Manager, Data Product Management

UL, LLC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus (20% of base salary)

Health benefits (medical, dental, vision)

Paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick time)

Job summary

UL, LLC seeks a strategic leader within the Global Data & Analytics organization to manage data product portfolios. This role involves guiding a high-performing team of Data Product Owners in delivering impactful data products aligned with business goals.

The leader will focus on translating business needs into product strategies while ensuring cross-functional collaboration and high-quality product delivery. The estimated salary is between $130,000 and $180,000, along with comprehensive health benefits and a 20% annual bonus target.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data, analytics, or product management roles.
• 3+ years of experience managing product owners or analysts.
• Proven experience defining and executing data product strategy and roadmaps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of Data Product Owners.
• Define and oversee the vision and strategy for data products.
• Align product roadmaps with enterprise priorities and technology direction.

Skills

Leadership

Data product management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field

Tools

Cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure)

BI/analytics tools

Job description

Serves as a key leader within the Global Data & Analytics organization, responsible for building, coaching, and guiding a high‑performing team of Data Product Owners to deliver scalable, high‑impact data and analytics products. This role plays a critical part in shaping how the organization translates data into business value—owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data products in close partnership with business and IT leaders. The manager drives alignment between enterprise priorities and product delivery, ensuring teams focus on the highest‑value outcomes and deliver measurable impact.

As a strategic leader, this role oversees the end‑to‑end data product portfolio, balancing competing priorities, investments, and dependencies across a global landscape. They enable consistent, high‑quality execution by establishing strong product management practices, clear backlogs, and outcome‑based success measures, while removing barriers and resolving cross‑functional challenges. The role is central to driving adoption, usability, and business value from data products, and ensures tight collaboration across business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and governance teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Data Product Owners responsible for defining, prioritizing, and advancing data and analytics products.
• Define and oversee the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data and analytics products in partnership with business and IT leaders.
• Ensure data product roadmaps align with enterprise priorities, business strategy, and technology direction.
• Guide product teams in translating business needs into clearly defined capabilities, release plans, and outcome‑based priorities.
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand priorities, pain points, and opportunities, and facilitate ideation and discovery for new and enhanced data products.
• Oversee the data product portfolio, including intake, evaluation, prioritization, sequencing, and investment planning across competing priorities and dependencies.
• Work closely with engineering, architecture, analytics, and data governance teams to ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned to strategic goals.
• Ensure Data Product Owners maintain high‑quality backlogs, business cases, success measures, and release plans.
• Remove barriers and resolve cross‑functional issues that impact product delivery, adoption, or value realization.
• Define and monitor key performance measures for data products, including adoption, business impact, usability, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in data, analytics, or product management roles, including delivery of data products such as dashboards, semantic models, and data platforms that drive business value.
• 3+ years of people leadership experience managing product owners, analysts, or data professionals, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high‑performing teams.
• Proven experience defining and executing data product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization, aligning to business goals and enterprise data strategy.
• Strong ability to translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, capabilities, and outcome‑based delivery plans.
• Experience managing a portfolio of data and analytics products, including intake, prioritization, dependency management, and investment planning.
• Solid understanding of modern data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Azure), data modeling concepts, and BI/analytics tools.
• Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and master data management practices to ensure trusted and compliant data products.
• Experience working within Agile delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, and cross‑functional collaboration.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence business and IT leaders and drive alignment across global teams.
• Proven ability to define and track product success metrics such as adoption, business impact, usability, and quality.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

Total Rewards

The estimated salary range for this position is $130,000 to $180,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job‑related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full‑time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

Equal Opportunity

UL LLC has been and will continue to be an equal opportunity employer. To assure full implementation of this equal employment policy, we will take steps to assure that:

Persons are recruited, hired, assigned and promoted without regard to race, color, age, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, religion, creed, national origin, ethnicity, citizenship, ancestry, disability, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy, marital or familial status, or any other protected category under applicable law.