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Manager, Data Product Management

UL Solutions
2 days ago
On-site
Northbrook, Illinois, United States
$130,000 - $180,000 USD yearly
Description

Serves as a key leader within the Global Data & Analytics organization, responsible for building, coaching, and guiding a high-performing team of Data Product Owners to deliver scalable, high-impact data and analytics products. This role plays a critical part in shaping how the organization translates data into business valueβ€”owning the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data products in close partnership with business and IT leaders. The manager drives alignment between enterprise priorities and product delivery, ensuring teams focus on the highest-value outcomes and deliver measurable impact.

As a strategic leader, this role oversees the end-to-end data product portfolio, balancing competing priorities, investments, and dependencies across a global landscape. They enable consistent, high-quality execution by establishing strong product management practices, clear backlogs, and outcome-based success measures, while removing barriers and resolving cross-functional challenges. The role is central to driving adoption, usability, and business value from data products, and ensures tight collaboration across business stakeholders, engineering, architecture, and governance teams.



Responsibilities
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of Data Product Owners responsible for defining, prioritizing, and advancing data and analytics products.
  • Define and oversee the vision, strategy, and roadmap for data and analytics products in partnership with business and IT leaders.
  • Ensure data product roadmaps align with enterprise priorities, business strategy, and technology direction.
  • Guide product teams in translating business needs into clearly defined capabilities, release plans, and outcome-based priorities.
  • Partner with business stakeholders to understand priorities, pain points, and opportunities, and facilitate ideation and discovery for new and enhanced data products.
  • Oversee the data product portfolio, including intake, evaluation, prioritization, sequencing, and investment planning across competing priorities and dependencies.
  • Work closely with engineering, architecture, analytics, and data governance teams to ensure requirements are clear, actionable, and aligned to strategic goals.
  • Ensure Data Product Owners maintain high-quality backlogs, business cases, success measures, and release plans.
  • Remove barriers and resolve cross-functional issues that impact product delivery, adoption, or value realization.
  • Define and monitor key performance measures for data products, including adoption, business impact, usability, quality, and stakeholder satisfaction.


Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience in data, analytics, or product management roles, including delivery of data products such as dashboards, semantic models, and data platforms that drive business valueΒ 
  • 3+ years of people leadership experience managing product owners, analysts, or data professionals, with a track record of hiring, coaching, and developing high-performing teamsΒ 
  • Proven experience defining and executing data product strategy, roadmaps, and prioritization, aligning to business goals and enterprise data strategyΒ 
  • Strong ability to translate complex business needs into clear product requirements, capabilities, and outcome-based delivery plansΒ 
  • Experience managing a portfolio of data and analytics products, including intake, prioritization, dependency management, and investment planningΒ 
  • Solid understanding of modern data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Azure), data modeling concepts, and BI/analytics toolsΒ 
  • Familiarity with data governance, data quality, and master data management practices to ensure trusted and compliant data productsΒ 
  • Experience working within Agile delivery models, including backlog management, sprint planning, and cross-functional collaborationΒ 
  • Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence business and IT leaders and drive alignment across global teamsΒ 
  • Proven ability to define and track product success metrics such as adoption, business impact, usability, and qualityΒ 
  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)

What you’ll experience working for ULSΒ 

UL Solutions has been pioneering change since 1894 and we’re still leading the way. From day one, we’ve blazed a trail protecting the planet and everyone on it. Our teams have influenced billions of products, plus services, software offerings and more. We break things, burn things and blow things up. All in the name of safety science.Β 

That’s where you come in β€” because none of it could happen without you. It takes passion to protect people, problem-solving to safeguard personal data and conviction to make the world a more sustainable place. It takes bold ideas and brilliant minds to build a better world for future generations across the globe.Β Β 

This is more than a job. It’s a calling. A passion to use our expertise and play our part in creating a more secure, sustainable world today β€” and tomorrow. As a member of our safety science community, you’ll use your ideas, your energy and your ambition to innovate, challenge and ultimately, help create a safer world.Β 

Everyone here is unique. But we’re also a global community, working together to help create a safer world. Join UL Solutions and you can connect with the brightest minds in the business, all bringing their distinct perspectives and diverse backgrounds together to deliver real change.Β 

Empowering our customers to keep the world safe means thinking ahead. It means investing in training and empowering our people to learn and innovate. At UL Solutions, weΒ help build a better future β€” one where everyone benefits.Β 

Join UL Solutions to be at the center of safety. To learn more about us and the work we do, visitβ€―UL.com

Total Rewards: We understand compensation is an important factor as you consider the next step in your career. The estimatedΒ salary range for this position is $130,000 to $180,000 and is based on multiple factors, including job-related knowledge/skills, experience, geographical location, as well as other factors.Β This position is eligible for annual bonus compensation with a target payout of 20% of the base salary. This position also provides health benefits such as medical, dental and vision; wellness benefits such as mental and financial health; and retirement savings (401K) commensurate with the standard rewards offered in each individual location or country. We also provide full-time employees with paid time off including vacation (15 days), holiday including floating holidays (12 days) and sick time off (72 hours).

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