Senior Director, Product Management – Data Platforms & Analytics
Location: UK
Role Overview
The Senior Director, Product Management – Data Platforms & Analytics provides strategic and operational leadership for an enterprise-scale data platform portfolio, encompassing cloud data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML–enabled capabilities, and foundational services consumed by downstream applications and business domains.
This role is accountable for defining and executing platform strategy, establishing strong product governance, and ensuring that data and analytics platforms and products deliver measurable business value, scalability, and reuse. The Senior Director operates as an executive partner across technology, data, analytics, finance, and business leadership, with direct accountability for executive communications and management of annual capital investments.
Key Responsibilities
Data Platform Strategy & Product Leadership
- Define and own the strategy for enterprise data and analytics platforms, including data ingestion, storage, semantic layers, analytics, and AI enablement.
- Provide oversight and leadership for the product strategy and delivery of end-user analytics and data review products utilized throughout the RDS organization.
- Translate enterprise data, analytics, and AI strategy into a cohesive, multi-year platform roadmap aligned to business priorities, regulatory requirements, and technology standards.
- Ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, performance, security, and reuse across multiple products, domains, and customer use cases.
Executive Communication & Stakeholder Leadership
- Serve as the senior product voice for data platforms with executive leadership, clearly articulating strategy, trade-offs, risks, and business impact.
- Develop executive-ready communications including investment proposals, quarterly roadmap reviews, platform health dashboards, and value-realization summaries.
- Partner closely with engineering, architecture, data governance, analytics, finance, and business leaders to align priorities and drive timely decision-making in a highly matrixed environment.
Financial & Investment Management
- Own and govern a $10M+ capital investment budget across data platform initiatives and products, balancing innovation, modernization, and operational efficiency.
- Build and defend business cases for major platform investments, including cloud migrations, platform modernization, AI enablement, and cost-optimization initiatives.
- Track financial performance, ROI, benefits realization, and product adoption metrics to ensure investments deliver measurable business and operational value.
Platform and Product Portfolio Delivery & Value Enablement
- Partner with engineering, architecture, and delivery leaders to ensure platform and product roadmaps are executable, resilient, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Enable downstream product teams by delivering stable, well-documented, and consumable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery and analytics adoption.
People Leadership & Talent Development
- Build, lead, and retain high-performing data platform product management teams.
- Coach and develop senior product leaders, fostering strong skills in platform thinking, financial acumen, and executive communication.
- Promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.
Required Qualifications & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, Life Sciences, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD) preferred.
- Typically requires 10+ years of relevant experience, including senior leadership experience in product management with a focus on data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products.
- Extensive experience leading enterprise data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products at senior leadership level.
- Proven success operating in complex, large-scale, and regulated environments.
- Demonstrated experience owning and governing large capital investment portfolios and influencing enterprise-level decisions.
Critical Skills & Capabilities
Product Management
- Brings significant Product Management leadership experience, with a proven track record of defining vision, owning end-to-end product strategy, and delivering measurable business impact through cross-functional team leadership.
Data & Platform Expertise
- Deep understanding of modern data platform architectures (cloud data platforms, analytics, semantic layers, AI/ML enablement, integration patterns).
Executive Communication & Influence
- Exceptional executive communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex data-platform concepts to non-technical leaders.
- Proven ability to drive alignment and decisions across senior stakeholders in highly matrixed organizations.
Financial & Strategic Leadership
- Strong financial acumen, including capital planning, investment governance, and value realization.
- Experience prioritizing competing initiatives across platform modernization, innovation, and cost efficiency.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Credible senior leader with a track record of building trust across product, engineering, architecture, analytics, and business teams.
- Comfortable navigating ambiguity, leading through change, and driving clarity at scale.
This role is not eligible for UK visa sponsorship.
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