Senior Product Manager (Distribution Channels)

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

Job summary

Kpler is seeking a Product Manager to own the strategy and delivery of shared data distribution capabilities used by multiple product teams and customers. You’ll shape a 12-month direction for channels like file delivery, streaming, cloud data sharing, and analytics access while balancing adoption, reliability, cost, and customer value.

You will lead the definition of product vision, drive backlog, and collaborate with engineering to expand data access and improve channel performance.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years in product management, including three+ years delivering platform products used by multiple teams.
• Experience with data delivery products such as file transfer, streaming, APIs, warehouses, or data-sharing services.
• Strong discovery, vision-setting, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery skills.
• Knowledge of data products, pipelines, and streaming or event-driven systems.
• Familiarity with Jira; Agile or Scrum practices and backlog management.
• Ability to use SQL with data warehouses to assess usage, cost, and data quality.
• Knowledge of data-sharing technologies, open formats, observability, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting.
• Clear communicator who aligns stakeholders and makes evidence-led decisions under constraints.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and roadmap for internal and customer-facing distribution channels, and guide feature and content development.
• Discover opportunities across the data ecosystem, assessing new channels, data content, providers, and solutions using evidence and stakeholder input.
• Work with product teams to identify shared needs and prioritize platform capabilities that can serve multiple groups.
• Lead backlog planning and delivery with product and engineering partners, including refinement and prioritization in Jira and Productboard.
• Increase adoption across teams, expand available data, and help teams manage their own data pipelines.
• Improve channel reliability, operational efficiency, and cost; set success measures and use performance and adoption data to drive changes.
• Communicate roadmap progress to internal stakeholders and support customer-facing groups; evaluate external partners that could strengthen distribution.

Skills

Product management

Discovery & vision

Roadmap & prioritization

Stakeholder alignment

Evidence-based decisions

Tools

Jira

Productboard

Job description

Role overview

Own the strategy and delivery of shared data distribution capabilities used by multiple product teams and customers. You’ll set a 12-month direction for channels such as file delivery, streaming, cloud data sharing, and analytics access, balancing adoption, reliability, cost, and customer value.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and roadmap for internal and customer-facing distribution channels, and guide feature and content development.
• Discover opportunities across the data ecosystem, assessing new channels, data content, providers, and solutions using evidence and stakeholder input.
• Work with product teams to identify shared needs and prioritize platform capabilities that can serve multiple groups.
• Lead backlog planning and delivery with product and engineering partners, including refinement and prioritization in tools such as Jira and Productboard.
• Increase adoption across teams, expand available data, and help teams manage their own data pipelines.
• Improve channel reliability, operational efficiency, and cost; set success measures and use performance and adoption data to drive changes.
• Communicate roadmap progress to internal stakeholders and support customer-facing groups; evaluate external partners that could strengthen distribution.

Requirements

• At least five years in product management, including three or more years delivering shared or platform products adopted across multiple teams.
• Experience with data delivery products such as file transfer, streaming, APIs, warehouses, or data-sharing services.
• Strong product discovery, vision-setting, roadmap, prioritization, and delivery skills.
• Understanding of data products, pipelines, and streaming or event-driven systems.
• Experience with Agile or Scrum practices and backlog management; familiarity with Jira.
• Ability to use SQL with data warehouses to assess usage, cost, and data quality.
• Knowledge of data-sharing technologies, open formats, observability, telemetry, dashboards, and alerting.
• Clear communicator who can align stakeholders, make evidence-led decisions, and manage constraints.

Nice to have

• Knowledge of energy, maritime, or commodities data; enterprise B2B data products; or cloud cost management and FinOps.
• Experience with data-sharing partners, marketplaces, or commercial vendor relationships.