Senior Director, Data Product Management

Publicis Groupe; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 132,800 - 246,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible time off

Paid sick time

Parental leave

Comprehensive health coverage

401(k) plan

Tuition assistance

Commuter benefits

Professional development programs

Employee recognition programs

Charitable donation matching

Job summary

Publicis Groupe is seeking a Senior Director of Product Management to lead and innovate data products. This role requires crafting a clear product vision and data roadmap to fulfill market demands, while mentoring a skilled product team.

The ideal candidate will have over 12 years of experience in product management for complex data solutions, strong people leadership skills, and the ability to marry client needs with innovation.

The position offers a competitive salary between $132,800 and $246,600 annually, along with comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management and data products.
• Strong leadership skills in managing and developing product teams.
• Ability to translate client needs into effective product strategies.

Responsibilities

• Define and lead product vision and data roadmap.
• Coach and develop product management team.
• Translate complex client needs into product strategy.
• Ensure strong stakeholder communication and accountability.
• Drive alignment across multiple teams for product execution.

Skills

Product management

Data product development

People leadership

Technical fluency

Client relationship management

Education

12+ years in relevant roles

Job description

Overview

The Senior Director of Product Management will define and lead the creation of differentiated data products that do not exist in the marketplace, solving complex client problems in new and innovative ways. This role owns the product vision and data roadmap for emerging data capabilities, identifying unmet client needs and translating them into scalable, market‑leading products. The role works directly with data vendors and internal teams to shape how data is sourced, structured, and productized to support clearly defined client and sales use cases. Deep technical fluency is required to write detailed requirements for data ingestion and design products that can support analytics, activation, and decisioning at scale. This leader maintains a comprehensive understanding of Epsilon’s data assets and products to develop forward‑looking data strategies that enable differentiated client pitches. They are expected to take on Epsilon’s largest and most complex clients, designing end‑to‑end solutions that leverage and extend Epsilon’s platforms in novel ways. As a people leader, this role builds and mentors a high‑performing product team while setting strategic direction and execution standards. Success in this role requires the ability to operate in ambiguity, invent new product paths, and balance immediate client needs with long‑term product innovation.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and multi‑year data roadmap for Epsilon data capabilities, aligning investments to client demand, sales strategy, and long‑term platform scalability.
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers, setting clear expectations, driving accountability, and ensuring strong product discovery, execution, and stakeholder communication.
• Translate complex client business problems into product strategy, defining how Epsilon data and products should evolve to meet the needs of large, sophisticated clients.
• Define and prioritize product requirements for data ingestion, structure, and usability, ensuring data is designed to support downstream analytics, activation, and client use cases.
• Partner directly with data vendors and internal data partnerships teams to shape requirements, evaluate fit, and ensure data quality and structure meet product and client standards.
• Serve as a senior product leader in sales and client engagements, developing data strategy narratives and solution plans that enable differentiated, problem‑led pitches.
• Drive cross‑functional alignment across sales, engineering, analytics, legal, and compliance to ensure product decisions are feasible, scalable, and compliant.
• Influence executive‑level decision‑making by identifying recurring client needs, market gaps, and opportunities to expand or enhance Epsilon’s data and product offerings.
• Balance near‑term client commitments with long‑term product strategy, making clear trade‑offs to protect platform health and product integrity.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in product management, data products, or platform product roles, with demonstrated ownership of complex, enterprise‑scale products.
• Proven experience building net‑new data or platform products, including taking products from ambiguous problem space through strategy, roadmap, and delivery.
• Strong people leadership experience, including hiring, developing, and leading senior product managers and setting product execution standards across a team.
• Deep understanding of data concepts, including data sourcing, structure, ingestion, transformation, quality, and downstream usage for analytics and activation.
• Demonstrated ability to define and own a data and product roadmap, balancing long‑term platform strategy with near‑term client and commercial needs.
• Experience working directly with third‑party data vendors or partners to define requirements, evaluate data fit, and productize external data assets.
• Strong technical fluency with the ability to write clear, detailed product and data requirements that engineering and data teams can execute against.
• Experience partnering closely with sales and client teams to translate client business problems into differentiated product solutions and data strategies.
• Comfort operating at the executive level, including leading complex client conversations, influencing senior stakeholders, and making high‑impact tradeoff decisions.
• Ability to operate effectively in highly ambiguous environments, bringing structure, clarity, and direction where no clear market precedent exists.

Compensation

USD $132,800.00 – USD $246,600.00 annually, with potential eligibility for bonus or incentive compensation.

Benefits

• Time to Recharge: Flexible time off (FTO), 15 paid holidays
• Time to Recover: Paid sick time
• Family Well‑Being: Parental/new child leave, childcare & elder care assistance, adoption assistance
• Extra Perks: Comprehensive health coverage, 401(k), tuition assistance, commuter benefits, professional development, employee recognition, charitable donation matching, health coaching and counseling

Equal Opportunity Employer

Epsilon is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Epsilon’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on actual or perceived race, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy), marital status, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, mental or physical disability, religion, creed, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (including transgender status), veteran status, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local law. Epsilon also prohibits harassment of applicants and employees based on any of these protected categories. Epsilon will provide accommodations to applicants needing accommodations to complete the application process. Please reach out to [e-mail] to request an accommodation.

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