SENIOR DATA PRODUCT MANAGER (M/F/D)

<p><strong>Our tech environment</strong></p><p>You don’t need to be a Data Engineer or build complex data models yourself, but you should be comfortable navigating a modern data environment, understanding analytical concepts, and challenging solutions together with technical experts.</p><p><strong>Databricks • Power BI • Microsoft Fabric • Azure Cloud • Modern Data Platforms • Data Products • Data Insights &amp; Metrics • Jira • Confluence</strong></p><p>About your tasks</p><ul><li><strong>Own the Data Product strategy and portfolio within your domain</strong>, translating business challenges into scalable, reusable Data Products and analytical capabilities with clear business outcomes.</li><li><strong>Define and drive the product vision and roadmap</strong>, identifying the most valuable problems to solve and prioritizing opportunities based on business value, strategic relevance, user needs and available capacity.</li><li><strong>Act as the primary product counterpart for senior business stakeholders</strong>, creating transparency around priorities, dependencies, trade-offs and delivery while ensuring clear alignment between business and Data &amp; AI.</li><li><strong>Challenge requirements and identify the underlying business problem</strong>, moving conversations from individual requests towards reusable solutions that create value for a broader group of users.</li><li><strong>Drive adoption and value realization</strong>, using product metrics, usage insights, stakeholder feedback and business KPIs to understand whether Data Products are being used and delivering the expected outcomes.</li><li><strong>Lead through a cross-functional matrix organization</strong>, working closely with Data Engineers, Data Analysts, Forward Deployed Engineers, DataOps and functional leadership to translate product priorities into successful delivery.</li><li><strong>Own product backlog and prioritization</strong>, creating clarity around what the team works on and why, while balancing new business capabilities, technical improvements, migration activities and operational requirements.</li><li><strong>Support the transition towards self-service analytics</strong>, ensuring Data Products are understandable, reusable and accessible to their target users and identifying opportunities to reduce unnecessary dependency on central teams.</li><li><strong>Continuously improve the Data Product portfolio</strong>, identifying duplication, gaps, dependencies and opportunities for reuse across products and domains.</li></ul> <p>About you</p><ul><li>You bring <strong>6+ years of relevant product experience</strong>, with strong experience specifically in <strong>Data Product Management, Analytics Products or data-intensive products</strong>, rather than purely digital or feature-based product management.</li><li>You have strong experience within at least <strong>one relevant business or data domain</strong>, such as <strong>Customer, Marketplace, Finance, Procurement, Pricing or Marketing</strong>, and understand how to translate domain challenges into valuable data capabilities.</li><li>You are confident owning <strong>product strategy, roadmaps, prioritization, adoption metrics and business outcomes</strong> and are comfortable engaging and challenging senior stakeholders.</li><li>You don’t simply collect requirements. You are comfortable asking <strong>why</strong>, challenging assumptions and helping stakeholders distinguish between what they initially request and what they actually need.</li><li>You understand the difference between delivering a dashboard and building a <strong>scalable Data Product</strong> that can support multiple users, analytical use cases and future capabilities.</li><li>You have enough <strong>technical understanding of modern data platforms, data modelling and analytics</strong> to work effectively with technical teams, understand architectural trade-offs and challenge proposed solutions.</li><li>Experience with <strong>Databricks, Power BI, Microsoft Fabric and Azure</strong> is highly beneficial, but strong Data Product experience within another modern cloud data ecosystem is equally relevant.</li><li>You are comfortable working in a <strong>matrix organization</strong>, where Product Management owns the product direction and priorities while Data Engineering and Data Analytics leadership own people development, functional excellence and technical capabilities.</li><li>You communicate complex topics clearly, create alignment across different perspectives and are comfortable making transparent prioritization decisions when not everything can be delivered at once.</li><li>Most importantly, you combine <strong>business curiosity, product thinking and data understanding</strong> and are motivated by seeing people actually use the products you build to make better decisions.</li></ul> <p><strong>About your Benefits:</strong></p><p>In order to provide our employees with the best possible support for their individual needs, we offer a wide range of benefits:&#xa0;</p><ul><li><strong>Work from Home:&#xa0;</strong>If your job does not require you to be present in the office, we can arrange the place you work from individually - even for up to 20 days a year anywhere in the EU.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Redcare events:</strong>&#xa0;We promote teambuilding through creative team events, and celebrate our successes together at regularly scheduled parties.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Kindergarten Grant:&#xa0;</strong>We offer our employees who pay for childcare in kindergarten 100,00 € (total) per month.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Mental health:&#xa0;</strong>Get quick professional help from psychologists from nilo if you feel overwhelmed in your personal or professional life. Anonymously and free of charge.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Personal Development:&#xa0;</strong>We are all constantly learning. That's why we support and foster your career development through internal &amp; external training and help you grow.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Mobility:&#xa0;</strong>Your commute matters to us. We provide our employees with a fully costed Deutschland Ticket which can be used at any time.&#xa0;</li><li><strong>Sports &amp; Health:&#xa0;</strong>Your well-being is our top priority. Therefore, we offer you a range of opportunities to improve your health. Profit from a membership (M) package at Urban Sports Club, providing a variety of sports offers tailored to your interests.&#xa0;</li></ul><p><em>While this is a remote position based in Germany, it may require occasional on-site collaboration at our offices in Berlin or Cologne, depending on business and team requirements.</em></p>