Data Product Management

Title: Data Product Manager / Data Product Owner / Technical Product Manager

Location: Hyderabad - Hybrid Role

Mode: Full-Time

Manager Note:

Data Product Experience, Within the experience, it includes “10+ years of proven experience in program and or product management”. Please can you use this to initiate a conversation with vendors, but let them know that folks with a stronger bias towards data product management would be preferred.

Data product management focused candidates are needed.

The Job

We are looking for a Staff Technical Program Manager to be responsible for coordinating the day-to-day development work for the agile development team, partnering with the technical leads, developers, and technical product managers. Your role will be responsible for ensuring that the scope, deliverables, and timelines are met by managing all aspects of a project life cycle, including project planning, development, change control, implementation, issue management, customer relationships, and team leadership.

The Daily

• Define problem statements with data-driven proposals, recommendations, and solutions; then drive alignment across all stakeholders.
• Direct engagement with senior leaders to identify near-term improvements that are aligned with long-term strategic goals.
• Provide knowledgeable feedback in technical discussions about solution design and implementation.
• Discover and articulate technical requirements and dependencies on development teams as deliverables change. These could include changes to APIs, interfaces, or the behaviour of services or client devices.
• Extract and document implementation details in collaboration with cross-functional teams and identify roadblocks before they occur.
• Maintain a quarterly view of defined, prioritised, and scoped work for execution by engineering teams.
• Work with cross-functional teams to intake, define, identify risks, and schedule work to develop key features.
• Formulate a point of view on how proposed features align with business goals and our tech strategy.

The Essentials

• 8+ years of experience in Technical Program Management or a similar role (e.g., product management, project management).
• Ability to drive the definition of project scope and facilitate the collection of engineering, operational and business requirements.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to target communications to executive leadership, and across the organization and to external partners.
• Systems thinking and a strong sense of ownership to drive complex programs with interdependencies that require definition from the ground up.
• First-rate project management skills, including the ability to balance multiple, sometimes competing, priorities with date-driven timelines and a solid understanding of risk management.
• Emotional intelligence to lead through influence, while building a culture of teamwork and inclusiveness.

The Nice to Haves

• Entertainment or media industry experience.
• Experience working with consumer facing products.
• Familiar with slack, email, web conferencing, Jira/Confluence.
• Ability to learn new development and productivity tools in order to continuously improve effectiveness.