Manager, Data Product

Who We Are

At Newrez, we bring big thinkers and caring doers together to make home happen. We’re a team built on heart and hustle, united by a commitment to show up for our customers, our communities, and each other. We believe that when our people thrive, homeowners thrive - and that’s why we invest in your growth, wellbeing, and ability to make an impact.

Every day, we work to exceed the expectations of our residential mortgage borrowers and business partners through superior service, simple processes, and clear communication. We do this by empowering our employees, encouraging innovative solutions and recognizing great performance.

The Manager Data Product will own the roadmap, requirements, and delivery of the core components of the enterprise data platform. This role focuses on foundational capabilities such as ingestion, data pipelines, governance frameworks, and operationalize platform reliability.

Essential Functions, Duties, and Responsibilities

• Translate business and technical needs into data product requirements.  
• Define and maintain the platform foundations roadmap, prioritizing stability, scalability, and adoption. 
• Collaborate with engineering to deliver high-quality platform features and services. 
• Partner with data governance, security, and architecture teams on standards and compliance.
• Help standardize event models, patterns, and governance across the data products. 
• Track KPIs related to data platform reliability, ingestion throughput, and data quality. 
• Ensure the foundational layer enables downstream analytics, ML, and application use cases. 
• Gather feedback from internal users to continuously improve platform usability and performance. 
• Ensure data product adoption and business enablement plan. 
• Ability to effectively and accurately convey information to others.
• Performs related duties as assigned by management.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or a business administration degree preferred.
• 6-8 years’ experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager. 
• Strong knowledge of modern data architectures, data engineering practices, and cloud-native services. 
• Experience building or supporting ingestion frameworks pipelines, or data quality systems. 
• Ability to simplify complex technical needs into clear, actionable product requirements. 
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, architecture, and business team. 

Skills, Abilities, and Knowledge:

• Strong verbal communication skills; strong writing and composition abilities.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to develop and maintain effective and professional relationships across the organization and with customers.
• Strong influencing and negotiation skills; consultative and collaborative work style. 
• High learning agility with the ability to learn and integrate business variables and learn new systems and platforms.
• Strong analytical skills & problem-solving abilities; solid decision-making abilities coupled with sound judgment.
• Effective at managing multiple priorities under tight deadlines in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Strong project management and time management capability.
• Self-directed and comfortable working with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• High degree of professional maturity, integrity, ability to maintain confidential data and information.
• High degree of business acumen; strong technical aptitude. 

Work Environment and Physical Requirements:

• Working on-site at assigned office location.
• Regular and punctual attendance adhering to schedule established by leadership.
• Flexibility to work occasional adjusted work schedules, overtime, and evening and/or weekend hours to meet deadlines or as business needs demand.
• Working in a cubicle hub, maintaining focus on phone calls in a noisy environment within earshot of multiple other conversations.
• Sedentary work in a stationary position at a cubicle for prolonged periods of time.
• Constant repetitive motions required for operating a computer, such as typing and managing phone calls.
• Constantly communicating effectively verbally in English, including accurately exchanging information with others following identification of correct procedures.

Additional Information:

While this description is intended to be an accurate reflection of the position’s requ