Data Product Owner

U.S. Bank National Association is looking for an experienced Data Product Owner to guide the strategy and execution of data products inside the Investment Services Data Domain. In this hybrid role based in Charlotte, NC, you will translate business needs into governed, reusable data products that can power reporting, analytics, operational decision-making, and AI-enabled use cases.

What you’ll do

• Set and maintain product vision, strategy, roadmaps, and priorities for assigned data products, ensuring alignment with business objectives and enterprise data strategy.
• Work with business stakeholders to surface opportunities, gather requirements, and convert needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and a prioritized backlog.
• Lead intake, prioritization, and roadmap discussions, balancing business value, strategic goals, technical dependencies, risk considerations, and delivery capacity.
• Partner with data engineering, architecture, analytics, and governance teams to design and deliver trusted, scalable, reusable data products for reporting, analytics, operational processes, and AI-enabled solutions.
• Promote data-as-a-product practices, including product ownership, discoverability, documentation, governance, data quality, metadata, lineage, and lifecycle management.
• Drive adoption and continuous improvement through stakeholder engagement, product performance monitoring, user feedback, and measurement of business outcomes.
• Support the evolution of governed “gold” data products to improve consistency, traceability, scalability, and reuse across business and technology teams.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize, modernize, and consolidate data assets and reporting solutions, including support for cloud migration and enterprise data initiatives.
• Contribute to product design, prototyping, data analysis, or development activities when needed to accelerate delivery and establish foundational data capabilities.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent work experience).
• Typically 8 or more years of experience across data, analytics, product management, business analysis, technology delivery, or related disciplines.

Preferred experience

• Experience defining business requirements, user stories, product roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks.
• Experience delivering data, analytics, or technology solutions across business and technology organizations.
• Proven ability to lead initiatives with multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and complex requirements.
• Strong communication, facilitation, stakeholder management, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience managing data products, analytics products, business intelligence solutions, or enterprise data initiatives.
• Strong understanding of data warehousing, data engineering, data modeling, reporting, analytics, and modern cloud data architectures.
• Experience with Snowflake, Databricks, Azure, SQL Server, Postgres (or similar platforms).
• Knowledge of data governance, data quality, metadata management, lineage, stewardship, and data-as-a-product principles.
• Experience defining product KPIs, adoption metrics, service levels, and measures tied to business value realization.
• Experience working in Agile product delivery environments and managing product backlogs.
• Ability to explain technical concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience supporting modernization, including migration of data assets from on-premises to cloud environments.
• Experience supporting Investment Services, Fund Services, Custody, Fund Accounting, Transfer Agency, or other financial services organizations (preferred).

Tools and platforms

• Snowflake
• Databricks
• Azure
• SQL Server
• Postgres

Hybrid schedule

• In-office expectation of 3 or more days per week.
• Flexibility to work outside the office location for the remaining days.

Compensation

USD 119,765 - 140,900 per year

Benefits

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)
• Basic term and optional term life insurance
• Short-term and long-term disability
• Pregnancy disability and parental leave
• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan
• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)
• Up to 11 paid holiday opportunities
• Adoption assistance
• Sick and Safe Leave accruals of one hour for every 30 worked, up to 80 hours per calendar year unless otherwise provided by law