AVP Data Product Owner

LPL Financial Services•Austin, TX

55d•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a strategic and detail-oriented Data Product Owner to lead the development and integration of data products that drive business value and enhance customer experience. This role will serve as the bridge between business stakeholders, technical teams, and data integration partners, ensuring that data initiatives are aligned with organizational goals and executed with precision.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Product Owner or similar role in data-centric projects.
Strong understanding of data management, governance, and analytics.
Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.
Proficiency in Jira, Confluence, and data analysis tools (e.g., SQL, Tableau, Power BI).
Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
Ability to translate business needs into technical requirements and vice versa.
7+ years' experience in data warehouse design, data management, data governance, business intelligence and analytics, or similar.
7+ years and expert level use of reading and coding in SQL.
Proven experience in individual contributor-level data management roles like data analyst, data modeler, data pipeline engineer, BI analyst, or developer.
Solid knowledge base of data governance including data quality rules coding and implementation, data catalogs, quality scorecard development, data lineage, mastering data, and reference data management.
5+ years' experience with JIRA and Confluence
Hands-on data analysis, source-to-target mapping, data lineage tracing, remediation, etc.
Experience coding or reading and understanding data transformations in pipelines.
Experience designing and implementing a variety of data architecture patterns.
Experience using and developing in a variety of RDBMS like AWS, Snowflake, etc.
Agile and lean delivery methods and associated tools like Confluence, Jira, etc.
Solid understanding of relational, star, snowflake data modeling.

Nice To Haves

Wealth management and wealth advisory services industry experience.
Prior people leadership experience.
Prior experience in a data product management role

Responsibilities

Act as the primary liaison between product managers, architects, business stakeholders, and technical teams.
Facilitate clear, consistent, and proactive communication across cross-functional teams.
Collaborate with Compass integration teams to gather metadata, documentation, and data samples.
Champion a customer-centric mindset, ensuring data products meet user needs and deliver measurable value.
Define and document data requirements and acceptance criteria for user stories.
Maintain traceability between business requirements and technical implementation.
Monitor progress of Compass-related features and stories, raising blockers and dependencies proactively.
Represent the data product team in all scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, refinement, retrospectives, and daily standups.
Partner with Compass integration teams to support agile delivery and ensure alignment on data needs.
Provide actionable insights to stakeholders through data exploration and analysis.
Support data-driven decision-making across teams.
Lead and guide Data Analysts in validating reported issues and performing production data validation across environments.
Ensure data products adhere to quality standards and governance protocols.
Support documentation and change management processes, especially regarding impacts to existing Systems of Record (SORs).
Promote best practices in data stewardship and compliance.
Create and maintain business requirement documents (BRDs), use cases, and user stories.
Post and manage relevant artifacts in Confluence for team visibility and alignment.
Track and report on project progress, key metrics, and delivery milestones.