IT & Software

Lead Data Product Manager

UST Global

Leeds · West Yorkshire · United Kingdom

Overview

In this leadership role, you shape and govern enterprise data products, defining vision, roadmaps, and value delivery across business domains. You’ll lead cross‑functional teams and vendor squads to ensure measurable business outcomes and long‑term platform sustainability. You’ll act as the primary product interface with senior stakeholders, balancing near‑term delivery with strategic objectives. This is a chance to influence data strategy in a high‑impact, cross‑functional environment.

Responsibilities
  • Own and communicate the vision and strategic direction of data products to stakeholders
  • Translate business priorities into outcomes, capabilities, and delivery plans
  • Oversee vendor squads to align with standards and value‑led delivery
  • Define and maintain an outcome‑driven product roadmap
  • Prioritise backlog based on value, feasibility, risk, and user impact
  • Manage inter‑team dependencies to support predictable delivery and release planning
  • Enable collaboration between data engineering, analytics, governance, architecture, and business teams
  • Lead discovery, requirements definition, and validation to ensure value focus
  • Define success measures and KPIs for data products and track realised value
  • Apply industry knowledge to influence strategy and delivery approaches
  • Champion continuous improvement and responsible data usage
Key requirements
  • Senior stakeholder communication and influence
  • Product strategy, roadmap, and backlog leadership
  • Value led prioritisation and decision making
  • Cross functional delivery leadership
  • KPI definition, tracking, and value reporting
  • Strategic thinking and systems perspective
  • Consulting mindset with strong commercial awareness
  • stakeholder management
  • communication
  • influence
  • data product management
  • backlog and roadmap management
  • value measurement and ROI

Reference: WJ-747_30153322

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