Major Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain deep understanding of Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and client needs, serving as an expert on data consumption and sharing.
- Own and manage backlog by translating product manager requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria to ensure engineering team delivery aligned with roadmap.
- Operate and optimize data listings and entitlements across Snowflake Secure Shares/Marketplace, Databricks Delta Sharing/Marketplace, BigQuery Analytics Hub, and S3-based delivery, ensuring timely dataset publication within SLAs.
- Define and enforce data contracts, including schemas, versioning, and deprecation playbooks, to prevent breaking changes and provide migration paths.
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Governance teams to ensure compliance on PII handling, access control, lineage, and auditability, keeping shares secure and auditable.
- Coordinate product launches by managing changelogs, migration notes, documentation, internal enablement, incident triage, and RCAs for data shares.
- Monitor and evaluate data quality by setting thresholds for freshness, null values, and duplicates to maintain high standards for customer reliability and trust.
- Drive platform expansion by increasing listings, active consumers, and supported platforms quarter over quarter, showing measurable growth in adoption and usage.
Education and Experience
- Bachelorβs degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management, or related technical discipline OR equivalent experience.
- 1β3 years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Platform PM, or Solutions Architect in data platforms.
- Hands-on expertise with Snowflake, Databricks/Delta Sharing, and BigQuery sharing models, permissions, and listings.
- Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, orchestration, and versioning.
- Familiarity with observability tools and governance frameworks.
- Proven ability to deliver reliable, compliant, and customer-ready data products.
- Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams including engineering, data, legal, security, and GTM.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with agile methodology, backlog ownership, and roadmap execution.
- Strong technical writing for user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.
