Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Empower is a financial services company focused on helping customers achieve financial freedom through inclusive, flexible work and career opportunities. The Data Product Manager will own enterprise data products, translating business, analytical, operational, and regulatory needs into trusted, scalable capabilities while partnering with engineering, architecture, analytics, and governance teams. The role emphasizes advanced SQL, data analysis, data quality, governance, regulatory compliance, and product adoption.
Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap, priorities, delivery, and ongoing management of assigned enterprise data products or components of a data domain
- Develop a strong understanding of how assigned data products are sourced, transformed, governed, and consumed, and use that understanding to identify opportunities to improve reliability, usability, quality, and business value
- Use SQL regularly to investigate data questions, validate business logic, analyze data across multiple tables, trace discrepancies, and independently assess whether data products are producing expected results
- Troubleshoot data quality issues by identifying where problems originate, evaluating downstream impact, and partnering with the appropriate technical and business teams to drive resolution
- Translate business, analytical, operational, and regulatory needs into clear product requirements that engineering and analytics teams can execute
- Define and maintain product requirements, epics, user stories, and supporting documentation for datasets, metrics, APIs, dashboards, and related data capabilities
- Partner with data engineering and architecture teams on data models, pipelines, interfaces, dependencies, and architecture decisions. Understand the technical design well enough to ask informed questions, evaluate tradeoffs, and represent the product and business impact of those decisions
- Work through situations where business definitions, source data, technical constraints, and governance requirements do not initially align. Bring the right stakeholders together, clarify tradeoffs, and drive decisions
- Incorporate data quality, metadata, lineage, master data management, access, privacy, retention, and other governance requirements into product decisions and delivery
- Ensure data products meet established expectations for quality, performance, availability, scalability, security, and usability
- Support regulatory, risk, and audit reviews by helping explain how data is sourced, transformed, controlled, accessed, and used
- Track and report on data product usage, quality, delivery performance, and other measures of product health
- Drive adoption through clear documentation, stakeholder communication, and enablement
- Work within Agile delivery practices while balancing roadmap priorities with data issues, regulatory requirements, stakeholder needs, and changing business priorities
- During the first 6 to 12 months, establish clear priorities for assigned data products, build a working understanding of their data flows and dependencies, identify meaningful quality or usability gaps, and strengthen how the products are delivered, governed, measured, and used
Skills
- Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, business, or a related field
- 5 to 7+ years of product management experience, including experience with data, analytics, or platform products
- Advanced SQL and data analysis capability demonstrated through hands-on work with complex datasets. You should be able to independently write and interpret complex joins across multiple tables, trace data through transformations, validate business logic, reconcile conflicting results, and investigate data quality issues without relying entirely on engineering or analytics partners
- Demonstrated experience using SQL to solve a meaningful business or product problem, such as identifying the source of an incorrect metric, validating data transformations, comparing results across systems, investigating a data defect, or determining whether delivered data met an intended business need
- Ability to use SQL and data analysis as part of product decision-making, including testing assumptions, validating requirements, investigating defects, and assessing whether delivered data supports the intended outcome
- Demonstrated ownership of a data product, data capability, or meaningful component of a data domain from business need through delivery and ongoing use. You should be able to explain what you personally owned, the decisions you made, and how you evaluated whether the product was successful
- Demonstrated experience working with data engineers and architects on data models, pipelines, or architecture decisions. You should be able to explain a technical or delivery tradeoff you influenced and the effect of that decision
- Demonstrated experience translating an ambiguous business need into actionable requirements that resulted in a delivered dataset, metric, API, dashboard, or other data capability
- Demonstrated experience identifying or resolving a data quality, governance, or control issue that affected the reliability, trust, availability, or usability of data
- Working knowledge of data modeling and data architecture, including the ability to understand how data structures and design decisions affect downstream analytical and operational use
- Working knowledge of data pipelines and the movement and transformation of data from source systems to downstream consumers
- Working knowledge of data warehouses and data lakes
- Understanding of data governance concepts, including data quality, metadata management, data lineage, and master data management
- Familiarity with Agile and Scrum delivery methodologies
- Understanding of financial services controls
- For remote and hybrid positions you will be required to provide reliable high-speed internet with a wired connection as well as a place in your home to work with limited disruption
- You must have reliable connectivity from an internet service provider that is fiber, cable or DSL internet
- Experience delivering data products in financial services, fintech, or another regulated industry where privacy, access, lineage, retention, risk, or audit requirements influenced product decisions
- Experience working with APIs as part of a data product, such as defining data exchanged through an interface, supporting integrations, troubleshooting downstream use, or managing an API as part of a broader product
- Experience working with cloud-based data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform in support of data product delivery
- Experience with BI, analytics tools, or metrics layers where you were responsible for ensuring that business definitions and underlying data produced consistent analytical results
- A background in analytics, data engineering, or a quantitative role that enables you to investigate technical issues independently and communicate effectively with technical teams
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance
- Retirement savings - 401(k) plan with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%), financial advisory services, potential company discretionary contribution, and a broad investment lineup
- Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
- Business-casual environment that includes the option to wear jeans
- Generous paid time off upon hire - including a paid time off program plus ten paid company holidays and three floating holidays each calendar year
- Paid volunteer time - 16 hours per calendar year
- Leave of absence programs - including paid parental leave, paid short- and long-term disability, and Family and Medical Leave (FMLA)
- Business Resource Groups (BRGs) - BRGs facilitate inclusion and collaboration across our business internally and throughout the communities where we live, work and play. BRGs are open to all.
- Flexible work environment
- Fluid career paths and internal mobility
- Non-sales positions have the opportunity to participate in a bonus program.
- For remote and hybrid positions, other necessary computer equipment will be provided.
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