Lead Product Manager

Job Description

Key Responsibilities

• Own the vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for the data platform, aligning it to business goals and client needs.
• Define and prioritize the data product backlog, balancing new capabilities, technical health, and stakeholder demand.
• Set clear outcomes, success measures, and release priorities, and hold the product function accountable for delivering them.
• Cook up and coordinate across business, data, technology, and client-facing stakeholders to align on priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing.
• Serve as the central point of contact for the data product, resolving competing demands and driving decisions to closure.
• Partner closely with engineering and data teams to translate the roadmap into well-defined requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Guide the build through delivery cycles, making prioritization calls and unblocking the team as needed.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and platform standards are built into what the team delivers.
• Communicate roadmap, progress, risks, and key decisions to senior leadership through clear narratives and executive-ready materials.
• Build support for the product vision and secure alignment and investment from senior stakeholders.
• Use market, competitor, and capability insights to shape data product positioning and investment decisions.
• Define objectives, KPIs, and governance cadences, and continuously improve how the product function operates.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in product management or product ownership roles, strategy roles with a focus on data.
• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting product strategy, roadmaps, and delivery for data platforms, data products, or complex technology products.
• Experience working directly with senior leadership and coordinating stakeholders across complex, cross-functional organizations.
• Strong understanding of data platforms and data products such as data pipelines, data quality, and governance concepts, with the ability to engage credibly with engineering.
• Knowledge of Snowflake and other cloud platforms would be a bonus.
• Proficiency with product and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, and roadmapping software.
• Strong grounding in product ownership and Agile delivery, including roadmapping, backlog management, prioritization, and writing clear requirements and user stories.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline required. Advanced degree preferred.

Soft Skills

• Structured, analytical thinking with a strong product and data mindset and a bias toward decisive problem-solving.
• Ability to operate independently, own outcomes, and manage multiple workstreams in a fast-paced environment.

Base Compensation Range

The base compensation range for this role in the posted location is: 140,000 to 160,000 Capgemini provides compensation range information in accordance with applicable national, state, provincial, and local pay transparency laws. The base compensation range listed for this position reflects the minimum and maximum target compensation Capgemini, in good faith, believes it may pay for the role at the time of this posting. This range may be subject to change as permitted by law. The actual compensation offered to any candidate may fall outside of the posted range and will be determined based on multiple factors legally permitted in the applicable jurisdiction. These may include, but are not limited to: Geographic location, Education and qualifications, Certifications and licenses, Relevant experience and skills, Seniority and performance, Market and business consideration, Internal pay equity. It is not typical for candidates to be hired at or near the top of the posted compensation range. In addition to base salary, this role may be eligible for additional compensation such as variable incentives, bonuses, or commissions, depending on the position and applicable laws.

Benefits

Capgemini offers a comprehensive, non-negotiable benefits package to all regular, full-time employees. In the U.S. and Canada, available benefits are determined by local policy and eligibility and may include: Paid time off based on employee grade (A-F), defined by policy: Vacation: 12-25 days, depending on grade, Company paid holidays, Personal Days, Sick LeaveMedical, dental, and vision coverage (or provincial healthcare coordination in Canada)Retirement savings plans (e.g., 401(k) in the U.S., RRSP in Canada)Life and disability insuranceEmployee assistance programsOther benefits as provided by local policy and eligibility