Forward-Deployed Product Manager: Data Platform Lead

Creative Chaos; Cincinnati (OH); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Chaos is seeking a Lead Forward-Deployed Product Manager to drive delivery on the ground. You will own stakeholder alignment, define data metrics, manage the technical backlog, and drive product adoption with executive leadership.

You will lead a dedicated pod of yourself and two engineers, collaborating with senior consulting partners on enterprise data platforms, including data warehouses and cloud data services. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, technical program management, or leading forward-deployed teams.
• Experience shipping data products on enterprise architectures (data warehouses, ERP, CRM, BI).
• Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering for complex enterprise software deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead a forward-deployed pod of two engineers and manage the backlog.
• Own day-to-day client relationship management and executive stakeholder alignment.
• Define metric definitions and data roll-ups; drive product adoption in executive reviews.
• Translate business goals into source-system queries, data tables, and feeds.
• Inform core platform roadmap by serving as feedback loop between client requirements and central product/engineering org.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Backlog prioritization

Agile delivery

Executive communication

Data-driven decision making

Tools

SQL

Snowflake

Data modeling

Job description

Creative Chaos is seeking a Lead Forward-Deployed Product Manager to drive delivery on the ground. You will own stakeholder alignment, define data metrics, manage the technical backlog, and drive product adoption with executive leadership.

You will lead a dedicated pod of yourself and two engineers, collaborating with senior consulting partners on enterprise data platforms, including data warehouses and cloud data services. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused leadership role.