Data Product Owner Role
About The Position
Data Product Owners turn data assets into products people can understand, trust, and use. They set the direction for datasets, dashboards, APIs, analytical services, and other data capabilities, then keep delivery focused on the users and mission outcomes those products are meant to serve. The work combines discovery, prioritization, and delivery. Data Product Owners learn how users make decisions, translate those needs into a roadmap and an ordered backlog, define acceptance criteria, and work with engineers, analysts, designers, governance specialists, and program leaders through release and adoption. They make hard tradeoffs visible and keep asking whether the product is producing value, not merely whether the team shipped it.
Requirements
- A working foundation in product ownership or product management, including discovery, roadmaps, backlog management, and iterative delivery.
- The ability to turn user and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and priorities.
- Sufficient data fluency to discuss schemas, data quality, analytics, interfaces, and technical tradeoffs with delivery teams.
- Experience using qualitative and quantitative evidence to evaluate adoption, usability, and outcomes.
- The judgment and communication skills to make tradeoffs in regulated or mission-critical environments where accountability matters.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Agile delivery.
- Experience with user research.
- Experience with product analytics.
- Experience with data governance.
- Experience with a particular mission domain.
Responsibilities
- Develop product visions and roadmaps that connect user needs, agency priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Create prioritized backlogs, user stories, acceptance criteria, and release plans that give delivery teams clear decisions.
- Implement discovery and feedback practices that bring users into product development before and after release.
- Define measures of adoption, quality, timeliness, usability, and mission value that guide the next investment.
- Establish working agreements across engineering, analytics, governance, security, and program teams so ownership remains clear from idea through operation.
Benefits
- Compensation, benefits, work location, and employment terms are set for each specific opening and will be stated with that opening.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
