Data Product Owner | Enterprise Data Platform Leader

LPL Financial; Fort Mill (SC); On-site; USD 109,000 - 182,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K matching

Health benefits

Employee stock options

Paid time off

Job summary

LPL Financial is seeking a Data Product Owner to drive consumption-facing data capabilities across enterprise applications, analytics, and reporting. You will shape product strategy, create multi-quarter roadmaps, and align stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You will translate business needs into data product initiatives, develop clear user stories, define data access patterns, and establish success metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Product Management, Product Ownership, Data Product Ownership, Product Analytics, Data Analysis, or platform-oriented roles.
• Experience defining product strategy, vision, roadmaps, priorities, and success measures.
• Strong hands-on experience with SQL, data analysis, source-to-target analysis, or analytical problem solving across distributed data environments.
• Experience working with data platforms, data distribution capabilities, APIs, feeds, reporting platforms, or shared enterprise data services.
• Experience operating in Agile/Scrum environments with cross-functional product, engineering, QA, architecture, and stakeholder teams.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmaps for consumption-facing data capabilities.
• Translate business outcomes, consumer needs, and enterprise data strategy into prioritized product initiatives.
• Establish product success measures, KPIs, and OKRs to evaluate adoption, reliability, usability, and business impact.
• Engage downstream consumers to gather requirements, identify pain points, and define data product use cases.
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, release objectives, and consumption requirements that are clear and testable.
• Define and support data access patterns through APIs, feeds, reporting platforms, extracts, and shared services.
• Prioritize and manage product backlogs, balancing strategic initiatives, consumer demand, operational needs, and delivery capacity.
• Partner with engineering, architecture, governance, and domain teams to deliver scalable and reusable data capabilities.
• Perform data analysis to understand usage patterns, source-to-target relationships, lineage, dependencies, and impacts.
• Conduct impact assessments for schema changes, new integrations, platform migrations, and upstream system modifications.
• Utilize SQL and analytical techniques to validate requirements, support decision-making, and identify solution options.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, demonstrations, testing, release readiness, and retrospectives.
• Manage risks, dependencies, and tradeoff decisions across stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Prepare and deliver roadmap updates, prioritization recommendations, and product communications for leadership and stakeholder audiences.
• Promote standardized data products, documentation, and consumption practices that improve discoverability, trust, and reuse.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Product management

Stakeholder engagement

Agile/Scrum

APIs

Data platforms

Tools

Reporting platforms

Data APIs

Job description

LPL Financial is seeking a Data Product Owner to drive consumption-facing data capabilities across enterprise applications, analytics, and reporting. You will shape product strategy, create multi-quarter roadmaps, and align stakeholders to deliver measurable business outcomes.

You will translate business needs into data product initiatives, develop clear user stories, define data access patterns, and establish success metrics.