MDM Product Owner (SQL)

Gartner, Inc.; Irving (TX); Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 118,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Flexible work from home

PTO and holidays

Medical, dental and vision insurance

401K with match

Wellness allowance

Parental leave

Tuition reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Employee Assistance Program

Gartner Gives Charity Match

Job summary

Gartner, Inc. is seeking an experienced Product Owner for Master Data Management within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. You will guide engineering teams, prioritize the backlog and drive data-domain initiatives across enterprise/customer data domains.

The role requires strong product management, SQL ability, and Agile experience to align business goals with technology delivery, while collaborating with stakeholders and QA to ensure quality and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience.
• Experience managing multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Excellent requirements gathering and stakeholder facilitation skills.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and strategic thinking abilities.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain alignment on the product vision, roadmap and strategy with stakeholders.
• Translate problems and needs into user stories with clear acceptance criteria.
• Develop understanding of goals to inform priorities and improvements with business teams.
• Engage cross-functionally with stakeholders, architects and development teams to build capabilities.
• Analyze data quality and derive insights to increase business value.
• Lead backlog refinement to keep a prioritized backlog of features.
• Continuously refine backlog items balancing value, feasibility and dependencies.
• Support scrum master and development teams to navigate roadblocks.
• Collaborate with QA to review test scenarios and acceptance criteria.
• Maintain documentation on shared file systems.

Skills

Product management

Backlog management

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

SQL proficiency

Job description

About this role:

Gartner is seeking an experienced Product Owner for Master Data Management within the Chief Data and Analytics Office. Product Owners serve as the voice of the customer and product team to guide engineering teams in building product capabilities with highest business needs and priorities, prioritize and manage the product backlog and incorporate feedback from business stakeholders to guide continuous product improvement. This role will be a Product Owner for Gartner’s Enterprise/Account customer data domains supporting process improvements, data management and execution of large- and small-scale initiatives.

What you’ll do:

• Define and maintain alignment on the product vision, roadmap and strategy in collaboration with stakeholders
• Translate problem statements, customer needs and solution hypotheses into user stories or other forms of requirements, ensuring clear acceptance criteria and measurable success metrics
• Develop a deep understanding of business goals and processes to inform product priorities and improvement recommendations through strong relationships with stakeholders across the business
• Engage cross-functionally with stakeholders, technical architects and development teams to develop capabilities and solutions to meet business requirements and achieve desired business outcomes
• Analyze data quality and curate insights to drive requirements to increase business value
• Lead backlog refinement sessions to maintain a consistently up-to-date, prioritized backlog of clearly defined features/stories
• Continuously refine and prioritize backlog items, balancing business value, technical feasibility and long-term product strategy while managing dependencies across teams
• Support scrum master and development teams to navigate through development roadblocks
• Collaborate with QA teams in reviewing test scenarios to ensure acceptance criteria are met and sign off on product design
• Ensure quality through adherence to and supporting processes and procedures, including the maintenance of documentation on shared file systems

What you’ll need:

• 5+ years of Product management experience with demonstrated success in defining, building and maintaining products
• Successful demonstration of managing multiple projects/products and deadlines simultaneously in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Excellent requirements gathering, stakeholder management and meeting facilitation skills
• Solid analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills
• Strong SQL skills and basic understanding of data analysis tools and techniques
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Excellent communication and collaboration with the ability to present complex topics in a condensed manner to various stakeholders, including senior leaders

What you’ll receive:

• Competitive compensation.
• Limitless growth and learning opportunities.
• A collaborative and positive culture - join a diverse team of professionals that are as smart and driven as you.
• A chance to make an impact - your work will contribute directly to our strategy.
• Enjoy the flexibility of working from home and the energy of collaborating with peers in our dynamic offices.
• 20+ PTO days plus holidays and floating holidays in your first year.
• Extensive medical, dental insurance and vision plan.
• 401K with corporate match, immediate vesting.
• Health-and-wellness-related allowance programs.
• Parental leave.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Gartner Gives Charity Match.
• And much more!

What are we:

Action Oriented - Deliver fast, get great results. We embrace the vision, roadmap to success and the action it takes to make it happen. Intellectually Curious - Seek to learn, love to teach. We’re humble and embrace respectful, radical candor with a mindset of ongoing professional and personal development. Collaborative - One team, shared mission. We welcome feedback and understand the value of working together to accomplish more than what is possible individually.

Who are we?

At Gartner, Inc. (NYSE:IT), we guide the leaders who shape the world. Our mission relies on expert analysis and bold ideas to deliver actionable, objective business and technology insights, helping enterprise leaders and their teams succeed with their mission-critical priorities. Since our founding in 1979, we’ve grown to 20,000 associates globally who support over 13,000 client enterprises in ~90 countries and territories. We do important, interesting and substantive work that matters. That's why we hire associates with the intellectual curiosity, energy and drive to want to make a difference. The bar is unapologetically high. So is the impact you can have here.

What makes Gartner a great place to work?

Our vast, virtually untapped market potential offers limitless opportunities - opportunities that may not even exist right now - for you to grow professionally and flourish personally. How far you go is driven by your passion and performance. We hire remarkable people who collaborate and win as a team. Together, our singular, unifying goal is to deliver results for our clients. Our teams are inclusive and composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities and generations. We invest in great leaders who bring out the best in you and the company, enabling us to multiply our impact and results. This is why, year after year, we are recognized worldwide as a great place to work.

Gartner is the world authority on AI

At Gartner, you’ll join a company at the very center of the AI revolution. Gartner has proactive, objective guidance throughout clients’ AI journeys. We set the standard for how organizations leverage artificial intelligence to drive meaningful impact. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, expertise, and technology, and play a key role in helping Gartner and our clients innovate and grow as we leverage AI to transform business and technology landscapes. Its an exciting time to be at Gartner, with limitless opportunities to make a real impact, grow your skills, and build a lasting, meaningful career in a field that’s reshaping the way we operate. If you’re passionate about AI and want to be part of a team that’s guiding the leaders who shape the world, Gartner is the place for you.

What do we offer?

Gartner offers world-class benefits, highly competitive compensation and disproportionate rewards for top performers. In our hybrid work environment, we provide the flexibility and support for you to thrive - working virtually when it's productive to do so and getting together with colleagues in a vibrant community that is purposeful, engaging and inspiring.

Salary and Compensation

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range for this role is 86,000 USD - 118,000 USD. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range, or be above or below the range, based on factors including, but not limited to, education, training, experience, professional achievement, business need, and location. In addition to base salary, employees will participate in either an annual bonus plan based on company and individual performance, or a role-based, uncapped sales incentive plan. Our talent acquisition team will provide the specific opportunity on our bonus or incentive programs to eligible candidates. We also offer market leading benefit programs including generous PTO, a 401k match up to $7,200 per year, the opportunity to purchase company stock at a discount, and more. The policy of Gartner is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, citizenship status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status and to seek to advance the principles of equal employment opportunity. Gartner is committed to being an Equal Opportunity Employer and offers opportunities to all job seekers, including job seekers with disabilities. If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran, you may request a reasonable accommodation if you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access the Company’s career webpage as a result of your disability. You may request reasonable accommodations by calling Human Resources at [phone] or by sending an email to [e-mail].