Supply Chain Data Product Manager

Photon; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Photon is seeking a Data Product Manager for Supply Chain to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized requirements for trusted data capabilities across inventory, replenishment, distribution, and fulfillment. You will interface with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver governed Databricks-based data products that drive tangible operational value.

The role focuses on turning descriptive visibility into predictive and prescriptive decision support, while planning launches,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant product management or data product experience.
• Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Experience owning product vision, discovery, roadmap, prioritization, requirements, launch readiness, adoption and outcome measurement.
• Hands-on working knowledge of Databricks and modern lakehouse concepts, including governed data products, pipelines, semantic layers, data quality, lineage and self-service consumption.
• Ability to partner effectively with data engineering, analytics, data science, architecture, security, privacy and business teams.
• Ability to define product outcomes and KPIs, use evidence to make prioritization decisions and communicate complex data topics in business language.
• Working knowledge of agile product delivery, backlog management, dependency planning and change adoption.
• Working knowledge of supply chain language and strategy, including inventory, replenishment, forecasting, purchase orders, distribution-center operations, transportation, fulfillment, service levels and exception management.

Responsibilities

• Defines and maintains the roadmap for supply chain data products, aligning investments to service, inventory, productivity, cost and member-availability objectives.
• Runs discovery with supply chain operators and leaders in clubs, distribution centers, transportation, replenishment, fulfillment and planning to understand decisions and operational constraints.
• Owns prioritization across inventory visibility, in-stock and out-of-stock insights, replenishment, DC throughput, transportation, order visibility, exception management and network performance.
• Defines canonical business concepts, operational KPIs, business rules, event requirements, latency expectations, acceptance criteria and data quality thresholds.
• Partners with engineering, analytics and architecture to deliver governed products on Databricks that support both analytical and operational workflows.
• Builds a path from descriptive visibility to predictive and prescriptive decision support, including exception alerts, demand sensing, inventory optimization and scenario planning where justified by evidence.
• Plans launch, workflow integration, training, support readiness and adoption with operational users, recognizing that value is realized only when decisions and behaviors change.
• Makes dependencies across merchandising, clubs, finance, vendors, logistics systems and shared data visible before they affect committed outcomes.
• Measures product performance through adoption, timeliness, quality, decision-cycle improvement and the operational outcome each product is intended to influence.

Skills

Product management

Data product

Analytics product

Stakeholder collaboration

Agile delivery

Supply chain language

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Photon is seeking a Data Product Manager for Supply Chain to own the vision, roadmap, and prioritized requirements for trusted data capabilities across inventory, replenishment, distribution, and fulfillment. You will interface with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver governed Databricks-based data products that drive tangible operational value.

The role focuses on turning descriptive visibility into predictive and prescriptive decision support, while planning launches,