Data Enablement Product Manager

YouGov • Portland, OR

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About The Position

The Data Enablement Product Manager owns the planning and prioritization layer between the Data Enablement engineering team and the internal stakeholders who depend on it. The role gathers stakeholder needs, translates them into a coherent and prioritized plan, and aligns engineering capacity with that plan in agreement with the Data Enablement Director and engineering managers. It carries product-management authority over prioritization, guided by department and company goals, rather than serving only as a coordination function.

The Data Enablement Team builds and maintains foundational data infrastructure, including data ingestion, transformation, and modeling. It provides clean, reliable, accessible data through a centralized data warehouse, enabling teams such as product, finance, and marketing to manage their analytics and reporting independently. The team uses modern tools including Snowflake, dbt, and Python.

The role also documents and communicates the team's responsibilities, systems, processes, and impact to stakeholders, helping make the team's work and contribution visible.

Requirements

• Proven experience managing the development of internal software or data assets, ideally within an engineering, platform, or data organization.
• Experience working with technical and non-technical stakeholders and translating between them.
• Working knowledge of databases, ETLs, and BI tools sufficient to have informed conversations with engineers about feasibility and trade-offs.
• Demonstrable experience with request-management and prioritization frameworks in a technical environment.
• Experience contributing to governance or process improvement within a team.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to document processes clearly for a technical audience.
• Ability to work independently, use sound judgment on prioritization, and raise complex or cross-team trade-offs with the Data Enablement Director.
• Embrace the YouGov values.

Nice To Haves

• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, or similar modern data platform tools.
• Experience with project or work-tracking tools such as Jira or Confluence.
• Experience improving or establishing planning processes within an existing technical team.
• Background in data governance, data cataloguing, or data quality frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Own stakeholder communication for the Data Enablement team and act as the primary point of contact for internal teams requesting data, reporting, or pipeline work.
• Gather, triage, and prioritize incoming requests across the team's engineers, balancing stakeholder needs against department and company goals.
• Manage prioritized work as projects, track progress, and communicate timelines and trade-offs to stakeholders.
• Create and maintain documentation covering the team's responsibilities and the systems it owns.
• Develop and maintain practical processes for requesting, prioritizing, and delivering work, with guidance from the Data Enablement Director.
• Build awareness of the team and its work by documenting and presenting its impact to stakeholders.
• Collaborate with the Data Enablement Director and engineering managers to align prioritization with team capacity and technical constraints.

Benefits

• Paid vacation, holidays, and sick days.
• Flexible working arrangement available.
• Group medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Company-paid life and disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Certain roles may be eligible for incentive compensation and additional benefits.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed