Data Product Owner

Koch; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Koch is seeking a Data Product Owner to manage and enhance Koch Finance Data Assets. This role involves leading data management initiatives, ensuring quality data products, and collaborating with various teams to drive data-driven strategies. The ideal candidate will have strong technical skills and experience in product leadership, with a focus on transforming finance through data.

Qualifications

• Experience in data delivery and analytics.
• Experience in product or project leadership.
• Experience working in complex financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and promote data asset management initiatives.
• Develop and enforce a data governance model.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand data needs.

Skills

Data Delivery

Analytics

Leadership

Problem Solving

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Your Job Koch is hiring a Data Product Owner to safeguard and maximize the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. We are looking for a contribution motivated individual with a strong technical acumen, creative problem-solving skills, and experience leading complex initiatives across multiple teams to help deliver valuable tax data products, partner with leaders to understand data needs and support the business's data-driven initiatives.

Our Team

The DMET (Data Management, Enablement and Transformation) team is focused on developing a long-term sustainable capability utilizing data and technology to transform finance. This includes a diverse group with multiple teams focused on data platform technologies, specific data products, and transformation with an emphasis on data security. Our strategy will empower the finance and tax organizations to create superior value while consuming fewer resources, unlocking analytical capabilities, mitigating risk, and meeting ever-changing regulatory requirements.

What You Will Do

1. Enterprise level role with the accountability of safeguarding and maximizing the current and future value of Koch Finance Data Assets. This role will be leading and promoting data asset management initiatives.
2. Own the Finance Data Products that align with the broader Koch data vision and strategies.
3. Ensure quality data products including easily reusable, readily available, easy to replicate or combine, highly transferable, and high quality.
4. Maintain a sound security model with active management of access controls.
5. Develop and enforce a data governance model that protects data assets while allowing growth and transformation, collaborating with the Data Governance team for continuous improvement.
6. Partner with Data Delivery and Data Program teams to deliver valuable Finance Data Products to the KII Leveraged Capabilities and Koch businesses.
7. Collaborate with Capability leaders and stakeholders to understand data needs, adapt to changing requirements, articulate tax data needs, and drive cross-capability delivery and product adoption through appropriate change management channels.
8. Work with Tax Transformation groups to understand business needs and enable tax process transformation through data products.
9. Develop and manage team agile backlog and roadmap.
10. Lead and mentor team members to focus on priorities that drive the highest value for the product.
11. This role specifically manages and supports data products within Tax Transformation initiatives.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience in data delivery and analytics, technical, or business relevant functions.
• Experience in product or project leadership.
• Experience building business knowledge through meaningful partnerships at individual contributor and leadership levels.
• Experience in identifying and resolving data and process discrepancies, anomalies, root cause analysis, and solution implementation.
• Experience communicating and presenting to all organizational levels.
• Experience working in complex financial systems.
• Ability to prioritize, manage, and influence multiple teams towards a common goal.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with global tax reporting or compliance.
• Experience with Azure DevOps for product or project management.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to draw connections across systems to promote data consistency and reuse.
• Deep curiosity and proactive approach to addressing metadata and data quality issues at the source.
• Leadership or participation experience in Agile teams.
• Intermediate understanding of data development lifecycle and management principles (ETL/ELT, SDLC, metadata, data quality).

At Koch, we value diversity, challenge the status quo, and reward individual contributions. Compensation varies based on candidate qualifications and location. We are committed to an inclusive hiring process and a supportive work environment.