Platform Product Director – Data Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Columbus, OH

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About The Position

JPMorgan Chase is seeking an Executive Director to lead the HR and Employee Experience (EX) data platform strategy within the HR-EX Data Products organization. This leader will define and deliver the next-generation HR data platform—enabling secure, self-service access, high-quality data, strong governance capabilities, and scalable analytics.
You will partner with HR-EX leadership, Technology, Workforce Data, Platform Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Data Governance teams to deliver robust platform capabilities in entitlements, catalog/metadata, data quality, lifecycle governance, and usage analytics. This role is critical to modernizing HR’s data ecosystem and empowering data product teams across the function.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions
• Proven success standing up a new data platform or delivering major improvements to an existing platform, with ability to articulate platform objectives, success outcomes, and measurable impact
• Demonstrated experience taking an incremental, sequenced approach to platform implementation while balancing needs across technical and non-technical users (e.g., analysts, dashboard developers, AI modelers, data engineers)
• Strong understanding of modern vendor ecosystems and cloud platforms (Databricks vs. Snowflake vs. MS Fabric vs. native AWS), entitlement platforms (e.g., Immuta, Privacera, Unity Catalog), catalogs (Databricks UC, Unity), AI tooling environments (e.g., Jupyter notebooks), and data quality systems (e.g., Ataccama, DBT)
• Experience with data onboarding, metadata management, governance workflows, and compliance requirements in complex enterprise environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including ability to translate technical platform capabilities into clear business outcomes
• Experience working in control-heavy or compliance-driven environments, with familiarity across multiple lines of defense or regulatory data requirements

Nice To Haves

• Recognized thought leader within a related field

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of self-service, well-governed HR data consumption patterns as next-generation replacements for legacy tools
• Define and implement a secure, flexible HR data entitlements model in partnership with the Entitlements Governance Lead and Data Privacy teams, ensuring simple self-service access, strong auditability, and reduced exception requests
• Own the roadmap for HR-EX data catalog, metadata, glossary, and lineage capabilities, enabling users to easily discover, understand, and trust available data
• Deliver tooling and processes to support data classification, data-concept tracking, and metadata governance, strengthening foundations for entitlements, privacy, and data quality operations
• Lead the selection, implementation, and integration of Business Data Quality (BDQ) tooling to automate validation, monitoring, remediation, and continuous quality improvement across HR datasets
• Establish governance and lifecycle practices for managing different data types in the HR data lake—including data products, temporary datasets, ML/AI datasets—with well defined SOPs and standards for critical calculated fields and measure stores
• Deliver platform usage analytics and DUC (Data Usage Control) adherence reporting to help data product managers measure adoption, value, and compliant data usage
• Partner with HR leadership, Workforce Data, HR Technology, Platform Engineering, Legal, Privacy, and Controls to ensure platform capabilities align with firmwide governance standards, compliance expectations, and control requirements

Benefits

• We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location.
• Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.
• We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility.
• These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more.
• Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees