Sr. Technical Product Manager, Metadata Collection & Lineage

At data.world, we’re building the world’s most intuitive and intelligent data catalog and governance platform. We’re seeking a Senior Technical Product Manager to lead our efforts in expanding and enhancing metadata collection and lineage capabilities.

In this role, you will lead the strategy and execution of metadata collection and lineage features, balancing customer needs and long-term innovation. You will align product capabilities with customer and market demands, managing a roadmap that reflects a holistic perspective that considers both technical functionality and user experience. You’ll act as the connective tissue between engineering, partnerships, sales, services, and design to ensure metadata and lineage solutions meet user needs and business goals.

This role requires a strong technical background and understanding of how various data, analytics, and AI systems work, and how best to integrate with them. 

This position offers the opportunity to directly shape how organizations unlock the value of their metadata, improve governance, and accelerate onboarding through intelligent metadata and lineage insights.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and drive the product strategy and roadmap for metadata collection and lineage, balancing technical capabilities with market needs and user experience for both technical and non-technical users.
• Lead discovery efforts to identify new opportunities for growth, such as additional integrations or enhanced lineage insights, partnering with internal stakeholders, customers, and external partners to deeply understand their goals, challenges, and feedback.
• Conduct competitive analysis to identify differentiation opportunities for our metadata and lineage capabilities.
• Think holistically about the user experience, ensuring metadata and lineage features are intuitive, impactful, and integrated seamlessly into the overall platform.
• Lead enablement efforts for sales, services, and partners, ensuring teams are equipped with the knowledge, tools, and messaging to effectively communicate the value of metadata and lineage features.
• Collaborate with our services and technology partnership teams to gain access to their software and navigate technical and strategic complexities, ensuring smooth integration with partner systems.
• Act as a trusted partner with the engineering manager to set prioritization and ensure effective execution of the technical roadmap, focusing on long-term scalability, accuracy, and adaptability to changing systems.
• Work with the design and documentation teams to deliver features that meet the needs of a diverse user base, from technical developers to business users.
• Work with marketing to craft compelling messaging that highlights our product’s market-leading features.
• Act as a technical resource for the sales team, addressing customer inquiries and supporting deal strategy. Develop and maintain a library of customer-facing resources (e.g., FAQs, demo scripts, integration guides) to empower sales and customer success teams.

Key success metrics:

• Drive measurable improvements in customer onboarding time by reducing time-to-metadata and lineage visibility and increasing active metadata insights.
• Deliver new integrations on time and aligned with customer demand, ensuring they enhance the value of the platform.

We’d love to see:

• Strategic Leadership: Proven experience (5+ years) in technical product management, including managing roadmaps, defining strategies, and aligning cross-functional teams in enterprise SaaS.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Demonstrated ability to engage with diverse teams, including engineering, partnerships, sales, and services, to align on priorities and enable success.
• Source System Knowledge: Strong understanding of data management systems, including databases, data warehouses, ETL tools, and API integrations.
• Customer Focus: Skilled in gathering insights from users and stakeholders to define features that deliver real impact.
• Holistic Thinking: Experience balancing technical complexity with user-centric design, ensuring features meet the needs of both technical and non-technical users.
• Exceptional communication skills, able to articulate complex ideas to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strategic problem-solver with a focus on achieving shared goals.
• Collaborative and adaptable, with a passion for building impactful products.

Perks & Benefits:

• Competitive compensation with bonus program.
• Up to fully paid health, vision, a