Director, Data Products & Strategy

Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits in the United States seeks a Director, Data Products Lead to guide the Market Intelligence Data Product team. You will own data governance, strategy, and the end-to-end lifecycle of foundational data used in SGWS products and services.

You will partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to ensure data is fit for purpose and governed with quality standards, while driving data-driven decisions across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a related field.
• 10+ years of relevant experience in a complex data environment and with data as a product.
• Solid understanding of data governance frameworks.
• Solid understanding of data analysis approaches used to drive decisions.
• Demonstrated proficiency with Jira and agile software development methods.

Responsibilities

• Own complex datasets and partner with stakeholders and software development teams using Agile methodologies to ensure data is fit for purpose and aligned to business needs.
• Develop and communicate data product roadmaps, translating priorities and progress for diverse stakeholder audiences.
• Implement and maintain data governance practices, including data access, cataloging, modeling, metadata, legislative considerations, and documentation.
• Maintain proactive verbal and written communication to convey data vision, roadmap, risks, and progress while selecting the right tools to manage delivery cadence and build cross-functional alignment.
• Apply technical and analytical judgment to evaluate data, interpret findings, and support data-driven decisions.
• Collaborate with technical teams to optimize data architecture, ensuring efficient data integration, transformation, and delivery processes while maintaining security and compliance standards.
• Collaboration and Communication: Collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, analysts, engineers, designers, and other product leads. Translate requirements between these groups and ensure alignment with the data product vision.
• Conflict Resolution: Handle conflicts and differing opinions effectively by creating alignment and visibility across various teams and departments.
• Data-Driven Approach: Define KPIs and success metrics for data products with instrumentation to measure impact.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Bridge data team and business units to understand needs and deliver solutions.
• Train and mentor team members to develop their skills in data product management and analytics.

Skills

Data governance

Data analysis

Agile software

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Communication

Mentoring

Statistical modeling

Data modeling

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in related field

Tools

JIRA

AWS SageMaker

Databricks

Posit Workbench/Connect

Shiny

Dash

Streamlit

Bokeh

Job description

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits in the United States seeks a Director, Data Products Lead to guide the Market Intelligence Data Product team. You will own data governance, strategy, and the end-to-end lifecycle of foundational data used in SGWS products and services.

You will partner with Product, Technology, and Commercial teams to ensure data is fit for purpose and governed with quality standards, while driving data-driven decisions across the organization.