About the business:At Cirium, our goal is to keep the world connected. We are the industry leader in aviation analytics; helping our customers understand the past, present, and predicting what will happen tomorrow. Our mission is to transform the aviation industry by enabling airlines, airports, travel companies, tech giants, aircraft manufacturers, financial institutions and many more accelerate their own digital transformation. You can learn more about Cirium here: https://www.cirium.com
About our team:We’re seeking an innovative and driven Data Product Manager to join our global Data Governance team. This team is responsible for owning, managing, and applying proper governance over our foundational datasets from which Cirium builds our products and services. We work closely with Product, Technology, Sales, and Marketing teams to ensure our foundational data is fit for purpose, properly governed, and data quality standard are applied and understood. Your role will be to ensure our data is properly understood, fit for purpose, and available for product teams to innovate and deliver new products and services to market that not only meet but exceed customer expectations.
About the job:As a Data Product Manager at Cirium, you will be merging data lifecycle management and technical proficiency with commercial acumen to shape how we leverage our data and be a champion of data governance. You will be accountable for foundational datasets from which we build our products and services. On a day-to-day basis you will ensure the data you manage is properly governed, fit for purpose, data quality thresholds and targets are well understood and adhered to, alignment with our data initiatives and business goals, and fostering a data-driven culture.
About you:
- You understand data. You have experience working with and owning complex datasets, where you have collaborated with multiple stakeholder and software development team using Agile methodologies.
- You know product management. You have an understanding of product management and have experience developing product roadmaps (ideally with data products) and articulating that roadmap to many different types of stakeholders.
- You understand Data Governance. Many internal and external customers will access the data you manage. You will have experience with implementing data governance frameworks and governing data inclusive of data access, data cataloguing, data modelling, metadata, data legislation and data documentation.
- You are a skilled and proactive communicator. We are a diverse, global team and you need strong verbal and written communication to convey your data vision, roadmap, and progress. You know the right tool for the job whether it’s managing the day-to-day cadence of projects or building cross-company momentum around a data projects.
- You have ample technical and analytical skills. While you may or may not know how to code, you have the technical know-how to analyse data. You use your technical context to make better data driven decision.
- You are confident in customer facing environment. You are confident at explaining data value, governance and quality in virtual and face-to-face customer interactions.
Responsibilities:
- Having In-depth knowledge and a sound business understanding of the data domain you own
- Making decision around your data domain on access, usage, data quality, publishing new data, and policy compliance
- Maintaining a strategic data roadmap, gathering requirements from appropriate stakeholders, and communicating data improvements delivered from the roadmap back to the business
- Acting as senior stakeholder with the appropriate technical squads to ensure that items from the data roadmap are added to appropriate squad backlogs, prioritized, and delivered
- Populating and maintaining Cirium Data Governance Platform for assigned data domain (definitions, business glossary's, linage, taxonomy, etc)
- Being accountable for ensuring data quality thresholds and targets are understood and met on assigned foundational data domain
- Managing stakeholders and acting as the bridge between IT and business units to maintain data integrity across the entire data lifecycle
- Owning and running monthly Data Management Group sessions for assigned data domain
- Supporting sales with key customer interactions
Qualifications:
- Demonstrate experience working in a complex data environment and with data as a product
- Have a solid understanding of data governance frameworks
- Have a solid understanding on data analysis and approaches used to make data drive decisions
- Demonstrate proficiency in various technologies to assist day-to-day tasks with a strong emphasis on JIRA knowledge preferred
- Have active experience in successfully managing and maintaining complex datasets
- Have a good understanding of agile software development methodologies like Scrum
- Demonstrate excellent product management skills
- Have effective communication and stakeholder management skills
- Have previous experience with Collibra is preferred but not essential
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