Data Product Manager - Platforms & Analytics

Jobtailor; Saint Paul (MN); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Saint Paul, MN is seeking a Data Product Manager to lead data platforms, analytics tools, and ML infrastructure. You will identify high-value opportunities, align strategy with long‑term data architecture, and connect capabilities to business outcomes.

You will drive end‑to‑end lifecycle, collaborate with data engineers and scientists, and ensure governance, quality, and regulatory compliance while communicating value to leadership.

Qualifications

• 4–7+ years leading data management, analytics, or data engineering products.
• Proven ability to lead in ambiguity and align teams to a shared data strategy.
• Strong understanding of pipelines, warehousing, modeling, and governance.
• Experience working with data architecture, data engineering, and data science teams.
• Ability to translate complex tech concepts into business terms.
• Excellent communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management.
• Experience with analytics tools: dbt, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics.
• Familiarity with data-sharing constraints, compliance, and ethics in data use.
• Proven track record building internal platforms or developer-facing products.

Responsibilities

• Define the vision and roadmap for data products such as data platforms, analytics tools, and ML infrastructure
• Identify high-value opportunities by investigating the data landscape, pain points, and business needs
• Align data product strategy with organizational priorities and long‑term data architecture
• Connect data capabilities to business outcomes and organize efforts to achieve those outcomes
• Align engineering, analytics, and business teams
• Use metrics to guide prioritization and product evolution
• Lead the end‑to‑end lifecycle of data products, including requirements, design, development, testing, launch, and iteration
• Partner with data engineers and data scientists to build scalable pipelines, models, and data services
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, documentation, reliability, and scalability standards are met
• Translate business logic into data transformations, metadata, and domain‑specific rules
• Serve as the primary liaison between technical teams and business partners
• Communicate product value, roadmap, and use cases to leadership and cross‑functional teams
• Prioritize incoming requests and balance competing needs across teams
• Define success metrics and measure product performance and adoption
• Ensure data products deliver actionable insights and support decision making
• Partner with analytics teams to design dashboards, KPIs, and reporting frameworks
• Uphold data governance, privacy, and ethical AI standards
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational data policies
• Advocate for responsible data use across the human services space
• Provide knowledge transfer

Skills

Data product management

Cross-functional leadership

Data governance

Analytics tooling

SQL & ETL

Databricks

Python & Java

Stakeholder management

Ambiguity tolerance

Tools

Dbt

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Google Analytics

Job description

Jobtailor in Saint Paul, MN is seeking a Data Product Manager to lead data platforms, analytics tools, and ML infrastructure. You will identify high-value opportunities, align strategy with long‑term data architecture, and connect capabilities to business outcomes.

You will drive end‑to‑end lifecycle, collaborate with data engineers and scientists, and ensure governance, quality, and regulatory compliance while communicating value to leadership.