Data Product Manager – Platform & Analytics

84.51 Centre; North Olmsted (OH); Hybrid; USD 77,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

401(k) with match

Paid time off

Job summary

84.51° is a retail data science and media company. We seek an early‑career product professional who helps shape data products and outcomes, partnering with Kroger and clients to drive measurable value.

You’ll translate business needs into features and reusable data capabilities, contributing to a clear product vision and roadmap. You will work across business, clients, and product teams to prioritize work, define acceptance criteria, and ensure data quality and usability.

Qualifications

• 0–2 years of relevant experience, including internships, academic projects, or equivalent experience.
• Developing strategic and critical thinking skills.
• Visual communication and storytelling.
• Ability to work through ambiguity and changing priorities.
• Creative problem-solving and curiosity.
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills.
• Emerging leadership skills and the ability to motivate others through shared purpose.
• Developing business acumen and an interest in connecting product work to measurable outcomes.
• Understanding of customer value propositions and basic product positioning.
• Familiarity with customer research methods and a willingness to learn through direct user engagement.
• Familiarity with data and analysis, including basic concepts such as data quality, metadata, documentation, lineage, ownership, and discoverability.
• Exposure to developing or supporting software, platform, analytics, or data products in an agile environment with cross‑functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Contributes to product portfolio strategy that balances business need, customer value, opportunity, feasibility, and achievability.
• Uses analytics, research, customer feedback, and product data to support product team decisions.
• Reframes business needs into product solutions and reusable data capabilities.
• Contributes to a shared understanding of product vision and strategy across business, clients, stakeholders, and product teams.
• Drives business value for the team by helping prioritize and order product backlog items based on the product roadmap.
• Supports effective management of the team's product backlog and helps ensure it is transparent, visible, and clearly communicated.
• Translates business needs and requirements into effective features and stories that are ready for development.
• Outlines clear acceptance criteria to communicate the definition of done, including relevant data quality and usability expectations.

Skills

Product thinking

Analytical skills

Collaboration

Communication

Stakeholder management

Job description

84.51° is a retail data science and media company. We seek an early‑career product professional who helps shape data products and outcomes, partnering with Kroger and clients to drive measurable value.

You’ll translate business needs into features and reusable data capabilities, contributing to a clear product vision and roadmap. You will work across business, clients, and product teams to prioritize work, define acceptance criteria, and ensure data quality and usability.