How you can help make a better world of work
We are seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead our Data Platform teams within the Data Intelligence camp. In this role, you will be responsible for the foundations of our data ecosystem, leading two teams: one focused on our modern data stack (ETL/ELT, data lake, catalog, privacy controls) and another dedicated to our streaming and high-performance infrastructure.
Your primary users are internal staff—analysts, data scientists, engineers, product managers, people scientists —who rely on these platforms to manage their data and turn it into insights that improve the world of work for our thousands of customers who use Culture Amp each day in their workplaces. You will be a leader who ensures our data and infrastructure are trustworthy, secure, scalable, and accessible for everyone who needs it.
To succeed you will need to be technically conversant, but keep your focus firmly on the customer impact and commercial outcomes.
What you’ll spend your time doing
- Setting the direction: You’ll own the roadmap for our data infrastructure, focusing on areas like ingestion, storage, and transformation. You will identify opportunities to improve our data architecture and ensure these tools are easily adoptable by other teams.
- Advancing discovery & governance: You will lead the implementation of our data catalog and governance processes. You’ll partner with stakeholders to ensure our data is discoverable and documented, and that we are implementing privacy best practices that meet legal expectations.
- Improving compute & transformation capabilities: You will oversee the evolution of our batch and streaming processing and transformation tools. Your goal is to enable teams to build complex data features, train models, and move data between environments with clear observability.
- Thought leadership & advocacy: Provide thought leadership across many teams to align on a single data strategy for the business, while evangelising the capabilities of our portfolio.
- Scope setting: Applying an analytical mindset to uncovering opportunities and pursuing a deep understanding of organisational goals and empathy of data producer/consumer roles to ensure solutions meet the needs of end users and stakeholders.
- Collaboration & communication: Serve as the point of contact for a range of technical and non-technical stakeholders. You will translate technical constraints into clear trade-offs and outcomes, creating artifacts that communicate both the 'why' and the 'what' of your team's work.
- Product lifecycle management: Drive the adoption of new platform services while managing the retirement of legacy components to ensure a healthy and maintainable tech stack.
What you’ll potentially bring to the table
- Technical roots: You have some experience in a data-centric field such as data engineering, analytics, or data science. You also have familiarity and appreciation for managing data and software infrastructure within cloud-based environments.
- Data domain fluency: You have an understanding of data architectures, such as the difference between ETL and ELT, the nuances of structured vs. denormalized data, and familiarity with patterns like SCD1 and SCD2.
- Platform mindset: You enjoy the challenge of building for internal users. You measure success by how well your platform enables other teams to deliver value to the business.
- Security and privacy advocacy: You bring a genuine enthusiasm for data privacy. You view privacy, security, and legal regulations as essential components of a high-quality and trustworthy data platform.
- Balance of detail and strategy: You can manage the nitty-gritty detailed decisions while maintaining a clear view of the long-term strategy and motivating your team toward it. You are technically conversant enough to lead teams of engineers, but you are someone who keeps the focus firmly on outcomes. You can measure success by how effectively your platform unblocks commercial value for the business.
- Research and communication: You can collect qualitative and quantitative inputs to find patterns and distill them into actionable insights. You have a proven ability to explain complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
- Curiosity & passion: You are what we call a "people geek" - someone who is genuinely curious about the intersection of data, human behavior, and organisational culture.
