Data Product Manager

Vanguard

Data Product Manager at Vanguard overseeing data products for analytics and insights. Collaborating cross-functionally to align business needs, technical solutions, and data capabilities.

Posted 5/5/2026full-timeMalvern • Pennsylvania • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSCloudPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Guide the development of trusted data products for analytics and insights producers
Act as a central connector within the organization, bridging business needs, technical solutions and data capabilities
Oversee the end-to-end lifecycle of data products, ensuring alignment with strategic use cases
Foster consistency and interoperability across data ecosystem
Collaborate with data engineers, architects, product teams, business leaders, analytics, and other stakeholders to strategize and deliver high-impact, scalable, governed, and reliable data products
Actively engage with the stakeholders to understand their business requirements, create a data product vision and roadmap, and establish an effective feedback loop
Develop deep understanding of operational data stores within your data domain, build strong ties with the product teams, and ensure data quality considerations through the data pipelines
Create and lead a development plan that breaks down the product vision into broader deliverables
Identify obstacles and roadblocks, recommend solutions, and seek others to help remove barriers
Communicate complex design and data concepts clearly in both written and verbal channels.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required
Graduate degree preferred
Minimum of five years related work experience
Two years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred
Strong consultative skills: ability to engage with leaders at various levels and to meet them on their terms
Exceptional strategic and analytical thinking skills
Strong relationship management and influence skills to coordinate across many stakeholders
Deep understanding of the data product(s): the data product development cycle; data flow and data pipelines, from source to analytics; data product standards and best practices
Strong technical skills: understanding of AWS cloud infrastructure and commonly used data services, tools and languages (e.g., Athena, Sagemaker, SQL, Python)
Foundational knowledge in data management, analytics, data engineering (data pipelines, storage technologies, integration, and quality assurance), and alignment with organizational data architecture
Understanding of conceptual, logical, and physical data models
Ability to define and govern metadata and semantics.
Ability to drive high-quality work through a cross-functional team and to execute and drive the development independently, when needed
Comfort with ambiguity and appetite to learn.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Health insurance
401(k) matching
Flexible work hours
Paid time off
Professional development opportunities

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Hard Skills & Tools

data product development cycledata flowdata pipelinesdata product standardsAWSAthenaSagemakerSQLPythondata management

Soft Skills

consultative skillsstrategic thinkinganalytical thinkingrelationship managementinfluence skillscommunication skillsproblem-solvingleadershipcollaborationadaptability