Senior Product Manager- Data Strategy

The Senior Product Manager, Data Strategy will play a critical role in shaping our data landscape to support strategic initiatives across the enterprise.

This individual will be responsible for ensuring that all data-related initiatives align with our business goals and contribute to a cohesive, enterprise-wide data framework and strategy.

The role demands a balance between strategic planning and hands-on execution, with a focus on standardizing data requests and governance to feed into the overall product roadmap.

All candidates should make sure to read the following job description and information carefully before applying.

What You’ll Do

Strategy / Discovery :

• Develop and execute a data strategy that aligns with the company’s objectives, ensuring that all data initiatives support our strategic vision.
• Identify, quantify, and effectively communicate data-related opportunities; analyze competitive / industry landscape and validate solutions for future data strategy aligned with business goals.
• Monitor the health of the SSMD Data Initiative products and its businesses, anticipate business needs, and proactively work with stakeholders to establish requirements for advanced recurring and ad-hoc data and analytics support, including reporting, analyses, actionable insights, and recommendations to drive growth.
• Partner with UX, marketing research, client solutions, and business stakeholders to observe and solicit feedback from end sales, service marketing users.
• Connect strategic initiatives and their data needs to a common, enterprise data framework, promoting consistency and efficiency.

Planning and Governance :

• Create and maintain product vision and roadmap; create business plans to secure funding; develop go-to-market strategy and value proposition.
• Implement and oversee governance practices to maintain high data quality standards across master data and analytics platforms and systems.
• Provide Product Management discovery support for broader and more complex products and features within an assigned product area or domain.
• Proactively seek out strategic data opportunities, such as creating reusable data products for Sales, Service, and Marketing (SSMD).
• Ensure that strategic and tactical activities are directly tied to the product roadmap, providing clear direction and governance for new data-related intake requests.

Development :

• Work with manager and direct line of leadership to define priorities that align with evolving business priorities, set proper expectations, and manage project / task progress with team members and stakeholders.
• Facilitate access to reliable data products, enabling stakeholders to derive actionable insights for business decisions.

Sales & Client Engagement :

• Engage with cross-functional stakeholders and business partners to ensure data vision addresses :
• Marketplace access
• Format of key features and functionality requirements, service, and support requirements
• Key domains

Evaluation :

• Measure and monitor product KPI performance, and provide strategy and roadmap input; accordingly, make end-of-life recommendations for non-performant data products.
• Evaluate customer / market / financial data, identify emerging patterns, trends and problems, and recommend strategies and approaches for resolution.

What’s In It For You

Here’s a sneak peek of the benefits at your disposal as a Cox employee :

• A competitive salary and top-notch bonus / incentive plans.
• Exceptional work-life balance, flexible time-off policies, and accommodating work schedules.
• Comprehensive healthcare, with multiple options for individuals and families.
• Generous 401(k) retirement plans with up to 8% company match.
• Mental health support, including counseling and access to virtual wellness resources such as CALM.
• Access to Care.com, with up to 10 days of subsidized care for children, seniors, and pets.

Check out all our benefits.

Who You Are

Minimum

Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline and 4 years’ experience in a related field. The right candidate could also have a different combination, such as a master’s degree and 2 years’ experience;

a Ph.D. and up to 1 year of experience; or 16 years’ experience in a related field.

Minimum of at least 5 years in a data strategy role, with a proven track record of successful data product management.

Applies a broad knowledge of business, product performance, and industry principles, practices, and procedures.

Working knowledge of SAFe Agile Methodology.

Working knowledge of data management, data governance, and high-level data engineering concepts.

Experience working cross-functionally with a variety of different domains, including Engineering, Finance, and Business Development.

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, that can be applied across a diverse set of audiences.

Experience in design, development, and implementation of product plans.

Experience in full product lifecycle methodologies.

Experience in creating, prioritizing, and recommending epics and features.

Experience in conducting competitive research and analysis.

Experience in identifying KPIs and other analytics to measure product value.

Experience with executive presentations.

Experience in a collaborative, cross-functional, and complex team environment.

A proactive and self-motivated approach which includes an appetite to improve results and endless intellectual curiosity, desire to continuously learn about the fast-changing media landscape.

Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations;

ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals; ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Ability to anticipate stakeholders’ needs and recognize the opportunity to provide proactive insights to build tight thought partnership.

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