Sr. Data Product Manager

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Summary:

The Applied Intelligence team is seeking a Senior Data Product Manager to guide the strategy, execution, and operational excellence of enterprise data production platforms. This role turns raw data into trusted, scalable data products that power analytics, APIs, machine learning, and applications. You will work between Data Engineering and Software Engineering to define, prioritize, and scale reliable data systems. The role calls for deep technical fluency, sound product instincts, and thoughtful operational management. As a Data Product Manager, you will own the lifecycle of data as a product, from ingestion and modeling to delivery, SLAs, and measurable value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and guide the roadmap for scalable data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and serving platforms.

• Prioritize initiatives that improve data reliability, quality, performance, and cost efficiency.

• Set a clear product vision for data assets, APIs, and self-service capabilities, Leading End-to-End Data Lifecycle Management

• Define data production standards, including SLAs, freshness targets, quality thresholds, and availability metrics.

• Partner with Data Engineers and Software Engineers on architecture, pipelines, API contracts, and data access patterns.

• Set up clear intake, prioritization, and delivery frameworks, with KPIs for pipeline health, adoption, reliability, and latency.

• Coordinate planning cycles for data platform investments and address technical debt and scalability risks early, ensuring data systems are scalable to support real-time, AI/ML, and high-volume analytical workloads.

• Translate complex business requirements into sound, scalable product requirements, and join design reviews.

• Communicate platform capabilities, roadmap sequencing, and constraints, and report on business value delivered.

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of product management experience with significant ownership of data platforms, infrastructure, or analytics systems.

• Proven experience delivering large-scale, cross-functional technical initiatives and managing complex backlogs against stakeholder needs.

• Solid knowledge of modern data architectures (data lakes, warehouses, lakehouse models) and ETL/ELT pipelines.

• Working knowledge of streaming and event-driven architectures (e.g., Kafka, Pub/Sub), APIs, and microservices.

• Skilled in planning, prioritization, program management, and defining measurable KPIs for technical platforms.

• Clear written and verbal communication across technical and executive audiences.

• Systems thinker with sound technical and business judgment, who is structured, metrics-driven, and outcome-oriented.

• Interest in building reliable, production-grade data systems that deliver measurable impact.

• Experience with AI/ML feature engineering pipelines, data governance, and regulatory compliance.

• Background in high-scale, real-time production data environments.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Hiring Salary Range: $110,000.00 - 166,000.00.

The hiring salary range for this position applies to New York, California, Colorado, Washington state, and most other geographies. Starting pay for the successful applicant depends on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, tuition assistance program and PTO or, if applicable, as otherwise dictated by the appropriate Collective Bargaining Agreement.This position is bonus eligible.

What We Offer :

• Attractive compensation and comprehensive benefits packages. Check out our full list of benefits here (http://www.skydance.com/careers/benefits) .

• Generous paid time off.

• Complimentary subscriptions to HBO Max, Paramount+, and other Skydance streaming services and digital news products.

• Robust employee engagement opportunities, including access to exclusive screenings and events, speaker series, volunteer activities and more.

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