Data & Analytics Governance Product Manager

Job Description

When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the V Team Life.

What you’ll be doing...

The Data & Analytics Governance Product Manager helps define the product vision, strategy and roadmap to realize and advance the Verizon Data Marketplace’s Governance charter to make data discoverable, usable, protected, and compliant across the company. Use a business and design thinking centric approach to understand and come up with an innovative solution with impactful OKRs with the business. Then work with the cross-functional teams to develop, catalog, govern, launch and publish the governed data into the Marketplace with monitoring and feedback loop to continuously improve and increase use across Verizon.

Responsibilities include:

• Employing Design Thinking & Product Management methodologies to advance the Verizon Data Marketplace’s governed data charter & roadmap with impactful business outcomes and adoption.
• Articulating and prioritizing business, functional and technical requirements for the Marketplace and its governed data, then work with the functional teams to design, develop, playback, communicate & launch with high touchpoints with the business users throughout to maximize adoption, productivity and efficiency. Prioritizing new requirements with backlog and defects.
• Working with business units and corporate security to analyze policies and data flows to define standards & rules.
• Continuously driving improvement and automation to achieve self-service publish and managing of data in the Marketplace by data owners across Verizon business units, includes auto discovery, auto classification, auto cataloging & auto publishing.
• Instrumenting, building and maintaining usage and behavioral dashboards with focus on anomalies to continually improve adoption and business value of the Marketplace and its governed data.
• Effectively communicating the charter, strategic roadmap, solution, status & any issues mitigations verbally and via presentations/reports to effectively resonate with business or technical audiences to align and execute.
• Identifying and driving business impactful innovations.
• Assessing environments, prospective technologies, options to resolve identified problems, champion continuous improvement initiatives.

What we’re looking for...

High performance self-starting resilient Product Management professional experienced with the SDLC of 3-tiered solutions & services with global cross-functional team. Candidate will possess excellent people, team and organizational skills.

You’ll need to have:

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience Managing Product Global Software Development Lifcycle (SDLC) cross functional team on 3-tiered Solutions and reusable/extensible Services.
• Experience with Data & Analytics products.
• Proven critical thinking with effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven analytical and reporting skills.
• Proven leadership experience in a business or function role, working end-to-end with cross-functional teams to deliver and manage products.
• Proven experience applying Design Thinking and Product Management methodologies to create an inclusive business/user first culture and solutions.
• Proven experience integrating Business and Enterprise strategies.
• Proven experience leading and working across global cross functional teams.

Even better if you have one or more of the following:

• Bachelors of Science degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering with Design Thinking.
• Masters of Computer Science with Design Thinking.
• Eight or more years of relevant experience in Technical Solutions Product Management.
• Governance experience and knowledge.
• Experience creating and managing a democratized and/or monetized Data Marketplace.
• Experience creating and nurturing a positive team collaboration and results oriented culture.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

Where you’ll be working

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum eight assigned office days per month that will be set by your manager.

Scheduled Weekly Hours

40

Equal Employment Opportunity

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer - and celebrate our employees’ differences, including race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, and Veteran status. At Verizon, we know that diversity makes us stronger. We are committed to a collaborative, inclusive environment that encourages authenticity and fosters a sense of belonging. We strive for everyone to feel valued, connected, and empowered to reach their potential and contribute their best. Check out our diversity and inclusion page to learn more.