Senior Data Platform Product Manager - Strategy & Delivery

Vanguard; Malvern (Chester County); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard in Malvern, PA seeks a data platform product leader to own the product vision and strategy across incubation to sunset. You will drive customer-centric ideation, work with data engineers, architects, and scientists, and collaborate with CTO-aligned teams to prioritize features and roadmaps.

This role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and delivering measurable value through data services. A strong emphasis on governance, metrics, and cross-functional coordination is required.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.

Responsibilities

• Full product lifecycle ownership: Own the product vision and strategy of Vanguard's data platforms from incubation to sunset, in alignment with Vanguard's enterprise data strategy and target state architecture.
• Customer-centric product ideation: Monitor market trends and conduct user research to identify opportunities that will define data platform products and product features.
• Collaborate across divisions with our users to define data products that meet their critical data and business needs.
• Foster a culture of experimentation through MVPs, rapid prototyping, and iterative development, encouraging bold thinking while maintaining a strong bias for execution and learning.
• Translate insights into actionable and prioritized product features.
• Product delivery through innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop and maintain a transparent, outcomes-based roadmap and backlog, partnering with architecture and engineering under the CTO.
• Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to co-create the right features, often leading technical discussions with a deep understanding of data platforms and technologies.
• Conduct usability testing and experimentation to ensure platform features meet user needs.
• Manage product launches, coordinating with project managers for on-time and on-budget releases.
• Define and monitor key product metrics and analyze product performance to continually improve and drive value, inform roadmap and investment decisions, and measure success.

Education

Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.

Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.

Job description

Vanguard in Malvern, PA seeks a data platform product leader to own the product vision and strategy across incubation to sunset. You will drive customer-centric ideation, work with data engineers, architects, and scientists, and collaborate with CTO-aligned teams to prioritize features and roadmaps.

This role emphasizes experimentation, rapid prototyping, and delivering measurable value through data services. A strong emphasis on governance, metrics, and cross-functional coordination is required.