Data Product Owner

About the role

Our client, a Fortune Broadcast Media & Entertainment organization, is seeking a Product Owner – Research & Measurement to join their Data & Analytics function on a 9-month contract. In this high-visibility, hybrid role based in New York, you will define and execute the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for a suite of research and measurement data products. You will translate complex business and measurement needs into actionable requirements, prioritized backlogs, and scalable analytics solutions, serving as the primary liaison across Analytics, Research, Ad Sales, Programming, and Marketing teams. This position is responsible for overseeing the end-to-end data lifecycle, ensuring data quality and governance, leveraging AI and automation to enhance insights, and communicating product progress and impact to senior leadership. You will work cross-functionally to deliver high-performance data products that directly inform how the business measures audiences, content performance, and advertising effectiveness across linear, digital, and streaming platforms. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and AI in a collaborative, fast-paced media environment.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and execute the product vision and roadmap for research and measurement data products, aligning strategy with enterprise data and analytics objectives.
• Translate complex business and measurement needs into clear product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Oversee the end-to-end data lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, and modeling across analytics platforms.
• Partner closely with Research and Analytics teams to ensure methodologies, metrics, and calculations meet industry standards and business needs.
• Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI, automation, and agent-based solutions to enhance insights and operational efficiency.
• Establish and maintain data quality standards, validation frameworks, and reconciliation processes; collaborate with Data Governance teams to manage metadata, data dictionaries, and semantic layers.
• Work cross-functionally with Data Engineering and Platform teams to deliver scalable, high-performance analytics solutions; define acceptance criteria and validate outputs against business and data quality standards.
• Anticipate and manage risks related to data changes, vendor updates, and metric evolution or deprecation.
• Serve as the primary liaison across Analytics, Research, Ad Sales, Programming, and Marketing teams; drive product adoption by ensuring solutions are intuitive, well-documented, and aligned with user workflows.
• Gather continuous stakeholder feedback to refine product capabilities and enhance the end-user experience.
• Communicate product strategy, roadmap progress, and business impact clearly to senior leadership and executives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Analytics, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of product management experience, including at least 2 years owning data or analytics products.
• Ability to translate complex research and measurement concepts into actionable product requirements, user stories, and prioritized backlogs.
• Advanced analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with modern data ecosystems, including cloud data platforms, BI tools, semantic layers, and AI technologies.
• Working knowledge of SQL for data validation and analysis.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to present roadmap progress and business impact to senior leadership and executives.
• Experience in media, entertainment, or advertising analytics (strong plus).
• Familiarity with cross-platform measurement (linear, digital, streaming) (plus).
• Hands-on experience with Nielsen measurement and viewership data (plus).
• Exposure to AI-driven analytics, machine learning, or intelligent agents (plus).
• Experience working in Agile product environments; familiarity with Jira and Confluence (plus).
• Knowledge of data governance, metadata management, and enterprise analytics best practices (plus).

Benefits

• High-visibility contract role at a Fortune Broadcast Media & Entertainment organization with direct ownership of a suite of research and measurement data products.
• Opportunity to work at the intersection of data engineering, analytics, and AI in a fast-moving media environment spanning linear, digital, and streaming platforms.
• Cross-functional exposure across Analytics, Research, Ad