Senior Product Owner, Foundational Data Products

Requisition Number: 79458

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Role Summary

The Senior Data Product Owner – Foundational Data Products, plays a critical leadership role within Individual Investors Data Management. The II business is responsible for over $200B in client assets and serves 1.3 million investors. This Senior Product Owner is responsible for core client data, ensuring it is accurate, consistent, trusted, and fit for purpose across all business processes and downstream consumers/platforms.
 

As a people leader, this role leads a high‑performing team that delivers reliable, scalable data products. The Senior Data Product Owner sets clear ownership and accountability for foundational client data, aligns closely with II partners, and drives decisions that move work forward. Through strong data management expertise, the role identifies risks and inefficiencies early and leads practical improvements that modernize data practices and strengthen confidence in core client data across the enterprise.
 

Responsibilities

• Owns foundational client data products end‑to‑end vision, setting the strategy, priorities, and success measures to ensure data is accurate, consistent, trusted, and fit for enterprise use across business processes and platforms.
• Leads and develops a high‑performing team, establishing clear accountability for data outcomes, coaching team members on complex data challenges, and fostering a culture of ownership, quality, and continuous improvement.
• Serves as the primary data partner and advisor to the business on the most complex client data needs, translating business objectives into clear data requirements and ensuring data solutions enable timely, confident decision‑making.
• Drives alignment across cross‑functional partners (technology, analytics, operations, risk, and business stakeholders), influencing decisions to ensure foundational data initiatives support broader business and data strategy goals.
• Identifies and addresses systemic data risks, gaps, and inefficiencies, proactively driving process and control improvements that strengthen data quality, reduce redundancy, and improve scalability and reuse of client data.
• Defines and governs data standards, processes, and controls for the creation, consumption, and lifecycle management of foundational client data, ensuring consistent adoption and adherence across the organization.
• Ensures data products are scalable and sustainable, balancing current business needs with future growth, modernization efforts, and evolving enterprise data practices.
• Acts as the single point of accountability for foundational client data outcomes, providing transparency into data health, issues, and remediation progress, and making informed trade‑off decisions when constraints arise.
   

Qualifications
Required:

• Bachelor's degree or the equivalent combination of education and relevant experience AND 8+ years of total relevant work experience
   

Preferred:

• Certified Product Owner or equivalent and demonstrable experience working in Agile environments (Scrum/Kanban).
• Advanced data domain knowledge: data lineage, metadata management, data quality frameworks, and master data management (MDM).
• Comprehensive working knowledge of investment products specifically within the retail and retirement plan space (e.g., Brokerage accounts, IRAs, ETFs, 401(k), 403(b), defined contribution, defined benefit plans), with demonstrated ability to inform requirements and business decisions.
• Strong knowledge of relational database models and advanced SQL skills for data extraction, profiling, and review.
• Proven experience with end-to-end data flows, dependencies, and translating data design into business outcomes.
• Advanced project management skills and experience leading complex, cross-functional data initiatives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; ability to present technical concepts to business and senior leadership.
• Proven ability to coordinate and collaborate across matrixed teams and stakeholders.
• Self-directed, results-oriented, and able to manage multiple high-priority, sensitive projects simultaneously.
• Strong organization, planning, prioritization, and process-improvement orientation.
• Experience with MS Office (advanced Excel, PowerPoint); familiarity with collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Teams).
• Experience creating, organizing, and executing comprehensive test plans for data pipelines and data products (including test cases, acceptance criteria, data validation, regression testing, and automated test coverage) to ensure data integrity and delivery quality.
• Experience defining and tracking data governance KPIs and using metrics to drive remediation.
• Experience mentoring or developing junior staff and leading capability-building efforts.
   

FINRA Requirements  
FINRA licenses are not required and will not be supported for this role. 
  
Work Flexibility  
This role is eligible for hybrid work, with up to one day per week from home. 

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