Senior Data Product Owner: Analytics & Data Platforms

Grid Dynamics; Kraków; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

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Job summary

Grid Dynamics in Kraków is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Data Product Owner to join the EMEA data strategy and enablement function. You will own data products powering analytics, AI and operational workflows across the region.

You will translate business needs into technical requirements and lead the team to deliver production-ready, governed data products with GDPR compliance and data residency across markets.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in product management or ownership, data platforms, analytics or digital strategy.
• Delivery ownership: manage a delivery team to ship against scope.
• Stakeholder leadership with exec, technical and non-technical audiences.
• Agile product craft: backlog management, story writing, and agile delivery at scale.
• Data fluency: ELT/ETL, event streaming, data modelling, semantic layers and observability.
• Regulation & ethics: GDPR, data privacy, security, and AI ethics.
• Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, CS, Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• End-to-End Product Ownership: Own the data product lifecycle from vision through to a 12–24 month outcome-based roadmap, backlog, release, adoption and measurable value.
• Requirements to Delivery: Elicit needs from senior stakeholders, translate into technical requirements and prioritised epics and stories, lead refinement and planning with DoR/DoD, and drive the team to ship against scope.
• Governance & Compliance by Design: Embed data governance, privacy, security and lifecycle controls into every increment, ensuring GDPR and data residency compliance across multiple markets.
• Data Contracts & Reuse: Maintain versioned data contracts and semantic layers for cross-domain interoperability, drive reuse of enterprise data platforms and reference architecture.
• Value & Executive Reporting: Define and track KPIs and OKRs (adoption, time-to-data, data trust, NPS, ROI), run quarterly value reviews, and prepare business cases for executive decisions.
• Operations & Budget: Lead incident triage, root cause analysis and release and change management, and own the product budget, forecast and ROI reporting to Finance.

Skills

Leadership

Agile product craft

Backlog management

Stakeholder communication

ELT/ETL understanding

Data modelling

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Grid Dynamics in Kraków is seeking a Senior Business Analyst / Data Product Owner to join the EMEA data strategy and enablement function. You will own data products powering analytics, AI and operational workflows across the region.

You will translate business needs into technical requirements and lead the team to deliver production-ready, governed data products with GDPR compliance and data residency across markets.