Business Product Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the vision, strategy, roadmap, and operating model for a new Data Exchange / Data-as-a-Service capability.
• Partner directly with business stakeholders to understand objectives, pain points, data access needs, integration requirements, and emerging AI/data use cases.
• Translate unclear or broad business requests into well-defined problems, outcomes, priorities, epics, features, and actionable requirements.
• Own backlog prioritization based on business value, scalability, dependencies, security, risk, and alignment to broader enterprise initiatives.
• Partner with solution architecture and technical teams to evaluate API strategies, integration patterns, data movement approaches, middleware needs, event-driven concepts, and reusable data access models.
• Cook up delivery across cross-functional teams, including engineering, data, application owners, integration teams, security, legal, platform teams, business analysts, and business stakeholders.
• Serve as the central point of accountability for what is being built, why it matters, when it will be delivered, and how it meets business needs.
• Facilitate delivery activities such as intake, backlog refinement, sprint planning, prioritization discussions, stakeholder demos, roadmap reviews, and dependency management.
• Ensure solutions are secure, governed, scalable, reusable, and aligned with enterprise data architecture.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and value clearly to both business and technical audiences.
• Build credibility quickly with stakeholders of varying technical maturity and push back diplomatically when requests are not aligned to business value or timing.

Required Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in product management, business product management, data product ownership, or technology product roles.
• Proven experience owning product roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, discovery, and delivery coordination.
• Strong understanding of data ecosystems, data movement, integrations, APIs, data pipelines, middleware, and system-to-system data sharing.
• Ability to work closely with solution architects and technical teams without needing to be hands-on engineering.
• Experience partnering with business stakeholders to uncover needs, define outcomes, and translate business problems into actionable product work.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills with the ability to influence teams without direct authority.
• Experience coordinating work across business, data, engineering, application, security, legal, and platform teams.
• Strong communication, facilitation, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and helping build new processes, roadmaps, governance models, and product capabilities from scratch.
• Able to balance customer service, business value, technical constraints, governance, security, and product discipline.
• Must be local to the Twin Cities area or able to work onsite in Cottage Grove, MN three days per week.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Data-as-a-Service, data exchange, data products, enterprise integrations, API-based data sharing, or governed data access capabilities.
• Experience in organizations with distributed business units, franchise/dealer networks, retail operations, field operations, or complex stakeholder groups.
• Familiarity with data governance, permissions, identity/access concepts, security review processes, and legal/compliance considerations related to data sharing.
• Experience supporting business teams that want to use enterprise data for AI, automation, operational reporting, or third-party system integration.
• Experience helping establish a new product function, product operating model, intake process, or prioritization framework.