Director, Product Management – Enterprise Data Platform

Sedgwick Claims Management Services Ltd; United States; On-site; USD 108,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k and matching

PTO

Disability and life insurance

Employee assistance

Flexible spending or health savings

Job summary

Sedgwick is seeking a Director, Product Management for the Enterprise Data Platform to define platform capabilities, governance, and a multi-year roadmap for data services powering OmniAnalyst and OmniInsights. You will translate business needs into technical requirements and drive cross-functional delivery with Data Engineering, Architecture, and Analytics teams.

The role requires 10+ years in product management/data platforms, strong SQL, and deep knowledge of modern data architectures, data

Qualifications

• 10+ years in product management/data platform/architecture roles with 5+ years in technical PM for data platforms.
• Hands-on Snowflake experience as a practitioner or product owner.
• Strong data architecture knowledge: warehousing, data mesh, medallion architecture, semantic modeling.
• Experience leading intake and prioritization for shared enterprise platforms.
• Experience with analytics, data science, and AI-enabled use cases preferred.
• Experience with semantic layers, metadata management, entity resolution, and governed data-sharing preferred.
• Experience in regulated industries preferred.

Responsibilities

• Define enterprise data foundation capabilities including governed data sharing and access controls.
• Define multi-year roadmap for the Snowflake-based platform and related data products.
• Own intake, prioritization, backlog management, and governance discussions for platform initiatives.
• Deliver platform enhancements by partnering with Data Engineering, Architecture, and Governance teams.
• Translate business requirements into technical specs, user stories, and acceptance criteria; validate with data solutions.

Skills

Enterprise data platform

Data modeling

SQL proficiency

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Executive influencing

Data governance

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or related field

Advanced degree

Snowflake certification

Tools

Snowflake

Job description

By joining Sedgwick, you'll be part of something truly meaningful. It’s what our 33,000 colleagues do every day for people around the world who are facing the unexpected. We invite you to grow your career with us, experience our caring culture, and enjoy work-life balance. Here, there’s no limit to what you can achieve.

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Director, Product Management – Enterprise Data Platform

Primary Purpose The Director, Product Management - Data Systems leads product strategy for our enterprise data foundation, including the Snowflake-based platform and supporting data systems that power OmniAnalyst, OmniInsights, and our broader data product ecosystem. Reporting to the Vice President of Data Product Management, this role defines the capabilities, governance, and roadmap needed to deliver scalable, secure, and trusted data products across the enterprise. As the product leader for the data platform, this individual serves as the primary intake and prioritization point for platform requests, aligns stakeholders across business and technology teams, and ensures the platform delivers business value while maintaining long‑term scalability, performance, and cost efficiency.

Essential Responsibilities

Define Platform Capabilities

Defines the capabilities required of the enterprise data foundation, including governed data sharing, access controls, entity resolution, semantic models, shared definitions, and data quality standards. Partners with Data Architecture and Data Engineering to design scalable, secure, and well‑governed platform capabilities aligned with enterprise standards. Champions modern data architecture practices, including data mesh and layered (medallion) architectures, to drive consistency and reusability across the enterprise. Establishes standards for semantic context, metadata, governance, and data design to ensure data is consistently understood by business users, analytics tools, and AI applications.

Set Vision & Roadmap for Data Systems

Defines and owns the vision and multi‑year roadmap for the enterprise data foundation, beginning with the Snowflake platform and evolving as business needs grow. Partners with Data Architecture leadership, business stakeholders, and internal data consumers to align platform investments with enterprise priorities. Collaborates with product leaders supporting OmniAnalyst, OmniInsights, and other data products to ensure platform capabilities meet downstream product needs. Establishes and monitors platform success measures, including data quality, availability, performance, adoption, operational efficiency, and cost optimization. Applies Product Operating Model principles to platform intake, prioritization, backlog management, and outcome measurement.

Intake, Prioritization & Platform Governance

Owns the intake and prioritization process for enterprise data platform initiatives, maintaining a transparent framework for evaluating business requests. Balances business value, urgency, risk, dependencies, effort, and cost when prioritizing platform investments and managing tradeoffs. Maintains a strategic backlog and facilitates stakeholder alignment through recurring prioritization forums and governance discussions. Identifies demand trends and opportunities for reusable platform capabilities that improve efficiency and scalability.

