Data Product Manager

This is a remote position.

• Define the vision and roadmap for data products (e.g., data platforms, analytics tools, ML infrastructure).
  
• Identify high value opportunities by investigating the data landscape, pain points, and business needs.
  
• Align data product strategy with organizational priorities and long-term data architecture, in partnership with the Enterprise Architecture team and various interested parties.
  
• Connect data capabilities to business outcomes and organize efforts to achieve the business outcomes.
  
• Align engineering, analytics, and business teams. Uses metrics to guide prioritization and product evolution.
  
• Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of data products: requirements, design, development, testing, launch, and iteration.
  
• Partner with data engineers and data scientists to build scalable pipelines, models, and data services. Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, and documentation standards are met.
  
• Translate business logic into data transformations, metadata, and domain specific rules.  Skilled in or adept at data architecture, modeling, and pipelines.
  
• Ensures data products are reliable, governed, and scalable.
  
• Serve as the primary liaison between technical teams at Minnesota IT Services (MNIT) and business partners across DCYF.
  
• Communicate product value, roadmap, and use cases to leadership and cross-functional teams.
  
• Prioritize incoming requests and balance competing needs across teams.
  
• Define success metrics and measure product performance and adoption.
  
• Ensure data products deliver actionable insights and support decision making.
  
• Partner with analytics teams to design dashboards, KPIs, and reporting frameworks.
  
• Uphold data governance, privacy, and ethical AI standards.
  
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and organizational data policies.
  
• Advocate for responsible data use across the human services space served by and supported through DCYF and MNIT DCYF. 
  
• ​Provide knowledge transfer
  

Requirements

Benefits

Paid Sick Time

Insurance for Medical, Dental, Vision and Life Available

401(k) including Employer Match 

HSA, Short-term & Long-term Disability Available 

We are an EEO/Veterans/Disabled employer