Senior Manager, Data Product Management Who we're looking for: Rogers Sports & Media (RSM) is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap and delivery of Media Data Platforms and Products that support advertising, audience insights, and customer subscription lifecycle initiatives across the business. Working across Sales, Marketing, Product, Data Science, Engineering, Architecture and Technology teams, you will identify business opportunities, prioritize strategic investments and deliver scalable data capabilities that improve business outcomes.
This role combines people leadership, product management, commercial strategy and technology leadership to modernize RSM's data ecosystem while supporting long-term business growth.
What you'll do: - Define and maintain the product roadmap for Media Data Platforms and Products supporting Advanced Advertising and Direct-to-Consumer subscription businesses.
- Develop long-term platform strategies aligned with RSM's business priorities and partner with Enterprise Architecture to define future-state platform capabilities.
- Lead cross-functional planning for complex initiatives, coordinating dependencies across multiple products, engineering teams, vendors and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of strategic programs.
- Develop business cases supporting strategic platform investments and modernization initiatives. Define product KPIs and measure adoption, business value and platform health.
Media Data Products - Lead the strategy and evolution of products supporting:
- Reporting & Insights: PowerBI & DOMO
- Martech: Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) or other Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
- Adtech: Identity graph, audience segmentation, attribution measurement
- Direct-to-Consumer: customer lifecycle management (acquisition, churn, customer lifetime value analytics)
- Data Science: feature stores, ML operations
Platform Strategy & Technology - Partner with Enterprise Data to evolve RSM's data platform and technology ecosystem.
- Responsibilities include aligning with stakeholders across a hybrid-cloud ecosystem including: Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and on-premises, while ensuring best practices for data quality, governance, and finops.
Business Planning & Financial Management - Develop product roadmaps aligned with RSM's strategy. Develop business cases and ROI analyses.
- Prepare CAPEX and OPEX plans supporting strategic platform investments.
- Partner with Procurement on vendor selection, contract renewals, and strategic technology planning.
Team Leadership - Lead and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for Media Data Platforms and Products.
- Recruit, mentor and develop Product Managers, fostering a high-performing product organization. Coach Product Managers on product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, stakeholder management and product execution.
- Establish product management best practices, governance and operating models across RSM's data portfolio.
- Align priorities across multiple product teams to ensure consistent execution against Media business objectives.
What you'll bring: - 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Data Platforms, or related technology leadership roles.
- Experience leading enterprise-scale data products or platform initiatives.
- Experience leading, mentoring and developing Product Managers.
- Strong understanding of modern cloud data platforms including Azure, Databricks or comparable technologies.
- Experience developing strategic product roadmaps and technology investment plans.
- Experience building business cases, strong stakeholder management, and executive communication.
- Experience evaluating enterprise technology platforms and working with strategic technology vendors.
- Cloud experience
- Databricks, Azure, Azure Data factory.
- Ability to work with on prem infrastructure
- Familiar with data engineering
- Data Governance (data classification & PII)
- Data Architecture
- Ingestion/Transformation
- Media specific platform product management
What's in it for you? We believe in investing in our people and helping them reach their potential as valuable members of our team. As part of our team, you'll have access to a wide range of incredible resources, growth opportunities, discounts, and perks, including:
- Competitive salary & annual bonus.
- Competitive & flexible health and dental benefits, pension plan, RRSP, TFSA, and Stock matching programs.
- Discounts: Enjoy up to 50% off Rogers Services and Blue Jays Tickets, 25% off TSC items, and a 20% discount on all wireless accessories sold in Rogers stores.
- Paid time off for volunteering.
- Company matching contributions to charities you support.
Growth & Development Opportunities:
- My Path: self-driven career development program.
- Rogers First: priority in applying to internal roles of interest.
Wellness Programs:
- Homewood employee & family assistance program.
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) & Virtual therapy sessions.
- Low or no-cost fitness membership with access to virtual classes.
Our commitment to the environment and diversity:
- Work for an organization committed to environmental protection.
- Strong commitment to diversity and inclusion with employee resource groups supporting equity-deserving groups including groups representing People of Colour, 2SLGBTQIA+, Indigenous Peoples, Persons with Disabilities and Women. We all bring something different, and we know what makes us different makes us great.
Schedule: Full time
Shift: Day
Length of Contract: Not Applicable (Regular Position)
Work Location: 1 Mount Pleasant (083), Toronto, ON
Travel Requirements: Up to 10%
Posting Category/Function: Technology & Network Design
Requisition ID: 340119
To support career growth, collaboration, and high-performing teams, all Corporate Employees are expected to work onsite. We believe that in-person connection strengthens our culture and drives industry-leading performance.
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