Technical Product Manager - 925
Lightcast
Job Summary
The Technical Product Manager — Data Shares is responsible for making Lightcast data easily consumable across major platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and others. This role blends technical expertise, product management skills, and cross-functional leadership to deliver reliable, share-ready data products. You will own backlog execution, define and enforce data contracts, ensure compliance, and drive successful launches that expand customer adoption and platform reach.
Must Have
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and client needs.
- Own and manage the backlog by translating product manager requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Operate and optimize data listings and entitlements across Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and S3-based delivery.
- Define and enforce data contracts, including schemas, versioning, and deprecation playbooks.
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Governance teams to bake in compliance.
- Coordinate product launches by owning changelogs, migration notes, documentation, and internal enablement.
- Manage incident triage and RCAs for the data shares surface area.
- Monitor and evaluate data quality by setting thresholds for freshness, null values, and duplicates.
- Drive platform expansion by increasing listings, active consumers, and supported platforms.
Good to Have
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management, or a related technical discipline OR equivalent experience
- Experience as a Technical Product Manager, Platform PM, or Solutions Architect in data platforms
- Ability to deliver reliable, compliant, and customer-ready data products
- Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Job Description
The Technical Product Manager — Data Shares is responsible for making Lightcast data easily consumable across major platforms, including Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery, and others. This role blends technical expertise, product management skills, and cross-functional leadership to deliver reliable, share-ready data products. You will own backlog execution, define and enforce data contracts, ensure compliance, and drive successful launches that expand customer adoption and platform reach.
Major Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain a deep understanding of Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and client needs, serving as an expert on how our data is consumed and shared.
- Own and manage the backlog by translating product manager requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria, ensuring the engineering team is unblocked and shipping reliably against roadmap commitments.
- Operate and optimize data listings and entitlements across Snowflake Secure Shares/Marketplace, Databricks Delta Sharing/Marketplace, BigQuery Analytics Hub, and S3-based delivery, ensuring new and updated datasets are published within agreed SLAs.
- Define and enforce data contracts, including schemas, versioning, and deprecation playbooks, to prevent breaking changes and provide clear migration paths.
- Partner with Security, Legal, and Governance teams to bake in compliance related to PII handling, access control, lineage, and auditability, keeping all shares auditable and secure.
- Coordinate product launches by owning changelogs, migration notes, documentation, and internal enablement, while also managing incident triage and RCAs for the data shares surface area.
- Monitor and evaluate data quality by setting thresholds for freshness, null values, and duplicates, ensuring high standards for customer reliability and trust.
- Drive platform expansion by increasing listings, active consumers, and supported platforms quarter over quarter, demonstrating measurable growth in adoption and usage.
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Management, or a related technical discipline OR equivalent experience.
- 1–3 years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, Platform PM, or Solutions Architect in data platforms.
- Hands-on expertise with Snowflake, Databricks/Delta Sharing, and BigQuery sharing models, permissions, and listings.
- Working knowledge of SQL, data modeling, orchestration, and versioning.
- Familiarity with observability tools (tests, monitors, SLIs/SLOs) and governance frameworks (IAM, Unity Catalog, row/column security).
- Proven ability to deliver reliable, compliant, and customer-ready data products.
- Skilled at working effectively with cross-functional teams, including engineering, data, legal, security, and GTM.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Experience with agile methodology, backlog ownership, and roadmap execution.
- Strong technical writing for user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation.