Data Product Manager
Job Description
Contract Data Product Manager at Adobe via NextDeavor leads the vision and roadmap for analytics datasets, semantic layers, and dashboards, delivering reusable, analysis-ready data products in a hybrid onsite model to drive adoption and informed decision making.
Responsibilities
- Own the long term vision and roadmap for analytics datasets, governed metrics, and dashboards to enable reliable insights for business stakeholders.
- Collaborate cross functionally with data engineering, data science, and analytics teams to deliver reusable, analysis ready data products in a Hybrid (3 days onsite) model.
- Reduce metric disputes, expand self service analytics, and improve decision making across the organization.
- Define and maintain a multi year plan for analytics datasets, semantic layers, and dashboards.
- Translate business questions into durable data products including canonical datasets, semantic layers, and standardized dashboards.
- Establish and manage a prioritized intake process for analytics requests, balancing quick wins with foundational investments.
- Create and maintain KPI frameworks and single source of truth metric definitions.
- Own dashboard strategy, including build decisions, retirement plans, and usability/adoption improvements.
- Partner with Data Engineering to shape data models, pipelines, and data contracts.
- Partner with Data Science and Analytics to ensure datasets are analysis ready and reusable.
- Act as the primary cross functional point of accountability from concept through launch and iteration.
- Write clear requirements for datasets and dashboards, covering metric definitions, grain, dimensions, filters, and refresh expectations.
- Maintain documentation and usage guidelines in a team wiki.
- Implement and run operating cadence: Jira epics/stories, sprint planning, prioritization, and release communication.
- Drive quarterly planning, resourcing conversations, milestone tracking, and stakeholder reviews.
- Define and track success metrics for data products, including adoption, data quality, freshness, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction.
- Establish monitoring and incident triage processes to enable self-serve analytics through discoverability, documentation, and training.
- Operate in a hybrid onsite model with three days on site in San Jose, CA.
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience.
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- Working proficiency in SQL and strong fluency in data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and event based data.
- Experience with BI and dashboarding ecosystems such as Looker, Tableau, Power BI or similar.
- Familiarity with semantic and metric layers and governed, reusable metric definitions.
- Strong product management skills applied to data and analytics products, including roadmap ownership and prioritization.
- Proven ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear dataset and dashboard requirements.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Hands on experience running Jira workflows and building intake, planning, and release operating mechanisms.
- Ability to create clear documentation and manage knowledge in a wiki environment.
Technologies
- SQL
- Looker
- Tableau
- Power BI
- Jira
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Vision insurance
- Dental insurance
- Paid sick leave eligibility (state-dependent)
- Optional 401k Plan (excludes employer match)
Pay range: $54.65 - $68.31 per hour
Work Location
- Hybrid remote in San Jose, CA 95113
Interested candidates should submit their resume for consideration.