Data Product Manager

Data Product Manager

About the role
At Vanguard were committed to helping our clients achieve long-term financial success through clarity discipline and a focus on what matters most. As a Date Product Manager youll play a key role in making high-quality trusted data accessible across the organization. Your work will enable better decisions improve client outcomes and support scalable enterprise-wide data solutions. Youll collaborate with teammates across engineering analytics and business functions to build data products that are reliable well-governed and designed for real-world impact.

Core Responsibilities

• Own strategic product leadership for a family of master and reference data products with endtoend accountability for vision roadmap and value delivery across the data lifecycle (ingestion modeling quality orchestration storage and consumption).

• Define and evolve the targetstate architecture and operating model for MDM and RDM guiding maturity progression across domains while balancing governance scalability usability and speed.

• Lead crossfunctional alignment across data engineering analytics engineering platform governance and business teams to set and operationalize enterprise standards for data modeling data quality frameworks data contracts and lifecycle ownership.

• Translate complex and often ambiguous business needs into cohesive portfoliolevel roadmaps sequencing initiatives based on risk and business impact.

• Maintain strong technical credibility through handson SQL and data analysis when needed while primarily operating at a systemlevel view across multiple interdependent data products.

• Oversee resolution of complex crossproduct production issues driving root cause analysis and durable remediation for data quality defects pipeline failures and downstream analytics breakages.

• Establish and continuously improve data product delivery practices including portfolio backlog management dependency orchestration CI/CD for data pipelines observability and data freshness monitoring.

• Drive adoption trust and consistency of master and reference data across operational systems analytics and reporting by improving discoverability reliability and clarity of ownership.

• Influence enterprise planning and investment decisions by representing data product risk technical constraints and longterm sustainability in senior stakeholder forums.

What were looking for

• QualificationsUndergraduate degree required; advanced degree or equivalent handson experience in data engineering analytics engineering or related disciplines preferred.

• 8 years of experience in data product management data engineering analytics or closely related roles.

• Proven experience owning product vision and roadmaps across multiple interdependent data products or domains.

• Demonstrated ability to lead large crossfunctional initiatives and operate effectively in highcomplexity highambiguity environments.

• Strong technical fluency in data architectures data modeling SQLbased analysis pipeline orchestration and data quality frameworks and management.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

About Vanguard

At Vanguard we dont just have a missionwere on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.