Senior Director, Product Management, Data Platforms & Analytics

Senior Director Product Management Data Platforms & Analytics

Location: UK

Role Overview

The Senior Director Product Management Data Platforms & Analytics provides strategic and operational leadership for an enterprise-scale data platform portfolio encompassing cloud data infrastructure analytics AI/MLenabled capabilities and foundational services consumed by downstream applications and business domains.

This role is accountable for defining and executing platform strategy establishing strong product governance and ensuring that data and analytics platforms and products deliver measurable business value scalability and reuse. The Senior Director operates as an executive partner across technology data analytics finance and business leadership with direct accountability for executive communications and management of annual capital investments.

Key Responsibilities

Data Platform Strategy & Product Leadership

• Define and own the strategy for enterprise data and analytics platforms including data ingestion storage semantic layers analytics and AI enablement.
• Provide oversight and leadership for the product strategy and delivery of end-user analytics and data review products utilized throughout the RDS organization.
• Translate enterprise data analytics and AI strategy into a cohesive multi-year platform roadmap aligned to business priorities regulatory requirements and technology standards.
• Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability performance security and reuse across multiple products domains and customer use cases.

Executive Communication & Stakeholder Leadership

• Serve as the senior product voice for data platforms with executive leadership clearly articulating strategy trade-offs risks and business impact.
• Develop executive-ready communications including investment proposals quarterly roadmap reviews platform health dashboards and value-realization summaries.
• Partner closely with engineering architecture data governance analytics finance and business leaders to align priorities and drive timely decision-making in a highly matrixed environment.

Financial & Investment Management

• Own and govern a $10M capital investment budget across data platform initiatives and products balancing innovation modernization and operational efficiency.
• Build and defend business cases for major platform investments including cloud migrations platform modernization AI enablement and cost-optimization initiatives.
• Track financial performance ROI benefits realization and product adoption metrics to ensure investments deliver measurable business and operational value.

Platform and Product Portfolio Delivery & Value Enablement

• Partner with engineering architecture and delivery leaders to ensure platform and product roadmaps are executable resilient and aligned with enterprise standards.
• Enable downstream product teams by delivering stable well-documented and consumable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery and analytics adoption.

People Leadership & Talent Development

• Build lead and retain high-performing data platform product management teams.
• Coach and develop senior product leaders fostering strong skills in platform thinking financial acumen and executive communication.
• Promote a culture of accountability collaboration continuous improvement and employee engagement.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering Data Life Sciences or a related field; advanced degree (MBA MS PhD) preferred.
• Typically requires 10 years of relevant experience including senior leadership experience in product management with a focus on data platforms analytics platforms or foundational technology products.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise data platforms analytics platforms or foundational technology products at senior leadership level.
• Proven success operating in complex large-scale and regulated environments.
• Demonstrated experience owning and governing large capital investment portfolios and influencing enterprise-level decisions.

Critical Skills & Capabilities

Product Management

• Brings significant Product Management leadership experience with a proven track record of defining vision owning end-to-end product strategy and delivering measurable business impact through cross-functional team leadership.

Data & Platform Expertise

• Deep understanding of modern data platform architectures (cloud data platforms analytics semantic layers AI/ML enablement integration patterns).

Executive Communication & Influence

• Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to clearly explain complex data-platform concepts to non-technical leaders.
• Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across senior stakeholders in highly matrixed organizations.

Financial & Strategic Leadership

• Strong financial acumen including capital planning investment governance and value realization.
• Experience prioritizing competing initiatives across platform modernization innovation and cost efficiency.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Credible senior leader with a track record of building trust across product engineering architecture analytics and business teams.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity leading through change and driving clarity at scale.

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