Staff Data Product Manager
About the role
Michels Corporation engages 10,000 people and 18,000 pieces of heavy equipment in our insatiable drive to be the best. Our work improves lives. The Staff Data Product Manager shapes Michels' enterprise data strategy and leads the effort to define, prioritize, and manage the data products that give the organization self-service access to trusted, reusable data. As a founding leader on the Enterprise Intelligence team, this person guides the standup and evolution of the enterprise data platform, working closely with stakeholders to understand their needs, identify high-value opportunities, and make deliberate investments that balance early wins with the durability, governance, and scalability required for the long term. Ultimately, this role determines how effectively data powers analytics, reporting, operational insight, and AI across the Michels Family of Companies.
Why Michels?
- Consistently ranked among the top 10% of Engineering News-Record’s Top 400 Contractors
- Steady, strategic growth revolves around a commitment to quality
- Family owned and operated
- Invest an average of $5,000 per employee on training each year
- Reward hard work and dedication with limitless opportunities
- Believe it is everyone’s responsibility to promote safety, regardless of job titles
- Offer a comprehensive benefits program including Health, Dental, Life, Flexible Spending Accounts, Health Savings Account, Short Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance, 401(k) plan, Legal Plan, and Identity Theft and Monitoring Plan
Why you?
- Thrive in fast-paced environments under tight deadlines
- Enjoy collaborating and communicating with teammates
- Like to know efforts are noticed and appreciated
- Have strong time management, verbal, and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Engage stakeholders across business and technology to surface pain points, clarify needs, and uncover where better data improves decisions
- Prioritize the highest-value opportunities, deciding which platform capabilities are worth enabling and which products are worth building and why to maximize business value as the platform is established
- Define curated, intuitive data products, including tables and semantic models, across all domains
- Translate business needs into actionable stories and acceptance criteria, then guide engineering through development, testing, and delivery
- Uphold quality and consistency standards so the data assets are documented, dependable, and suited for self-serve consumption
- Measure adoption and outcomes, using those signals to validate value and guide what comes next
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, a quantitative field, or equivalent practical experience
- 7+ years of experience in data product management, guiding cross-functional teams to deliver data products on a scalable cloud data platform for enterprise consumption
- Proven experience defining product roadmaps, requirements, user stories, and success metrics while guiding products or platforms through the full lifecycle from discovery through adoption
- Strong understanding of data management concepts including data governance, metadata, data quality, data lineage, and the principles required to build trusted and reusable enterprise data assets
- Exposure to leading cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, BigQuery, or similar technologies