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Full Time Job

Sr Staff Data Product Manager

CNN

Chicago, IL 10-17-2021
 
  • Paid
  • Full Time
Job Description
Sr Staff Data Product Manager (CNN+)

The Job

You will leverage a modern data stack, with a particular focus across Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Apache Airflow, DBT, and Looker, powering a variety of ELT/ETL processes. You will work closely with stakeholders across the business, including product analytics, audience research, revenue analytics, marketing, data science and engineering teams - focused on transforming raw data into valuable assets that drive business value and product development. You will design and develop new data solutions that power business intelligence, consumer marketing, and data modeling. You will have the opportunity to play a critical part in the digital transformation of a world-leading media company.

Responsibilities

As a Data Product Manager on the Data Platform Services team, you will:
• Develop and own the long-term product vision and roadmap for key data platform services.
• Discover business opportunities and solutions to leverage user data sets by gathering feedback from internal stakeholders, iterating on features, white- boarding technical implementations.
• Work with your data engineering team to evolve existing services and define new ones, prioritize their features, and craft their user experience.
• Represent your product roadmap and business metrics to technology executives, stakeholders, and product teams across the company.
• Engage with stakeholders, other product managers, and cross-functional teams to design, deliver, and support solutions.
• Highly collaborative, able to build trust and strong relationships at all levels, influence without formal authority, push back when appropriate, earn respect, and respect the contributions of others.
• Excellent communicator and are able to articulate a strategy and roadmap with a focus on solving business problems.
• Understand business objectives, convert them into clear development plans, and follow through with consistent and thorough execution.
• Understand data engineering technology ecosystem and keep current with the latest trends.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and challenge, concurrently managing and prioritizing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced environment.

Requirements
• 8+ years of total experience in an agile, cloud, continuous delivery environment with 2-5+ years of experience in a product manager or technical product manager role.
• Bachelor or Master in a technical discipline, Mathematics, Computer Science, etc, or equivalent experience required.
• Data Pipeline and/or Platform experience.
• Is a strong business owner, comfortable sharing their vision with senior leadership, but also working closely with engineering teams to dive deep into details to make ideas into reality.
• Strong understanding of what it means to own/operate cloud services, especially developer platforms.
• Worked closely with developers and communicated on that level.
• You have experience managing a range of ETL/ELT processes, and transforming raw data assets into usable data for analytics, data science, or data product use cases.
• You have experience with cloud data platforms and databases, in particular Google Cloud Platform and Amazon Web Services.
• Intermediate/advanced SQL skills, and bonus points for also knowing Python and/orR.
• Some experience working with modern BI tools, including Looker, Tableau, Domo and/or Data Studio.
• You love data!

Desirable Skills
• You have familiarity with data orchestration technologies such as Apache Airflow and/or Metaflow.
• Experience with Snowflake, Alation, or DBT.
• Excellent SQL skills, and bonus points for also knowing Python. and/or R. Extensive experience working with modern BI tools, including Looker, Tableau, and/or Domo.
• Proven success in product management for both small and large organizations.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d282p7-3-144-233-150-42 in your application.

Company Profile
CNN

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