Associate Business Data Product Owner

Manulife•Time, IL

10d•$90,160 - $167,440•Remote

About The Position

The Associate Data Product Owner drives the business value of data assets by shaping and executing the road map for a specific data domain (e.g., Customer, Financial, Operational). Acting as the bridge between business stakeholders and data delivery teams, the Data Product Owner ensures that data products align with strategic priorities and deliver measurable outcomes.

Requirements

3-5 years in data product management, analytics, or product leadership.
Knowledge of BI analytics/concepts and data warehouse platforms.
Problem solver who thinks strategically, results oriented and attentive to details.
Knowledge of the financial services industry with a preference to US Retirement industry experience.
High adaptability and strong critical thinking skills.
Familiar with data and analytics analysis tools and delivery technologies: SQL (mandatory)
Jira/Confluence (an asset)
Databricks (optional)
Best practices in user acceptance testing (UAT).
Exceptional communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Responsibilities

Partner with Data Owners, Stewards and Consumers to create data products that are easy to discover, consume and use for multiple stakeholders’ use cases.
Serve as Business Liaison Act as the primary point of contact for business and analytics teams.
Translate business requirements into actionable data use cases outlined in the Data Catalog
Facilitate and participate in requirements sessions to capture requirements as per the stakeholders' needs
Guide creation of mapping documents that covers business rules, data lineage, ensures data quality and accuracy.
Data Product Ownership Be the primary contact point for the data delivery team on assigned data products by providing requirements to the development team.
Assure data product quality, partnering with data owners & stewards
Facilitate/Coordinate or execute UAT testing.
Promote good data governance practices (e.g. document metadata, capture product data lineage)
Approve data product access requests, establish data access policies
Continuously improve the data product based on feedback.
Establish and monitor KPIs such as adoption rates, time-to-insight, and decision enablement.
Participant in Data Practice Collaborate with fellow DPOs, Stewards, Technical Product owners to improve the tools, process and technology for Retirement Data products.
Recommend and implement new requirements to embed quality, metadata, and governance standards in the ways of working.
Ensure compliance with privacy, security, and regulatory frameworks.

Benefits

health
dental
mental health
vision
short- and long-term disability
life and AD&D insurance coverage
adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits
employee/family assistance plans
retirement savings plans (including pension/401(k) savings plans and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions)
financial education and counseling resources
11 paid holidays
3 personal days
150 hours of vacation
40 hours of sick time