Technical Product Owner, Data

About the position

The Technical Product Owner for the Business Intelligence and Reporting Team is responsible for delivering clear technical requirements to data engineers and analysts. The ideal candidate excels in communication, negotiates prioritization conflicts effectively, and drives discussions on scalable data products. Data is key to decision-making at LendingTree, and the BI and Reporting team relies on the TPO to align business stakeholders and delivery teams while focusing on scalable, modern architectures. The ideal candidate can juggle managing multiple stakeholders, get technical and non-technical people on the same page, and can effectively judge when to fight for getting things done 'right' versus getting things done 'right now.'

Responsibilities

• Define the short-and long-term roadmap for BI and Reporting capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
• Prioritize the delivery of various Data Products and enhancements based on business impact and technical feasibility aligning with company strategy.
• Act as the primary liaison between data engineering, analytics and business stakeholders in marketing, sales and product to translate business requirements into a set of clear requirements.
• Report back to stakeholders on key milestones and deliverables for the BI and Reporting team.
• Drive discussions with stakeholders towards finding solutions that have clear outcomes.
• Drive adoption of data products; maintain documentation and work with teams to build training materials to ensure business users derive the most value from our data products possible.
• Clearly define and communicate acceptance criteria for on requests and translate in a way that technical teams can understand.
• Clearly define the scope, granularity and use cases for our data products.
• Participate in data modeling exercises; ensure that data models support the short- and long-term needs of the business and are future-proof.
• Collaborate with other tech teams to map out technical dependencies for projects, drawing clear lines of ownership and setting expectations with the business.
• Contribute to architecture discussions and advocate for best practices and standards.
• Create and document service level agreements (SLAs) between business and data, as needed for data availability and timeliness.
• Supervise post-deployment validations and ensure smooth transitions to production.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Manager, with a focus on analytics, business intelligence or reporting.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake.
• Experience working with or in data warehouses; familiar with modeling concepts like star schemas, normalization, facts and dimensions.
• Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, managing backlogs and sprint cycles.
• Hands-on experience with BI and reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI.
• Very proficient in writing SQL queries in relational databases.
• Working knowledge of ETL concepts.
• Maintaining documentation in a collaborative environment.
• Proven ability to rally cross-functional teams and effectively manage stakeholder expectations.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for presenting complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical skills with experience in interpreting data and building reports.
• Ability to dive into technical details, including data architecture, ETL processes, and API integrations.