Principal Data Product Lead — AI-Driven Data Catalog

Apolloio; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Apollo.io is seeking a Product leader to own the core data catalog and guide data health, telemetry, and governance across the product stack. You will drive strategy for data sources, enrichment, and surface integration, influencing GTM and engineering outcomes.

You will prototype using AI-native tools, align cross-functional teams, and ensure data accuracy and trust for customers worldwide. This role emphasizes strategic impact and hands-on execution in a fast-moving SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management experience in data-centric product areas.
• Experience shipping complex data catalogs or data platforms.
• Strong data governance and privacy awareness.

Responsibilities

• Get close to customers, GTM teams, Support, and internal users to understand where Apollo’s data has gaps and accuracy or usability issues.
• Set product strategy for an always-on motion for upleveling our native data catalog with new data sources.
• Set product strategy for how Apollo’s data shows up across the product and in customer systems: enrichment, search and filters, scoring, and the taxonomy and data structure that make the catalog usable at every surface.
• Prototype quickly using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, Figma AI, and other AI-native workflows to validate ideas before scaling investment.
• Turn complex data pipelines into simple, trustworthy customer experiences across coverage, accuracy, freshness, confidence scoring, enrichment waterfalls, and data provenance.
• Lead build vs. buy vs. partner decisions for data sources, evaluating vendors on coverage, accuracy, freshness, cost, and compliance, and owning the business case for each.
• Partner closely with Engineering on architecture, reliability, observability, APIs, data models, and edge cases while staying anchored in customer and business outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Data catalog

Data governance

AI-native prototyping

Roadmap strategy

Tools

Claude Code

Cursor

Lovable

Figma AI

Job description

Apollo.io is seeking a Product leader to own the core data catalog and guide data health, telemetry, and governance across the product stack. You will drive strategy for data sources, enrichment, and surface integration, influencing GTM and engineering outcomes.

You will prototype using AI-native tools, align cross-functional teams, and ensure data accuracy and trust for customers worldwide. This role emphasizes strategic impact and hands-on execution in a fast-moving SaaS environment.