
Senior Product Manager, Self-Service Analytics Platforms
Cargill
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Wayzata • Minnesota • United States
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About the role
- Own the product vision and strategy for enterprise analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, KNIME) aligned to business outcomes, analytics maturity, and enterprise D&A strategy
- Define and maintain a multi-year product roadmap that balances innovation, scalability, governance, cost optimization, and user enablement
- Serve as the primary point of accountability for platform success, adoption, and value realization
- Act as Product Owner for analytics platform capabilities, including: writing and refining epics, features, and user stories while managing and prioritizing the product backlog
- Accepting delivered functionality based on defined outcomes
- Partner closely with platform engineering, automation, and data teams to ensure timely and high-quality delivery
- Drive clear trade-offs and prioritization decisions based on impact, risk, and enterprise value
- Partner with Analytics Governance leads to embed standards, guardrails, and compliance into platform capabilities rather than relying on manual oversight
- Enable federated teams through certified patterns, templates, metadata, and reusable assets
- Ensure analytics platforms support privacy, security, regulatory, and enterprise risk requirements
- Actively engage analytics communities of practice to gather feedback, surface pain points, and drive adoption
- Communicate roadmap, priorities, and changes clearly to a large and diverse user base
- Define and track success metrics such as adoption, usage patterns, performance, cost efficiency, and governance compliance
- Use platform usage insights and metadata to inform roadmap decisions and identify optimization opportunities
- Continuously evolve platform capabilities to support emerging needs, including GenAI-assisted analytics and new ways of working
Requirements
- Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience
- Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Ownership, Analytics Enablement, or Platform Management
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale analytics tools (Power BI, Tableau, KNIME, or similar)
- Strong understanding of federated data and analytics operating models
- Proven ability to balance governance, user experience, and scalability in complex environments
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and prioritization skills
- Preferred Qualifications: Experience working within an Analytics COE or platform team, Familiarity with data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Hadoop) and semantic modeling concepts, Experience enabling self-service analytics at scale, Exposure to GenAI or AI-enabled analytics capabilities, Agile / Scrum Product Owner certification or equivalent experience.
Benefits
- Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Vet
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Hard Skills & Tools
Product ManagementProduct OwnershipAnalytics EnablementPlatform ManagementAgileScrumData PlatformsSemantic ModelingGenAIAI-enabled Analytics
Soft Skills
Stakeholder ManagementCommunicationPrioritizationGovernanceUser ExperienceScalabilityCollaborationFeedback GatheringAdoption DrivingTrade-off Decision Making
Certifications
Agile / Scrum Product Owner Certification