Technical Product Manager

Vanguard; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Vanguard is seeking a Technical Product Manager for Data Strategy to lead enterprise data products, ensuring high-quality, well-governed data is accessible across the organization. You will work with engineering, analytics, and business teams to deliver reliable data products with measurable impact.

You will define roadmaps, drive data quality initiatives, and translate business needs into concrete data product requirements, including schemas, SLAs, and consumption patterns.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of relevant experience in technical product management, data, or related field.
• Experience with data modeling and BI tools.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for master and reference data products across the full data lifecycle.
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, governance, and business teams to apply MDM/RDM best practices.
• Use SQL and data profiling to explore data, validate requirements, and identify trends or issues.
• Translate business needs into actionable data product requirements including schemas, transformations, and SLAs.
• Guide delivery teams on data product practices and backlog management.
• Support production issue resolution with root-cause analysis for data quality or pipeline problems.
• Drive adoption by improving usability, consistency, and trust across systems.

Skills

SQL

Data modeling

BI tools

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Technical Product Manager, Data Strategy

About the role

At Vanguard, we’re committed to helping our clients achieve long-term financial success through clarity, discipline, and a focus on what matters most. As a Technical Product Manager in Data Strategy, you’ll play a key role in making high-quality, trusted data accessible across the organization. Your work will enable better decisions, improve client outcomes, and support scalable, enterprise-wide data solutions. You’ll collaborate with teammates across engineering, analytics, and business functions to build data products that are reliable, well-governed, and designed for real-world impact.

What you’ll do

• Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for master and reference data products, with accountability across the full data lifecycle—ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, storage, and consumption.


• Partner with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, governance, and business teams to define and apply best practices for master data management (MDM), reference data management (RDM), data modeling, and data quality.


• Use SQL and data profiling techniques to explore data, validate requirements, assess quality, and identify trends or issues that inform priorities and decisions.


• Translate business needs into clear, actionable data product requirements, including schemas, hierarchies, transformations, service-level agreements (SLAs), and consumption patterns.


• Guide delivery teams on effective data product practices, including backlog structure, dependency management, and outcome-based planning.


• Collaborate with engineering and stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve production issues such as data quality defects, pipeline failures, or downstream reporting impacts, using root-cause analysis to drive sustainable solutions.


• Support the launch and adoption of data products by improving usability, consistency, and trust across operational systems, analytics, and reporting.


• Continuously improve data quality—accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness—while balancing governance needs with speed and usability.


• Contribute to prioritization and roadmap discussions by highlighting data risks, architectural dependencies, and platform considerations.


• Participate in agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) for data pipelines.


• Contribute to broader data initiatives such as metadata management, data discoverability, governance workflows, and domain-based ownership models.

What we’re looking for

• Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.


• At least five years of relevant experience in technical product management, data, or a related field.


• Experience working with data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics engineering concepts, including data modeling and BI tools.


• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.


• Experience using data to inform decisions, including hands‑on work with SQL or similar tools.


• Advanced degree in information technology or related field is a plus.


• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or projects is preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.