IT Data Platform Product Owner

About the Role

This position is responsible for maximizing the value of Eaton’s AI and Data Platform products by creating, prioritizing, and managing product roadmaps, backlog, and demand. The Product Owner provides oversight across Snowflake, Dataiku, Coalesce, Palantir, and data acquisition/ingestion products, significantly impacting Eaton's business outcomes with work that is foundational to the organization.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate product vision, roadmap, and strategy for AI & data platforms plus data acquisition portfolio (Snowflake, Dataiku, Coalesce, Palantir, ingestion/integration services) to meet customer and business needs.
• Own product backlog, managing and prioritizing user stories, decomposing epics into features, and continuous improvement work.
• Plan, manage, and track product demand, including platform consumption and licensing costs.
• Develop and maintain product-specific personas and customer journeys for stakeholders, data engineers, analysts, and data science consumers.
• Work closely with business stakeholders and customers to understand their priorities and define business outcomes and KPIs for the product.
• Communicate goals for product enhancements and releases, and define goals for team sprints.
• Support the onboarding of internal and external resources, including new data sources, domains, and platform tenants.
• Support product stability and governance, including data quality, data privacy, policy, cybersecurity, access management, and usage.
• Build functional expertise in areas related to the product, modern AI & data platforms, data engineering, and analytics enablement.
• Support the establishment of product processes (e.g., release schedule) and process improvement activities across product processes (Lean, Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, DataOps, etc.).
• Manage technical and operational debt, ensuring alignment within roadmaps.
• Support a Secure Product Development Lifecycle approach, establishing a strong cybersecurity focus and culture across the entire engineering lifecycle.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum six (6) years of experience as a project manager, product owner, architect, BRM, or program lead on technology projects and programs, including experience with AI & data platforms, analytics, or integration products.
• No relocation benefit is offered for this position. Only candidates within a 50-mile radius of Beachwood, OH; Galesburg, MI; Moon, PA; Houston, TX; Menomonee Falls, WI; or Raleigh, NC will be considered. Active-Duty Military Service member candidates are exempt from the geographical area limitation.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship, now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrable understanding of product management and modern product delivery processes.
• General understanding of DevSecOps and DataOps principles.
• General familiarity with modern software platform management and strategic planning.
• Experience with Agile delivery and use of Jira.
• Familiarity with one or more of Snowflake, Dataiku, Coalesce, or Palantir Foundry, and an understanding of cloud data warehousing, transformation, and analytics/AI workflows.
• Experience with data acquisition and integration patterns, including batch and streaming ingestion.
• Understanding of data governance frameworks, AI principles, data products/data mesh concepts.

Skills

• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Familiarity with design thinking methodologies.
• Ability to create and manage product roadmaps across multiple platform products and vendor relationships.
• AI & Data orientation and ability to make data-driven decisions.
• Clear understanding of lean principles with respect to product and portfolio management.
• Comfortable working directly with business leaders, external customers, and engineering teams.
• Experience working with diverse, global cultures, organizations, and teams.
• Ability to manage vendor and partner relationships across multiple platform providers.

Pay

The expected annual salary range for this role is $146,000 - $215,000. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Schedule

Up to 10% travel required.