Product Manager, DataDepartment: Data, Insights and Loyalty
Employment Type: Full Time
Location: Los Angeles HQ
Compensation: $165,000 - $180,000 / year
DescriptionSKIMS is seeking a Product Manager, Data to shape and deliver data products that make trusted, actionable information available across the business.
This role will translate business needs into a clear data product strategy, roadmap, and prioritized backlog. The Product Manager will focus on scalable, reusable capabilities rather than one-off reporting solutions, ensuring data investments support meaningful business decisions.
The ideal candidate combines product management discipline, technical fluency, and strong business judgment. They will partner closely with Data Engineering, Analytics, Data Science, and teams across Digital, Retail, Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Marketing, Operations, and Technology.
Key Responsibilities- Define and maintain a data product roadmap aligned with SKIMS' strategic and operational priorities.
- Identify opportunities to create reusable data assets, standardized metrics, and self-service capabilities across business functions.
- Prioritize investments based on business value, user needs, technical dependencies, and long-term scalability.
- Define clear product outcomes, success measures, and decision criteria for roadmap initiatives.
- Balance immediate stakeholder needs with sustainable platform and product development.
- Partner with business stakeholders to understand workflows, decisions, pain points, and unmet data needs.
- Translate ambiguous requests into product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and clear definitions of success.
- Facilitate alignment on business rules, metric definitions, source-system requirements, and intended user experiences.
- Validate proposed solutions with users before and during development.
- Communicate priorities, trade-offs, scope, and timelines clearly across technical and business teams.
- Own the product backlog and partner with Data Engineering, Analytics, and other delivery teams to execute against the roadmap.
- Coordinate dependencies across data sources, integrations, models, semantic layers, and reporting experiences.
- Lead business validation, user acceptance testing, release readiness, and stakeholder enablement.
- Monitor delivered capabilities and drive enhancements based on usage, feedback, and changing business needs.
- Identify delivery risks early and support pragmatic decisions that protect product quality and value.
- Champion consistent business definitions, clear ownership, documentation, and discoverability of data products.
- Partner with technical teams to define expectations for data quality, reliability, freshness, and issue resolution.
- Support scalable data models, governed metrics, and intuitive self-service analytics experiences.
- Help reduce fragmented reporting and manual reconciliation through shared enterprise data capabilities.
- Build trusted relationships across Ecommerce, Retail, Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Marketing, and Operations.
- Lead working sessions that connect business priorities to data product decisions and delivery plans.
- Drive adoption through communication, training, documentation, and ongoing stakeholder feedback.
- Measure product impact through usage, user satisfaction, reduced manual effort, and improved decision-making.
- Promote a product-led, customer-focused approach to data across SKIMS.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise- 4+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, data and analytics, or a related field, including ownership of data or analytics products.
- Experience defining product roadmaps, managing backlogs, and delivering cross-functional technical initiatives.
- Strong understanding of data warehouses, pipelines, data modeling, business intelligence, and modern analytics workflows.
- Working knowledge of SQL and the ability to independently explore data and validate business requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex business needs into actionable technical specifications.
- Experience with Agile delivery practices, user acceptance testing, and product management tools.
- Excellent stakeholder management, facilitation, written communication, and presentation skills.
- Strong analytical judgment and ability to prioritize competing needs in a fast-moving environment.
- Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, information systems, analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Experience within apparel, fashion, beauty, retail, ecommerce, or another consumer-facing business.
- Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Looker, Fivetran, or comparable modern data technologies.
- Experience with Shopify, NetSuite, ERP, merchandising, planning, or other enterprise source systems.
- Understanding of omnichannel sales, customer, product, inventory, and marketing data domains.
- Experience building governed metrics, semantic layers, master data capabilities, or self-service analytics products.
- Exposure to data governance, data quality, forecasting, experimentation, or AI/ML-enabled products.
- Business and technical teams share a clear, prioritized roadmap for data products and capabilities.
- High-value data initiatives are grounded in well-defined user needs and measurable outcomes.
- Products are delivered reliably, validated with stakeholders, and adopted in day-to-day business workflows.
- Core metrics and data products become more consistent, trusted, accessible, and reusable across teams.
- Manual reporting and fragmented solutions decrease as scalable data capabilities mature.
- Data investments enable faster, better-informed decisions and measurable business impact.
Benefits, Culture and PerksBenefits and Culture- Up to 100% Company Paid Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
- Kind Body Fertility Benefits
- 401(k) savings plan with up to 4% match
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Access to LinkedIn learning
- Employee Discounts
Perks (HQ Location)- Free weekly catered lunch at HQ - M/T/W/Th
- Dog-Friendly office on a Thursday and Friday
- Free Swag Giveaways
- Annual Holiday Party
- Annual Summer Party
- Invitations to pop-ups and other company events
- Complimentary daily office snacks and beverages
