Staff Data Platform PM - Governed, AI-Ready Data

OVO Energy; West of England; On-site; GBP 82,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-target bonus 15%

Flex Pay 9%

34 days holiday

Private healthcare

Job summary

OVO Energy is seeking a Staff Product Manager for the Data Platform to define the vision and strategy for data governance, trust, and self-serve data products. You’ll align API and analytics layers, collaborate with data engineering, data science, and business teams, and drive adoption of a golden-path data platform across the company.

You’ll lead governance by design, measure impact with analytics and cost data, and influence senior stakeholders to prioritise a data-centric roadmap in support

Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver Platform strategy: Define and drive a clear product strategy across the platform’s pillars (ingestion and transformation, trust and governance, self-serve marketplace, and AI enablement) spanning both the API and analytical layers, and keeping it aligned with OVO’s business goals and grounded in what data producers and consumers actually need.
• Measure and prove Platform impact: Use usage analytics, cost data, and user research to surface insight, prioritise the roadmap, and measure success against the KPIs that reflect genuinely more trusted, cheaper, and more usable data.
• Lead governance and compliance by design: Own the mechanisms that keep OVO’s data trustworthy (i.e. classification, access control, retention tooling) and make compliance with Ofgem’s data best practice and OVO’s data-protection obligations guardrails built into the platform rather than a manual overhead.
• Enable Data Simplification: Support the work to establish sources of truth and retire duplication across OVO’s data estate, influencing decentralised data owners to adopt shared standards, recognising that the hard part is organisational, not just technical.
• Drive adoption and growth: Treat the platform as a product with customers you have to win. Actively promote it, onboard teams, strip out barriers to use, and grow adoption of the golden path until it’s the default way OVO builds and consumes data. Measure success by usage and outcomes, not features shipped.
• Engage and influence stakeholders: Build strong relationships with senior leaders and data owners across OVO, presenting strategic recommendations and securing alignment on product direction and investment.
• Champion Platform product management: Help Product Managers across OVO grow their craft in platform and data product management, sharing best practices and developing a community of practice.

Job description

OVO Energy is seeking a Staff Product Manager for the Data Platform to define the vision and strategy for data governance, trust, and self-serve data products. You’ll align API and analytics layers, collaborate with data engineering, data science, and business teams, and drive adoption of a golden-path data platform across the company.

You’ll lead governance by design, measure impact with analytics and cost data, and influence senior stakeholders to prioritise a data-centric roadmap in support