Data Product Manager

Job Description

We are seeking a highly motivated individual to be a Product Manager within the Global Data & Analytics team. The Product Manager would own multiple products within the Global Data & Analytics team. This role is responsible for prioritizing multiple product backlogs, balancing new features and requests across teams and coordinating deployments with other Product Owners in the Data & Analytics team. You will also incorporate input from others to create the product roadmap. The Product Manager requires the experience or proven aptitude to develop detailed domain knowledge of multiple products. The Product Manager oversees what work goes to development squads as the lead technology business representative and decision-maker, working in tandem with the product team.

1. Product knowledge and strategy for the future - Technical and business understanding

a) MASTERY OF YOUR PRODUCT

Serve as an expert going deep on how your products work. Understand the data ingest, transform, load, table structures -both inbound and outbound

Understand the technical components of your products and be able to identify key stakeholders

Recognize product performance from an end-user standpoint including data quality, responsiveness, reliability, etc.

Be able to engage in a conversation on all facets of your products, and require others' input only to go particularly deep

b) MASTERY OF THE TECHNOLOGY INVOLVED IN YOUR PRODUCT

Be able to engage in discussions regarding whether your product is using the right solutions, and always looking forward to continuously evolve and improve

Be able to understand the issues involved in major decisions and provide feedback on architecture

c) MASTERY OF THE INNOVATIONS IN YOUR PRODUCT

Form and constantly update a viewpoint on how your product fits into the broader domain

Constantly re-evaluate how your product and architecture are delivering value to the customer/end user/etc. and pivot as needed

2. Stakeholdering / Customer Obsession - Keeping customers top of mind

a) OWN THE PRODUCT ROADMAPS

Continually manage the product roadmaps to support product vision and to deliver on key business priorities

Map the product roadmaps to a single product release plan and provide visibility to markets and other business stakeholders

Maintain documentation of product roadmap and provide visibility to the markets and other business stakeholders

b) BE CUSTOMER OBSESSED - ENSURE YOUR PRODUCTS ARE WORKING WELL AND EVOLVING APPROPRIATELY

Ensure features are built for global functions and markets

Conduct business acceptance of features and epics according to the definition of done

Conduct regular end-user product feedback sessions and enhance products accordingly

Be an advocate for the end-user experience

Leverage your team to ensure these aspects are being accounted for

3. Collaboration Capability - Working with others across the organization

a) BE THE CATALYST FOR COLLABORATION

Join forces with other Product Managers across the organization to ensure alignment and coordination across products as necessary for multi-product work and initiatives

Partner with Initiative Leads & Stakeholders to maximize value delivery

b) OWN THE PRODUCT BACKLOGS

Participate in Intake Product Triage and decompose ideation tickets into Epics & Features with the help of the BTA, Project managers and deployment managers

Prioritize the product backlog for all products

4. Capacity and Resource Management - Managing your product team

a) MANAGE CAPACITY AND DEMAND FOR TEAM

Manage allocated resource and capacity including development, market enablement, bug resolution, and testing and reevaluate based on prioritized roadmap

Leveraging the product roadmap and release plan, provide capacity forecasting to Demand Management so they can engage third parties in advance when additional support or capacity is required

Guide work through McDonald's Demand Management Process