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Job Description

We are seeking a Product Manager focused on Data Governance and Enterprise Data Products to define and drive governance strategies that ensure data integrity, compliance, and accessibility across enterprise platforms and support key enterprise data products. This role partners with product, data engineering, analytics, privacy, compliance, and business teams to translate enterprise data needs into governed, high-quality data products that support confident decision-making and responsible activation.
The ideal candidate combines product management discipline with practical experience in data governance, metadata, data quality, reporting, consumer data, and identity.

What You Will Own:

• Roadmap for governed datasets, reporting assets, metrics layers, consumer data products, identity signals, and downstream data consumption.
• Governance capabilities that make data discoverable, accurate, secure, compliant, documented, and fit for business use.
• Reporting trust across dashboards, executive reporting, canonical metrics, semantic layers, and self-service analytics.
• Alignment among business stakeholders, data producers and consumers, engineering, analytics, legal/privacy, security, and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Define product vision, success metrics, and roadmap for enterprise data governance and data product initiatives.
• Develop requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and release plans.
• Operationalize standards for metadata, business definitions, lineage, ownership, stewardship, classification, retention, quality, and access controls.
• Partner with engineering on ingestion, transformation, cataloging, quality monitoring, access provisioning, and change management.
• Partner with analytics and business teams on governed reporting datasets, canonical KPIs, semantic layers, and self-service experiences.
• Collaborate with privacy, legal, security, and compliance teams on consent, privacy-by-design, regulatory readiness, and appropriate consumer/identity data use.
• Drive adoption through communications, documentation, enablement, training, and launch planning.
• Track KPIs including data quality, catalog coverage, lineage completeness, access SLA performance, reporting accuracy, policy compliance, resolution time, and adoption.
   

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product management, data product management, data governance, analytics product ownership, or enterprise data platform delivery.
• Experience with governed datasets, reporting assets, data catalogs, data quality capabilities, APIs, identity graphs, consumer data assets, or analytics platforms.
• Strong understanding of metadata, lineage, quality, stewardship, access controls, classification, retention, and policy enforcement.
• Experience working across data engineering, analytics, BI/reporting, privacy, security, compliance, marketing, product, and operations.
• Familiarity with consumer data and identity concepts, including profiles, consent, identifiers, audience attributes, segmentation, identity resolution, and activation controls.
• Ability to turn ambiguous business and governance needs into actionable roadmaps, requirements, and delivery plans.
• Bachelor's degree in business, computer science, information systems, data science, analytics, engineering, or equivalent experience.

Desired Characterics:

• Experience in media, entertainment, advertising, streaming, subscription, digital products, or other consumer-scale data environments.
• Familiarity with SQL, data modeling, warehouses, BI tools, data catalogs, observability, or privacy/consent platforms.
• Experience with GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, privacy-by-design, retention, data minimization, customer 360, audience, personalization, martech, or CDP initiatives.

Additional Requirements:

• Hybrid: This position has been designated as hybrid, generally contributing from the office a minimum of three days per week.
• This position is eligible for company sponsored benefits, including medical, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), paid leave, tuition reimbursement, and a variety of other discounts and perks.
• Salary range:  $105,000-$135,000 (bonus eligible)

Additional Information

As part of our selection process, external candidates may be required to attend an in-person interview with a VERSANT Media employee at one of our locations prior to a hiring decision. VERSANT Media's policy is to provide equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, disability, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

If you are a qualified individual with a disability or a disabled veteran and require support throughout the application and/or recruitment process as a result of your disability, you have the right to request a reasonable accommodation. You can submit your request to [email protected].

VERSANT Media is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. We include a good faith pay range for each position to comply with applicable state and local pay transparency laws and to promote equity across our organization. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, experience, and location and may include additional forms of compensation and benefits such as health insurance, retirement plans, paid time off, etc.

VERSANT Media is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at VERSANT via-email, the Internet, or in any form and/or method without a valid written Statement of Work in place for this position from VERSANT's Talent Acquisition team will be deemed the sole property of VERSANT. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by VERSANT as a result of the referral or through other means.