Data Science Product Owner: Drive AI‑Powered Decisions

Toyota North America; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Team Member Vehicle Purchase Discount

Toyota Team Member Lease Vehicle Plan

Comprehensive health care and wellness

Job summary

Toyota Financial Services seeks a Data Science Product Owner to lead strategy, prioritization, and delivery of enterprise data science products across the organization. You will translate business needs into a clear product vision, partnering with data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to drive measurable business value.

You will own the backlog for data science initiatives, define success metrics, and ensure high-quality delivery with speed and impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years in product ownership, business analysis, analytics, or delivery coordination in a technical or data-driven environment.
• Experience with Agile frameworks and product backlog management.
• Experience using Jira, GitHub, Confluence, and similar collaboration tools.
• Experience with data science concepts such as model development, experimentation, deployment, and monitoring.
• Experience with SQL, Python, reporting, dashboards, or analytics tools.
• Ability to translate enterprise business needs into a clear product strategy and credible requirements for data scientists and ML engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own and maintain the backlog for data science products, use cases, and enhancements.
• Translate business goals into user stories, requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery priorities.
• Prioritize work based on value, feasibility, risk, and dependencies.
• Gather and document requirements for ML models, analytics, and automated decisioning.
• Ensure requirements capture data inputs, outputs, edge cases, rules, success measures, and best practices.
• Partner with stakeholders to define scope and align priorities.
• Support agile ceremonies, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and release readiness.
• Coordinate dependencies and manage blockers across teams.
• Define validation criteria and support testing of model performance and business fit.
• Monitor KPIs, experiment results, adoption, and business impact.

Skills

Agile frameworks

Product backlog management

Data science concepts

SQL

Python

Reporting tools

Analytics dashboards

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in related field

Tools

Jira

GitHub

Confluence

Job description

Toyota Financial Services seeks a Data Science Product Owner to lead strategy, prioritization, and delivery of enterprise data science products across the organization. You will translate business needs into a clear product vision, partnering with data scientists, engineers, and stakeholders to drive measurable business value.

You will own the backlog for data science initiatives, define success metrics, and ensure high-quality delivery with speed and impact.