Data Product Manager

Position: Data Product Manager

Location: St. Paul, MN

Duration: 12 Months

Job Summary

• Manage and lead data product initiatives, ensuring alignment between technical and business goals.

• Collaborate with data engineering, architecture, and data science teams to design, build, and implement data systems including pipelines, warehousing, modeling, and governance.

• Translate complex technical concepts into business-friendly language for stakeholders.

• Oversee data management activities, including data analytics, engineering, and quality control.

• Drive the implementation of modern data architectures and platforms, including internal and developer-facing products.

• Utilize analytics tools (e.g., dbt, Looker, Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics) and SQL for data analysis and reporting.

• Ensure compliance with data sharing agreements, privacy, and regulatory requirements, especially in highly regulated and public-sector environments.

• Lead modernization efforts of legacy data systems, including migration to cloud-based data lakes and curated enterprise datasets.

• Define and deliver scalable internal data products such as semantic layers, governed APIs, and shared data models.

• Implement and support enterprise data governance frameworks, including metadata standards, data lineage, quality controls, and stewardship models.

• Manage stakeholder relationships, prioritization, and communication across technical and policy teams.

• Support statistical analysis and compliance-driven reporting in regulated industries.

• Leverage significant experience with Databricks, and familiarity with Java and Python.

• (Preferred) Experience working with state government agencies and understanding compliance frameworks (e.g., HIPAA, FERPA).

• (Preferred) Proven ability to align diverse stakeholders to drive unified data strategy and adoption.