Lead Data Product Manager

Cancer Research UK; Stratford-upon-Avon; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cancer Research UK is seeking a Lead Data Product Manager to drive the data product roadmap and deliver scalable data products that deliver measurable value to users across the charity. You will lead cross-functional squads of engineers and analysts within the Data and Technology department, balancing immediate needs with long-term platform sustainability in a hybrid role.

This permanent, full-time position in Stratford offers a salary of £75,000–£85,000 per annum plus benefits, with office

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering data products for internal users/customers.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams in a challenging stakeholder environment.
• Data-driven approach with metrics to measure product success.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of foundational data products defined within roadmaps.
• Own and evolve roadmaps balancing immediate needs with long-term platform goals.
• Ensure data products are discoverable, accessible, self-describing, trustworthy and secure.
• Engage with users to identify data product requirements.
• Collaborate to form cross-functional squads of engineers and analysts.

Skills

Data product management

Cross-functional coordination

Metrics tracking

Stakeholder management

Collaborative problem solving

User-centered design

Compliance awareness

Job description

Lead Data Product Manager

Department: Data and Technology

Salary: £75,000 - £85,000 per annum plus benefits

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full-time (we're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements)

Location: Stratford, London Office-based with high flexibility (typically 2 days per week in the office)

Closing date: 1 November 2026 at 23:59

Visa sponsorship: You must be eligible to work in the UK to apply for this vacancy. Cancer Research UK is not able to offer visa sponsorship.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We're embarking on an ambitious transformation to harness the power of data to beat cancer sooner.

We are building a portfolio of trusted, reusable data products that will be used by internal users/customers in CRUK to help engage supporters, improve organisational performance, and enable data-driven decision-making across the charity.

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.

What skills are we looking for?

• 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.

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that's impressive.

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.

Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, in particular those from ethnic minority backgrounds who are currently under-represented.

We want to see every candidate performing at their best throughout the job application process, interview process and whilst at work. We therefore ask you to inform us of any concerns you have or any adjustments you might need to enable this to happen. Please contact [e-mail] or 020 3469 8400 as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, we are unable to recruit anyone below the age of 18, so that we can protect young people from health & safety and safeguarding risks.