Lead Data Product Manager

Cancer Research UK; London Borough of Newham; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement plan

Flexible leave allowance

Discounts on tech and travel

Gym membership

Flexible working culture

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Lead Data Product Manager to drive the data product roadmap and oversee the design and development of scalable, high-impact data products that deliver measurable value to users across CRUK.

You will lead cross-functional squads, engage with users to refine requirements, and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels to ensure alignment with strategic goals. This role offers a flexible working culture within the UK team.

Qualifications

• Proven experience working as a Data Product Manager delivering data products to internal users/customers.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve shared goals in challenging stakeholder environments.
• Data-driven approach with mechanisms to define and track qualitative and quantitative metrics to measure product impact.
• Excellent stakeholder management with ability to influence and align senior stakeholders.
• Tenacious, collaborative problem-solving to inspire delivery targets.
• Strong understanding of user needs, pain points and motivations across domains.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of foundational data products defined in roadmaps.
• Own and evolve roadmaps balancing immediate delivery with long-term platform sustainability.
• Ensure data products deliver measurable benefits to users and track usage/outcomes.
• Ensure data products are discoverable, accessible, self-describing, trustworthy and secure.
• Engage with users to identify how to develop data products to meet needs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional squads to discover, define and prioritize developments.
• Influence stakeholders across the organisation to align on goals.

Skills

Data product management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

User-centered design

Job description

We now have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Data Product Manager to join us. In this pivotal role, you will lead our data product roadmap, ensuring the design and development of scalable, high-impact data products that deliver measurable value to users across CRUK. What will be some of the main responsibilities?

• Lead delivery of the foundational data products defined within our roadmaps
• Own and evolve product roadmaps that balance immediate delivery needs with long-term (data platform sustainability/ strategic goals).
• Ensure data products deliver measurable benefit to users across CRUK and the organisation, tracking usage and outcomes.
• Ensure all data products are built and managed in a consistent way and are measurably discoverable, accessible, self-describing, trustworthy and secure.
• Engage with users to identify how best to develop the data product to meet user needs.
• Collaborate to establish the cross-functional squads comprised of technical lead, engineers and analysts to discover, define and prioritise developments to our foundational data products to meet priority outcomes.
• Collaborate with and influence stakeholders across the organisation, across a variety of seniority levels., Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive. Proven experience working as a Data Product Manager delivering data products to internal users/customers.
• Experience of coordinating cross-functional teams to achieve a shared goal, ideally in a challenging stakeholder environment with competing business priorities
• Data-driven approach, with experience establishing mechanisms to define and track qual/quantitative metrics to measure and monitor product success and impact on end users.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, with an understanding about how to influence and facilitate decision-making and bring people together to align on a shared goal or objective.
• A tenacious and collaborative approach to problem solving with the curiosity and intellect to explore ideas and opportunities and inspire product teams to achieve delivery targets.
• A rich understanding of user needs, pain points and motivations across multiple domains. Passionate about taking a user-centred approach to data product development.
• Experience working within platforms or products that process a variety of datasets, and with an appreciation of compliance requirements. In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more. We don't forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture. Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It's exciting to be part of our team.