Data Product Lead

Company Profile  

At Sand Cherry Associates, we excel in the design and delivery of strategic customer-centric initiatives through digitally native, data-empowered solutions.  Our client’s confidence in us is centered on exceptionally skilled, high-energy talent working with the support of the full Sand Cherry team.  Finding the right match for this role is a critical aspect of continuing that success.   

Overview  

We are looking for an experienced Data Product Lead. This position will bridge the gap between business needs, data capabilities, and technical teams, ensuring data products are valuable, usable, and well-governed. This involves creating product roadmaps, drafting and refining product requirements, analysis, and product development insights. This position is a hybrid role in Denver, CO, requiring four days on-site each week. Qualified candidates must live in the Denver metro area.  

Duties & Responsibilities   

• Drive Seamless Entertainment program forward in a collaborative data-driven fashion  

• Partner with key stakeholders to understand product requirements 

• Help ID multiple data requests (aggregate) across company 

• Aggregate in a consumable fashion for all  

• Be able to ingest all the data and tell an actionable data product strategy story 

• Manage priority of the projects (kanban/agile)  

• Driving action with stakeholders with varying degrees of technical experience 

• Ensure Data Governance & Data Compliance policies are implemented and enforced 

• Ensure the reliability, efficiency, and quality of data 

• Drive adoption, education, and use of dashboards 

Requirements

Desired Skills and Experience  

• Minimum 5-7 years direct product planning, product operations and product management experience 

• Experience in an Agile or Scaled Agile environment is necessary, as well as experience with JIRA or other tools used in Agile project management 

• Knowledge and understanding of products in a technical capacity, understanding their requirements and related business needs 

• A sharp strategic mind, grounded in customer needs and data-driven insights 

• A track record of managing successful data-rich or analytics-driven products 

• An analytical mindset and the ability to turn ambiguity into clear, actionable plans 

• Experience aligning diverse stakeholders (ranging from highly technical engineers to Product Managers to Marketers to Executives) and driving collaboration across teams 

• Comfort navigating complex requirements and distilling them into simple, elegant solutions 

• Proven results of taking initiative of complex situations 

• Proven ability to build and scale data or analytics products that solve real user problems 

Qualifications/Technical Skill Requirements  

• Ability to extract data via Tableau & Microstratey (PowerBI) and analyzing to build a data driven story 

• Experience with SQL is preferred 

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office products, especially PowerPoint for reporting and executing slide presentations 

• Experience with MS Project and JIRA are helpful 

• Industry experience in digital video products  

• Familiarity working with cross functional teams is necessary 

• Experience managing numerous product lines and providing updates and insights to stakeholders at a variety of levels in a large enterprise organization 

Education/Certifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or other quantitative field  

• PMP certification is helpful 

• Consulting background is helpful 

Compensation

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Colorado, Sand Cherry Associates is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to the State of Colorado and takes into account a wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and delivery model. This role is a 6+ month contract has an hourly rate range of $70 - $85. Years of experience, level of education, geographic location, unique skills/qualifications for the specific role and potential certifications can be key factors in the final compensation for this role. Our benefits package includes health and financial benefits such as medical, dental, vision, 401k and PTO.

Benefits

Our team is unique — we are passionate about what we do. At Sand Cherry, our Consultants know they are impacting and shaping our clients’ industries. We recognize our employees for their contributions. Our culture is one of the most friendly and communicative in the consulting industry. Sand Cherry is not a top-heavy organization. We offer the opportunity to be part of a digital workforce. Discover the experience that only comes with self-responsibility in the workplace. Our team members manage their own workloads and are expected to deliver exceptional work for our clients. Professional career growth is one of our main priorities, as we affirm that investing in our Consultants and empowering our people will also deliver the best results and value for our clients.