UL

Manager, Data Product Management

UL • $130K — $180K *
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years in data, analytics, or product management roles with a focus on delivering high-value data products
  • 3+ years in people leadership, successfully managing and developing teams of product owners or data professionals
  • Expertise in defining and executing data product strategies and roadmaps aligned with organizational goals
  • Skilled in transforming complex business needs into actionable product requirements and delivery plans
  • Experience managing a diverse portfolio of data products with a keen eye on prioritization and dependencies
  • Familiar with modern data ecosystems, including cloud platforms and BI tools
  • Knowledgeable in data governance and data quality practices, ensuring compliance and trust in data products
  • Agile delivery experience, particularly in backlog management and cross-functional collaboration
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication abilities to influence leaders and align teams globally
  • Proven track record in defining and tracking product success metrics such as adoption and usability

Responsibilities

  • Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Data Product Owners in product development and management.
  • Define and oversee the strategic vision and roadmap for data and analytics products in collaboration with stakeholders.
  • Align product roadmaps with enterprise priorities, addressing business strategy and tech directions.
  • Transform business needs into detailed product capabilities, release plans, and prioritized outcomes.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders to identify needs, challenges, and opportunities for new data product initiatives.
  • Manage the data product portfolio, balancing competing priorities and coordinating investment planning.
  • Engage with engineering, architecture, and governance teams to ensure alignment on product requirements.

Benefits

  • Annual bonus potential with a target payout of 20% of base salary
  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Wellness benefits supporting mental and financial health
  • Retirement savings plan (401K)
  • Paid time off including 15 vacation days, 12 holidays, and 72 hours of sick leave
Full Job Description
Job Description

Serves as a key leader within the Global Data & Analytics organization, responsible for building, coaching, and guiding a high-performing team of Data Product Owners to deliver scalable, high-impact data and analytics products. This role plays a critical part in shaping how the organization translates data into business value-owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data products in close partnership with business and IT leaders. The manager drives alignment between enterprise priorities and product delivery, ensuring teams focus on the highest-value outcomes and deliver measurable impact.

As a strategic leader, this role oversees the end-to-end data product portfolio, balancing competing priorities, investments, and dependencies across a global landscape. They enable consistent, high-quality execution by establishing strong product management practices, clear backlogs, and outcome-based success measures, while removing barriers and resolving cross-functional challenges. The role is central to driving adoption, usability, and business value from data products, and ensures tight collaboration across business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and governance teams.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Data Product Owners responsible for defining, prioritizing, and advancing data and analytics products.
  • Define and oversee the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data and analytics products in partnership with business and IT leaders.
  • Ensure data product roadmaps align with enterprise priorities, business strategy, and technology direction.
  • Guide product teams in translating business needs into clearly defined capabilities, release plans, and outcome-based priorities.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand priorities, pain points, and opportunities, and facilitate ideation and discovery for new and enhanced data products.
  • Oversee the data product portfolio, including intake, evaluation, prioritization, sequencing, and investment planning across competing priorities and dependencies.
  • Work closely with engineering, architecture, analytics, and data governance teams to ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned to strategic goals.
  • Ensure Data Product Owners maintain high-quality backlogs, business cases, success measures, and release plans.
  • Remove barriers and resolve cross-functional issues that impact product delivery, adoption, or value realization.
  • Define and monitor key performance measures for data products, including adoption, business impact, usability, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.


Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in data, analytics, or product management roles, including delivery of data products such as dashboards, semantic models, and data platforms that drive business value
  • 3+ years of people leadership experience managing product owners, analysts, or data professionals, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teams
  • Proven experience defining and executing data product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization, aligning to business goals and enterprise data strategy
  • Strong ability to translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, capabilities, and outcome-based delivery plans
  • Experience managing a portfolio of data and analytics products, including intake, prioritization, dependency management, and investment planning
  • Solid understanding of modern data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure), data modeling concepts, and BI/analytics tools
  • Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and master data management practices to ensure trusted and compliant data products
  • Experience working within Agile delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaboration
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence business and IT leaders and drive alignment across global teams
  • Proven ability to define and track product success metrics such as adoption, business impact, usability, and quality
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

What you'll experience working for ULS

Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimated salary range for this position is $130,000 to $180,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors. This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

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About UL

UL is a global safety certification company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois. It was founded in 1894 and has been providing safety testing, inspection, and certification services for over 125 years. UL operates in over 100 countries and has more than 14,000 employees worldwide. The company's mission is to promote safe living and working environments by advancing safety science. UL's services cover a wide range of industries, including consumer products, industrial equipment, building materials, and more.
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