• Demonstrated experience introducing and scaling a product mindset in technical and business teams within a matrixed environment.

• Experience with data catalog and governance tools (e.g., Alation), data platforms (Azure/AWS, Databricks , Snowflake), and BI/semantic tools (Power BI, Tableau).

• Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies; proven product lifecycle management.

• Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills; ability to explain digital concepts to business and business concepts to technologists.

• Analytical mindset, comfortable with data-driven decision making and KPI tracking.

• Ability to manage multiple initiatives, set priorities, and deliver results in complex, fluid environments.

• Professionalism, ethical behavior, and a collaborative working style.

Preferred

• Experience treating data as a product/asset, including data mesh–style domains and shared services.

• Familiarity with DAMA-DMBOK, data quality frameworks, and federated governance.

• Knowledge of industry-specific data standards and regulatory requirements (e.g., privacy, security, retention).

• Strategy/management consulting, learning & development, or organizational change experience.