Data Product Lead
$150,000–$190,000 year
HybridOakville, Ontario, Canada
Job Summary
Embed with sales, marketing, product, and internal teams to uncover real problems and translate them into scoped, estimable product opportunities. Own and maintain the single, prioritized backlog of candidate data products using a transparent, three-axis scoring model. Define requirements, data definitions, and acceptance criteria for each product so engineers build against a clear target. Partner with the Data Architect to shape and pressure-test solution design, validating outputs and driving adoption inside the business. Keep leadership and business owners aligned on sequence, tradeoffs, and the reasoning behind every prioritization decision. In your first 90 days, inventory existing demand, publish v1 of the ranked backlog, and align with the Data Architect so the build starts the moment the architecture is ready.
Required Qualifications
- Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst working directly on data, analytics, or reporting products
- A proven track record of turning ambiguous business needs into scoped, prioritized deliverables that shipped and landed
- Strong commercial instinct — you can reason about revenue, retention, cost, and risk, and defend a ranking to a skeptical executive without flinching
- Genuine technical depth in data infrastructure and modern data stacks: enough to solution alongside an architect, pressure-test feasibility, and hold a credible design conversation
- Comfort operating across functions — as fluent with a sales leader as with a data engineer
- Clear, structured written communication; your backlog and your reasoning are visible, durable artifacts that the whole team can work from
- This position will be hybrid with 3 days/week in our Oakville, ON office. (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday)
Desired Qualifications
- Familiarity with public sector, GovTech, or B2B SaaS environments
- A hands-on background building data or analytics products earlier in your career, not just managing them
- Experience introducing a scoring or prioritization framework to a team that didn't have one
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