Lead Product Owner

The Lead Product Owner (LPO) within Krolls Chief Data Office (CDO) is responsible for endtoend ownership consistency and execution excellence across multiple data analytics and reporting products or domains. This role ensures alignment between business priorities product strategy and delivery execution.

The Lead Product Owner acts as the central accountability point across a portfolio of related products coaching and guiding Product Owners establishing standards and partnering closely with Program Management Data Engineering and Governance to deliver predictable highquality outcomes.

This role is critical to enabling productled execution at scale within the CDO.

Key Responsibilities

PortfolioLevel Product Ownership

• Own the overall product vision and execution strategy across a defined product portfolio or domain (e.g. Reporting SelfService Analytics Finance Analytics Data Platforms).

• Ensure each product has:

  • A clear purpose and roadmap

  • Defined success metrics

  • Consistent experience and standards

• Act as the final decision authority on prioritization scope tradeoffs and acceptance across related products.

Leadership & Coaching

• Lead mentor and coach Product Owners to ensure consistent product ownership practices and decision quality.

• Set and enforce standards for backlog quality roadmap clarity and stakeholder communication.

• Serve as the escalation point for complex prioritization dependency or scope conflicts.

• Raise the overall product ownership maturity across CDO.

Stakeholder Alignment & Business Partnership

• Serve as an interface between CDO and business finance and functional leaders for assigned domains.

• Translate enterprise priorities into sequenced realistic roadmaps.

• Manage competing stakeholder demands by making transparent valuebased tradeoffs.

• Ensure stakeholders have confidence in what will be delivered when and why.

Roadmap Backlog & Delivery Governance

• Maintain a portfoliolevel roadmap aligned with capacity dependencies and strategic priorities.

• Ensure Product Owners maintain welldefined ready backlogs that support predictable delivery.

• Partner with Program Managers and Scrum Masters to:

  • Align sprint and release plans

  • Surface risks and constraints early

  • Manage crossteam dependencies

• Ensure delivery adheres to CDO governance readiness and release standards.

Quality Governance & Trust

• Partner with Data Governance Architecture and Platform teams to:

  • Enforce consistent KPI definitions and semantic standards

  • Uphold data quality lineage and trust expectations

  • Ensure security and compliance requirements are met

• Ensure products are operationally ready and supported postrelease.

Value Realization & Continuous Improvement

• Define and track adoption usage and value metrics across the product portfolio.

• Ensure products deliver measurable business impact not just functionality.

• Identify opportunities to:

  • Simplify or consolidate products

  • Reduce technical or vendor dependency

  • Improve scalability and user experience

• Continuously refine product direction based on feedback and performance insights.

Qualifications & Experience

• 7 years of experience in Product Ownership Product Management Business Analysis or Analytics/Datacentric leadership roles.

• Proven experience owning multiple products or domains in a complex enterprise environment.

• Strong understanding of enterprise data analytics reporting and BI platforms.

• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with senior business stakeholders and technical delivery teams.

• Experience leading or mentoring other Product Owners or equivalent roles.

Preferred

• Experience within a Chief Data Office Analytics COE or Enterprise Reporting organization.

• Familiarity with platforms such as Databricks Power BI semantic models and selfservice analytics.

• Experience modernizing legacy reporting or analytics platforms.

• Background in professional services or financial services environments.

Leadership Behaviors & Expectations

• Thinks and acts portfoliofirst not storybystory.

• Brings clarity structure and discipline to ambiguity.

• Comfortable makingand defendingtradeoff decisions.

• Focused on outcomes adoption and trust not just delivery.

• Acts as a role model for product ownership maturity.

Role Relationships (Clarity of Accountability)

• Lead Product Owner: Defines longterm strategy investment priorities and value realization. Owns execution alignment product standards and delivery outcomes across a portfolio.

• Product Owners: Own daytoday product execution and backlogs within specific domains.

• Program Managers: Own delivery coordination milestones and dependency management.

Why This Role Matters

The Lead Product Owner ensures CDO can scale productled execution without chaos reducing reliance on individual heroics while increasing predictability trust and impact across enterprise data and analytics investments.

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