Business Product Manager , – Data Exchange (Data as a Service)

Hollstadt & Associates; Cottage Grove (MN); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Paid sick leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Hollstadt Consulting is seeking a Business Product Manager to build a Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability from the ground up in a hybrid role based in Cottage Grove, MN. You will own the strategy, backlog, and delivery coordination across business and technical teams.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years in product management, strong data ecosystem knowledge, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while partnering with architecture, security, legal, and platform teams to deliver secure,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, business product management, data product ownership, or technology product roles.
• Proven experience owning product roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, discovery, and delivery coordination.
• Strong understanding of data ecosystems, data movement, integrations, APIs, data pipelines, middleware, and system-to-system data sharing.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand objectives, pain points, data access needs, integration requirements, and emerging AI/data use cases.
• Translate unclear business requests into well-defined problems, outcomes, priorities, epics, features, and actionable requirements.
• Own backlog prioritization based on business value, scalability, dependencies, security, risk, and alignment to enterprise initiatives.
• Coordinate with architecture and technical teams to evaluate API strategies, integration patterns, data movement approaches, middleware needs, and reusable data access models.
• Coordinate delivery across cross-functional teams including engineering, data, application owners, integration teams, security, legal, platform teams, business analysts, and stakeholders.
• Serve as central point of accountability for what is built, why it matters, when it will be delivered, and how it meets business needs.
• Facilitate delivery activities such as intake, backlog refinement, sprint planning, stakeholder demos, roadmap reviews, and dependency management.
• Ensure solutions are secure, governed, scalable, reusable, and aligned with enterprise data architecture.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to both business and technical audiences.
• Build credibility with stakeholders and push back diplomatically when requests lack business value or timing.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Communication

Ambiguity navigation

Job description

Business Product Manager - Data Exchange (Data as a Service)

Hollstadt Consulting is a management and technology consulting firm dedicated to placing professionals at engagements where they will excel. When you work with us, you'll work with a refreshingly real company led and staffed by seasoned experts who are also down-to-earth, good people. We're committed to treating you with respect and helping you achieve your career aspirations. Since 1990, Hollstadt has been a trusted partner to more than 150 domestic and global companies and has successfully completed over 3,000 projects. Our continued growth has created challenging and rewarding opportunities for accomplished IT and Business Consultants. Hollstadt Consulting is an equal opportunity employer including disability/veteran.

Job Description

Role: Business Product Manager - Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service

Location: Hybrid in Cottage Grove, MN, 3 days onsite

Contract Duration: ASAP - 12/31/2026; extension or conversion likely

Rate: $65-$70/hour W2 depending on skills and qualifications

Travel: Minimal, less than 10%

Summary

We are seeking a Business Product Manager to help build a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability from the ground up. This person will own the product strategy, roadmap, backlog, prioritization, stakeholder discovery, and delivery coordination for secure, governed data-sharing solutions across business and technology teams. This is not a traditional reporting, dashboard, or analytics product role. The focus is on enabling business partners to access and consume trusted data through scalable integration patterns, APIs, data pipelines, and governed data-sharing capabilities. The ideal candidate is a strong product leader who can operate in ambiguity, influence without authority, work directly with business stakeholders to uncover real needs, and partner closely with architecture, engineering, security, legal, application, data, and platform teams to move work forward.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand objectives, pain points, data access needs, integration requirements, and emerging AI/data use cases.
• Translate unclear or broad business requests into well-defined problems, outcomes, priorities, epics, features, and actionable requirements.
• Own backlog prioritization based on business value, scalability, dependencies, security, risk, and alignment to broader enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with solution architecture and technical teams to evaluate API strategies, integration patterns, data movement approaches, middleware needs, event-driven concepts, and reusable data access models.
• Coordinate delivery across cross-functional teams, including engineering, data, application owners, integration teams, security, legal, platform teams, business analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the central point of accountability for what is being built, why it matters, when it will be delivered, and how it meets business needs.
• Facilitate delivery activities such as intake, backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization discussions, stakeholder demos, roadmap reviews, and dependency management.
• Ensure solutions are secure, governed, scalable, reusable, and aligned with enterprise data architecture.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to both business and technical audiences.
• Build credibility quickly with stakeholders of varying technical maturity and push back diplomatically when requests are not aligned to business value or timing.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, business product management, data product ownership, or technology product roles.
• Proven experience owning product roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, discovery, and delivery coordination.
• Strong understanding of data ecosystems, data movement, integrations, APIs, data pipelines, middleware, and system-to-system data sharing.
• Ability to work closely with solution architects and technical teams without needing to be hands-on engineering.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to uncover needs, define outcomes, and translate business problems into actionable product work.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Experience coordinating work across business, data, engineering, application, security, legal, and platform teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping build new processes, roadmaps, governance models, and product capabilities from scratch.
• Ability to balance customer service, business value, technical constraints, governance, security, and product discipline.
• Must be local to the Twin Cities area or able to work onsite in Cottage Grove, MN three days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Data-as-a-Service, data exchange, data products, enterprise integrations, API-based data sharing, or governed data access capabilities.
• Experience in organizations with distributed business units, franchise/dealer networks, retail operations, field operations, or complex stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with data governance, permissions, identity/access concepts, security review processes, and legal/compliance considerations related to data sharing.
• Experience supporting business teams that want to use enterprise data for AI, automation, operational reporting, or third-party system integration.
• Experience helping establish a new product function, product operating model, intake process, or prioritization framework.

Hollstadt offers medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and retirement benefits to eligible employees. With three different medical plans to choose from, you can enroll in the coverage you need from individual to family, or anywhere in between!

Remarketing Process

Hollstadt is based on retention and relationships. We get to know your strengths and career wishes throughout your assignment and then start remarket discussions 6-8 weeks prior to your end date. By being proactive, we are able to keep your down time between assignments as short as possible, unless you choose otherwise.

Professional Development

Hollstadt offers on-demand training through our consultant portal. Trainings give our consultants the continuing education they need to excel on their projects. Many of our courses apply towards continuing education credits and we have an entire training hub dedicated to upskilling in Artificial Intelligence (AI).

401k + Matching

One popular benefit is our 401(k) match on the first 4% of your contributions. Hollstadt wants to help you reach your long-term financial goals and understands that planning for your future is critical. Consultants also have access to support from a Financial Advisor.

We appreciate and reward loyalty

We appreciate and reward loyalty. Join Hollstadt, stay for 5 years, and we'll give you $5,000 Longevity Award bonus! Additionally, we know great talent knows other great talent. If you are on contract with Hollstadt and refer one of your connections who gets placed, we'll pay you $1,000!

Ongoing Support & Networking

We have made a significant investment in building a support program for our consultant team - so you never have to feel like you are going it alone. We also have a Consultant Coach program which acts like a 'work buddy' to provide a safe ear for questions or concerns at your client site.