Senior Data Product Manager, Enterprise Data Platforms

Skydance; Burbank (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 166,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Generous PTO

Streaming service subscriptions

Engagement programs

Job summary

Skydance's Applied Intelligence team seeks a Senior Data Product Manager to guide strategy and execution for enterprise data platforms. You will bridge Data Engineering and Software Engineering to define, prioritize, and scale reliable data systems, owning the data lifecycle from ingestion to delivery and SLAs.

You will lead architecture discussions, set data standards, and drive KPIs across pipelines to ensure real-time, AI/ML readiness and cost efficiency, reporting value to executives and

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience with ownership of data platforms, infrastructure, or analytics systems.
• Experience delivering large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives with backlogs.
• Solid knowledge of modern data architectures and ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience with streaming/event-driven architectures and APIs/microservices.
• Ability to define measurable KPIs and drive program management for technical platforms.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with technical and executive audiences.
• Interest in building reliable, production-grade data systems delivering measurable impact.
• Experience with AI/ML feature engineering pipelines and data governance.

Responsibilities

• Define and guide the roadmap for scalable data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving platforms.
• Prioritize initiatives to improve data reliability, quality, performance, and cost efficiency.
• Set a clear product vision for data assets, APIs, and self-service capabilities.
• Define data production standards, SLAs, freshness targets, quality thresholds, and availability metrics.
• Partner with Data Engineers and Software Engineers on architecture, pipelines, API contracts, and data access patterns.
• Establish intake, prioritization, and delivery frameworks with KPIs for pipeline health, adoption, reliability, and latency.
• Coordinate planning cycles for data platform investments and address technical debt and scalability risks.
• Translate complex business requirements into scalable product requirements and participate in design reviews.
• Communicate platform capabilities, roadmap sequencing, and constraints; report on business value delivered.

Skills

Data platforms

Cross-functional leadership

Product management

Data architectures

KPIs & program management

Executive communication

AI/ML data pipelines

Real-time data systems

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

APIs

Microservices

ETL/ELT

Data lakes

Data warehouses

Lakehouse

Job description

Skydance's Applied Intelligence team seeks a Senior Data Product Manager to guide strategy and execution for enterprise data platforms. You will bridge Data Engineering and Software Engineering to define, prioritize, and scale reliable data systems, owning the data lifecycle from ingestion to delivery and SLAs.

You will lead architecture discussions, set data standards, and drive KPIs across pipelines to ensure real-time, AI/ML readiness and cost efficiency, reporting value to executives and