Drive Platform Delivery

Partners with Data Engineering, Data Architecture, Governance, and platform administration teams to deliver roadmap commitments and platform enhancements. Translates business requirements into technical product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for data models, pipelines, access patterns, and platform services. Leverages SQL and strong technical fluency to validate delivered solutions and ensure business requirements are met. Partners with Governance and FinOps teams to manage platform consumption, forecast costs, and promote cost‑effective platform growth. Ensures the platform supports analytics, data science, and AI workloads through strong data quality, lineage, governance, semantic context, and performance management. Establishes performance metrics, reporting, and documentation standards that support platform adoption, reliability, and continuous improvement.

Cross‑Functional Partnership & Stakeholder Engagement

Builds alignment across business, operations, technology, governance, security, privacy, and compliance stakeholders. Ensures appropriate platform controls are implemented and maintained, including role‑based access, masking policies, data classification, retention, lineage, and auditability. Communicates platform strategy, releases, priorities, and performance through executive reporting, documentation, and stakeholder engagement. Acts as a trusted advisor on data platform capabilities, governance requirements, and strategic opportunities. Maintains awareness of emerging Snowflake capabilities and modern data architecture trends to inform platform strategy.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related technical field required.
• Advanced degree a plus.
• Snowflake certification (e.g., SnowPro Core or SnowPro Advanced Architect) preferred.

Experience

• Ten (10) or more years of experience in product management, data platform, data engineering, or data architecture roles, including at least five (5) years in technical product management for data platforms.
• Hands‑on experience with Snowflake, either as a technical practitioner or product owner of a Snowflake‑based platform.
• Strong experience with modern data architecture concepts including data warehousing, data mesh, dimensional modeling, layered (medallion) architecture, semantic modeling, and ELT pipelines.
• Demonstrated success shaping data platform capabilities, influencing engineering direction, and partnering across business and technology teams.
• Experience leading intake and prioritization processes for shared enterprise platforms serving multiple business units.
• Experience supporting analytics, data science, and AI‑enabled use cases preferred.
• Experience with semantic layers, knowledge graphs, metadata management, entity resolution, master data management, or governed data‑sharing solutions preferred.
• Experience working in regulated industries preferred.

Skills & Knowledge

• Strong knowledge of enterprise data platform architecture, storage concepts, governance, performance optimization, and cost management.
• Expertise in data modeling, semantic modeling, metadata management, lineage, and data catalog concepts.
• Strong SQL proficiency with the ability to independently validate data solutions and review technical designs.
• Familiarity with Snowflake governance and administration concepts including RBAC, secure data sharing, access controls, and consumption management.
• Strong prioritization, stakeholder management, communication, and executive influencing skills.
• Understanding of how data quality, governance, and semantic context impact analytics and AI outcomes.
• Ability to lead through influence in highly matrixed environments while balancing business priorities, technical constraints, and long‑term platform health.
• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies and Product Operating Model practices.

Compensation & Benefits

As required by law, Sedgwick provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in jurisdictions requiring pay transparency in job postings. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and cost of specific location. For the jurisdiction noted in this job posting only, the range of starting pay for this role is (107,667.00 - 150,734.00 USD Annual).

• medical
• dental
• vision
• 401k and matching
• PTO
• disability and life insurance
• employee assistance
• flexible spending or health savings account
• other additional voluntary benefits

Sedgwick is an Equal Opportunity Employer and a Drug‑Free Workplace.

Sedgwick is building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace and recognizes that each person possesses a unique combination of skills, knowledge, and experience. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Sedgwick is the world’s leading risk and claims administration partner, which helps clients thrive by navigating the unexpected. The company’s expertise, combined with the most advanced AI‑enabled technology available, sets the standard for solutions in claims administration, loss adjusting, benefits administration, and product recall. With over 33,000 colleagues and 10,000 clients across 80 countries, Sedgwick provides unmatched perspective, caring that counts, and solutions for the rapidly changing and complex risk landscape. For more, see sedgwick.com