Product Manager/Product Director - Data Platform Team - eCommerce

About the organization :

- One of the largest retail and e-commerce business in the world

- The Bangalore office, with more than 1,200 strong engineers, is helping accelerate innovative strategic initiatives.

Our Team :

- Data Platform team is chartered to be the single stop shop for all data needs for analytics solutions and downstream consumption within the org.. This includes building and supporting the NextGen Data Lake platform, ensuring timely availability of data scale in the Data Lake, productizing analytical models and leveraging the Big Data engineering team for optimal database solutions and support.

- This team ensures availability of quality and governed data from global business functions, that is catalogued and searchable, and stays true to the vision of utilizing - Data as the oil powering exceptional performance

- The platform is built using various open source and enterprise tools that provides exceptional operability, extensibility and performance at petabytes of scale.

The team is spread over multiple locations within US and Bangalore, performing like a true product organization within matrix structure. Specifically, in Bangalore, we own end-to-end ownership of few platform components and operate with total ownership philosophy.

Your Opportunity :

- As a part of data platform solutions team, you will develop and own road map for the org.'s Global Data Lake platform, which needs to ensure it scales for performance, is multi-tenant and leverage the best in class open source tool and technologies.

- Platform will ensure we have a robust lake storage system, feature rich ETL pipeline which abstracts technical details from its users, strong metadata, data governance and security enforced in the platform, and enable & improve self-service to leverage data in lake for consumption.

- In this process, candidate is expected to perform market research, stakeholder interviews, discuss pain points with customers, create design and enable development to deliver world class platform for the org..

- You will be looked upon as a single point of contact in Bangalore for driving the product to prioritize right set of features, align them to business needs and market appropriately to improve adoption.

Your Responsibility :

- Create, own, align the Data Lake product roadmap by performing market research, stakeholder interviews, understanding customer pain points, current ecosystem limitations, & the organizations future business priorities.

- Connect with various stakeholders to market the platform to improve adoption. In this process, own user experience, enable features that track platform usage, enable capturing user response for A/B testing, and improve the self service capability of overall platform.

- Support engineering team to ensure they understand all the expected product features

- Run Beta programs to ensure right features are delivered to end customers

- Adhere to company policies, procedures, mission, values, and standards of ethics and integrity

Your Qualifications :

- Good academic record and graduated (B.E/ B.Tech / M.E / M.Tech) ; prefer an MBA

- 8+ years of Industry experience, focused on solving data & analytics challenges with minimum 4 years of solid product management experience preferably in e-commerce space

- Strong product management experience in data & analytics domain, enabled building data products to solve critical business problems considering user at the center stage.

- Proven experience of leading products from concept through sales or user adoption

- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills

- Good experience of working with globally distributed teams in a collaborative and productive manner