Data Product Owner: Governance & AI-Enabled Data Assets

U.S. Bank; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 141,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

401(k) and retirement plan

Paid vacation

11 paid holidays

Parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to drive data product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and delivery within the Investment Services Data Domain.

This role liaises between business stakeholders, governance partners, and technology teams to translate needs into scalable, governed data products for reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases. The role covers full lifecycle management, with potential contribution to gold data products, cloud migration, and modernization

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience. Typically eight or more years of experience in data, analytics, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or related disciplines.
• Experience defining business requirements, user stories, product roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks.
• Experience working across business and technology organizations to deliver data, analytics, or technology solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead initiatives involving multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and complex business requirements.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing data products, analytics products, business intelligence solutions, or enterprise data initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data engineering, data modeling, reporting, analytics, and modern cloud data architectures.
• Experience with technologies such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, SQL Server, Postgres, or similar data platforms.
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, stewardship, and data-as-a-product principles.
• Experience defining product KPIs, adoption metrics, service levels, and business value realization measures.
• Experience operating within Agile product delivery environments and managing product backlogs.
• Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting modernization initiatives, including migration of data assets from on-premises to cloud environments.
• Experience supporting Investment Services, Fund Services, Custody, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, or other financial services organizations preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and priorities for assigned data products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise data strategy.
• Partner with business stakeholders to identify opportunities, gather requirements, and translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritized backlogs.
• Lead intake, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, balancing business value, strategic objectives, technical dependencies, risk considerations, and available delivery capacity.
• Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to design and deliver trusted, scalable, and reusable data products that support reporting, analytics, operational processes, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Champion data-as-a-product principles, including product ownership, discoverability, documentation, governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement, product performance monitoring, user feedback, and measurement of business outcomes.
• Support the development and evolution of governed "gold" data products that improve consistency, traceability, scalability, and reuse across business and technology teams.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, and consolidate data assets and reporting solutions, including support for cloud migration and enterprise data initiatives.
• Contribute to product design, prototyping, data analysis, or development activities when appropriate to accelerate delivery and establish foundational data capabilities.

Skills

Business requirements

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Data products

Data warehousing

Data platforms

Data governance

KPIs

Agile

Cloud migration

Financial services

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Tools

Snowflake

Databricks

Azure

SQL Server

Postgres

Job description

U.S. Bank is seeking an experienced Data Product Owner to drive data product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, and delivery within the Investment Services Data Domain.

This role liaises between business stakeholders, governance partners, and technology teams to translate needs into scalable, governed data products for reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled use cases. The role covers full lifecycle management, with potential contribution to gold data products, cloud migration, and modernization