Senior Manager, Data Products

Scorpion Therapeutics; New Brunswick (NJ); On-site; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) plan

Long-term incentive

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Scorpion Therapeutics seeks a Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance to lead the intake process for data product demand, shaping a business-facing roadmap from concept to retirement. You will define value, prioritize work, and collaborate with data engineers to drive governance, taxonomy, and catalog initiatives across the organization.

You will partner with data platform teams to enable a consistent self-service marketplace, establish ownership and decision rights, and mentor

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or advanced degree or equivalent experience in a relevant field.
• 8+ years in data governance, data/digital product management, or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience in regulated global enterprise environments; MedTech/healthcare/pharma/life sciences/supply chain/quality/manufacturing preferred.
• Experience with data-as-a-product, business glossary, metadata management, data catalog/marketplace, data stewardship, data quality, access governance, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; excellent written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
• Helpful: modern data platforms, semantic layers, medallion architecture, data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML enablement, enterprise data controls.

Responsibilities

• Establish and lead a structured intake process for product demand; assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize work based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
• Lead the business-facing roadmap for assigned data products from concept through publication, adoption, improvement, and retirement.
• Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
• Lead development and adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, and product content to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
• Partner with Alation and catalog teams to enable a consistent self-service data marketplace experience.
• Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
• Maintain business context, data definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls with domain leaders and stewards.
• Serve as primary business-facing partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
• Track adoption/usage, feedback, and business value; improve usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics/AI enablement.
• Provide leadership and mentorship for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.

Skills

Data governance

Data product management

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Backlog prioritization

Regulated environments

Data catalog/marketplace

Education

Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree or equivalent experience) in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or related field

Tools

Alation

Job description

Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance

Key Role Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead a structured intake process for product demand; assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize work based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
• Lead the business-facing roadmap for assigned data products from concept through publication, adoption, improvement, and retirement.
• Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
• Lead development and adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, and product content to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
• Partner with Alation and catalog teams to enable a consistent self-service data marketplace experience.
• Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
• Maintain business context, data definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls with domain leaders and stewards.
• Serve as primary business-facing partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
• Track adoption/usage, feedback, and business value; improve usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics/AI enablement.
• Provide leadership and mentorship for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree or equivalent experience) in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or related field.
• 8+ years in data governance, data/digital product management, or enterprise data platforms.
• Experience in regulated global enterprise environments; MedTech/healthcare/pharma/life sciences/supply chain/quality/manufacturing preferred.
• Experience with data-as-a-product, business glossary, metadata management, data catalog/marketplace, data stewardship, data quality, access governance, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; excellent written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
• Helpful: modern data platforms, semantic layers, medallion architecture, data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML enablement, enterprise data controls.

Preferred Skills:

• Alation (or similar) enterprise data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
• Business glossaries, data dictionaries, domain taxonomies, data contracts, certification standards, governed data product documentation.
• Supply chain/manufacturing data, quality systems, product lifecycle controls, or enterprise planning processes.
• Operating models, RACI, governance forums, scalable decision frameworks.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and balance strategic/tactical priorities.

Other Requirements:

• Up to 10% travel; fully onsite attendance policy.

Benefits (as stated): Eligible for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, group legal insurance; consolidated retirement plan and 401(k); long-term incentive; specified time-off benefits and parental leave (per plan terms).