Onsite Data Products Program Lead (Contract-to-Hire)

CooperVision Limited; Town of Victor (NY); On-site; USD 121,000 - 162,000; Full time

Job summary

CooperVision Limited in Victor, NY is seeking a Data Products Program Lead (Contract to Hire). This role combines program management with deep data-product delivery responsibilities to drive EDU data products from definition through release and adoption.

You will translate roadmaps into releases, orchestrate domain SMEs, own release notes and customer definitions, manage budgets, risks and KPIs, and build the operating-model evidence pack for decision-making by month 18. Onsite travel <20%.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in program or technical program management, with at least 3 years leading enterprise data, MDM or data-platform programs.
• Has stood up a data product or data governance program from the start: defined the products, ownership model, intake and release process, and delivered them.
• Demonstrated delivery of large, cross-functional initiatives with hard dependencies on other programs and on IT platform work.
• Experience transitioning or consolidating master and transactional data between systems (e.g., CRM or ERP migrations, MDM implementations, registry builds).
• Worked directly with data architects and system architects on logical and semantic design, and with data science teams consuming the output.
• Experience driving organizational adoption of new data products or operating models, including readiness and communication planning.
• Track record of setting, measuring and reporting program KPIs under a corporate PMO framework.
• Medical device, life sciences or regulated-industry experience, and exposure to product data and customer data domains, are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Translate the EDU roadmap and quarterly milestones set by the program drivers into releases with defined scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria and KPIs.
• Build and maintain the integrated program plan and schedule, including dependencies on other programs.
• Report plans, resources, risks, dependencies and KPIs into Global PMO oversight in the standard format and cadence; no parallel tracking.
• Prepare steering-group and Program Director packs; track decisions, actions and commitments through to closure.
• Identify schedule slippage early, propose recovery plans and elevate to the program drivers or steering group as needed.
• Run the program budget line (program management contract, T&E, validation and assessment spend) with the cost-center owner.
• Own the delivery lifecycle of each data product: definition, attribute scope, source mapping, semantic rules, build acceptance, release and versioning.
• Ensure each product has a named owner, named registered consumers and DATSIS defined before release; publish release notes and catalogue entries.
• Work with the Data Products Delivery Lead and system architects on registry-first MDM in phase one (identity registry plus consolidated golden views in the aggregation layer) and on the semantic layer the products expose.
• Keep the data science team's AI use cases on the product release path, so each AI use case is built on a released product and not on a side extract.
• Protect the layered architecture: products are built at or above the compute boundary and exposed through APIs and agent protocols, not inside transactional systems.
• Act as the integration point across the four transactional-layer domains (Product Lifecycle & Compliance; Order-to-Cash & Supply Chain; Commercial Engagement; Corporate Functions) and the IT delivery team.
• Convene the BPA/SMEs nominated by BPMT VPs per domain and the BSA/SMEs nominated by BPO VPs per IT system, and run them as the Core Team per project.
• Surface cross-domain semantic conflicts and route them to the semantic council for decision; implement the decisions in product definitions.
• Identify and manage interdependencies with Program Nexus, Courtyard and other consumer programs; make sure plans stay aligned.
• Run intake for registered consumers: capture required attributes, agree acceptance criteria, sequence MVP scope and v1 release to all registered consumers.
• Develop and run readiness, communication and adoption plans for consuming teams, including regional data and BI leads.
• Track adoption and usage of released products and feed consumption evidence back into prioritization.
• Support transition of released products into business-as-usual ownership and stewardship.
• Codify the ways of working the program establishes: intake, standards, stewardship, council decision rights, release process.
• Capture lessons learned and operating-model findings at each quarterly milestone and compile the evidence pack for the operating-model decision.
• Contribute to the north-star validation and the facilitated distance-to-north-star assessment as program representative.
• Travel Requirements: Less than 20% travel. Occasional attendance at domain workshops, steering-group sessions and offsite meetings, including the UK (Delta Park / Vision Centre) and Victor, NY.

Job description

CooperVision Limited in Victor, NY is seeking a Data Products Program Lead (Contract to Hire). This role combines program management with deep data-product delivery responsibilities to drive EDU data products from definition through release and adoption.

You will translate roadmaps into releases, orchestrate domain SMEs, own release notes and customer definitions, manage budgets, risks and KPIs, and build the operating-model evidence pack for decision-making by month 18. Onsite travel <20%.