Senior Technical Product Manager - Data Platforms and Infrastructure

Responsibilities: 

Full product lifecycle ownership: Own the product vision and strategy of Vanguard’s data platforms from incubation to sunset, in alignment with Vanguard’s enterprise data strategy and target state architecture.

Customer-centric product ideation: 

• Monitor market trends and conduct user research to identify opportunities that will define data platform products and product features 

• Collaborate across divisions with our users (e.g., data engineers, architects, analysts, data scientists) to define data products that meet their critical data and business needs 

• Foster a culture of experimentation through MVPs, rapid prototyping, and iterative development, encouraging bold thinking while maintaining a strong bias for execution and learning. 

• Translate insights into actionable and prioritized product features  

Product delivery through innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement 

• Develop and maintain a transparent, outcomes-based roadmap and backlog, partnering and aligning with key stakeholders, including architecture and engineering functions under the CTO, to sequence capabilities based on business priorities and technical feasibility 

• Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to co-create the right features, often leading technical discussions with a deep understanding of data platforms and technologies (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, integration patterns) 

• Conduct usability testing and experimentation to ensure platform features meet user needs 

• Manage product launches, coordinating with project managers for on-time and on-budget releases 

• Define and monitor key product metrics and analyze product performance to continually improve and drive value, inform roadmap and investment decisions, and measure success 

Funding and P&L 

• Partner with finance and engineering leadership to allocate budgets across the product portfolio 

• Use data-driven frameworks to define and manage the OKRs, P&L, and value realization (ROI) of core platform capabilities and data services 

Go-to-market and adoption: 

• Develop and execute go-to-market (GTM) strategies in partnership with enablement, communications, and other support teams 

• Create approach to socialize products and products features along with onboarding and training materials to ensure