Senior Data Product Manager & Owner
Reporting to the Data Strategy & Enablement Sr Manager, the EMEA Data Product Manager & Owner is accountable end‐to‐end for strategy and day‐to‐day delivery of data products: Vision → Roadmap → Backlog → Release → Adoption → Value.
You will translate business outcomes into product capabilities, manage scope and trade‐offs, embed governance and privacy by design, and orchestrate delivery across a complex, matrixed landscape.
Success requires a blend of product strategy, stakeholder leadership, and hands‐on ownership to ship secure, compliant, and scalable data products that power analytics, AI, and operational workflows across the region.
Essential functions
Product vision & strategy: Define a 12–24‐month vision, value hypotheses, and positioning for EMEA data products; maintain an outcome‐based roadmap aligned with enterprise standards and local needs.
Backlog ownership & delivery: Convert outcomes into prioritized epics/stories, lead refinement and planning, uphold DoR/DoD, balance features with reliability, observability, cost, and sustainability.
Value & metrics: Establish VIPs/KPIs/OKRs (adoption, time‐to‐data, data trust, NPS, ROI); run quarterly value reviews, iterate the roadmap based on evidence.
Data governance by design: Embed privacy, security, quality, and lifecycle controls (policies, lineage, access models, retention, auditability) into every increment, ensure GDPR compliance and data residency adherence.
Data contracts & semantics: Maintain versioned schemas and contracts, define business rules and semantic layers that ensure interoperability across domains.
Platform leverage & reusability: Reuse enterprise platforms, patterns, and reference architectures, drive reusability and scale across markets while meeting country‐specific requirements.
Stakeholder & change leadership: Communicate clearly at all levels; manage dependencies and risks, prepare business cases, Investment Board inputs, release notes, and adoption communications.
Incident, risk & release management: Triage issues, lead RCA, and prioritize preventative fixes, plan releases and change controls, coordinate rollbacks/hotfixes where needed.
Enablement & adoption: Publish documentation, examples, and learning paths, champion catalog discoverability, access requests, and community channels.
Financial stewardship: Own product budgets/forecasts, track benefits realization and ROI, report performance and outcomes to sponsors and Finance partners.
Global alignment: Partner with global product, platform, and architecture teams to align roadmaps, share learnings, and represent EMEA needs and impact.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
7–10+ years across product management/ownership, data platforms, analytics, or digital strategy. Medtech/pharma/consulting experience is a plus.
Proven success delivering data products from concept to scaled adoption (data product mindset desirable).
Strong grasp of data privacy (GDPR), regulatory frameworks, security, and AI ethics.
Practical understanding of ELT/ETL, event streaming, data modeling, semantic layers, and production operations (SLAs/SLOs, observability).
Expert backlog management, story writing, acceptance testing, and agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban).
Excellent communication and facilitation, able to influence executive, technical, and non‐technical audiences.
Technical fluency and eagerness for continuous learning in Data & AI capabilities and products.
We offer
- Opportunity to work on bleeding-edge projects
- Work with a highly motivated and dedicated team
- Competitive salary
- Flexible schedule
- Benefits package - medical insurance, sports
- Corporate social events
- Professional development opportunities
- Well-equipped office
About us
Grid Dynamics (NASDAQ: GDYN) is a leading provider of technology consulting, platform and product engineering, AI, and advanced analytics services. Fusing technical vision with business acumen, we solve the most pressing technical challenges and enable positive business outcomes for enterprise companies undergoing business transformation. A key differentiator for Grid Dynamics is our 8 years of experience and leadership in enterprise AI, supported by profound expertise and ongoing investment in data, analytics, cloud & DevOps, application modernization and customer experience. Founded in 2006, Grid Dynamics is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices across the Americas, Europe, and India.Apply to the position
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