Data Product Manager

About the role
At Vanguard, were committed to helping our clients achieve long-term financial success through clarity, discipline, and a focus on what matters most. As a Date Product Manager, youll play a key role in making high-quality, trusted data accessible across the organization. Your work will enable better decisions, improve client outcomes, and support scalable, enterprise-wide data solutions. Youll collaborate with teammates across engineering, analytics, and business functions to build data products that are reliable, well-governed, and designed for real-world impact.

Core Responsibilities

• Own strategic product leadership for a family of master and reference data products, with endtoend accountability for vision, roadmap, and value delivery across the data lifecycle (ingestion, modeling, quality, orchestration, storage, and consumption).

• Define and evolve the targetstate architecture and operating model for MDM and RDM, guiding maturity progression across domains while balancing governance, scalability, usability, and speed.

• Lead crossfunctional alignment across data engineering, analytics engineering, platform, governance, and business teams to set and operationalize enterprise standards for data modeling, data quality frameworks, data contracts, and lifecycle ownership.

• Translate complex and often ambiguous business needs into cohesive portfoliolevel roadmaps, sequencing initiatives based on risk and business impact.

• Maintain strong technical credibility through handson SQL and data analysis when needed, while primarily operating at a systemlevel view across multiple interdependent data products.

• Oversee resolution of complex, crossproduct production issues, driving root cause analysis and durable remediation for data quality defects, pipeline failures, and downstream analytics breakages.

• Establish and continuously improve data product delivery practices including portfolio backlog management, dependency orchestration, CI/CD for data pipelines, observability, and data freshness monitoring.

• Drive adoption, trust, and consistency of master and reference data across operational systems, analytics, and reporting by improving discoverability, reliability, and clarity of ownership.

• Influence enterprise planning and investment decisions by representing data product risk, technical constraints, and longterm sustainability in senior stakeholder forums.

What were looking for

• QualificationsUndergraduate degree required; advanced degree or equivalent handson experience in data engineering, analytics engineering, or related disciplines preferred.

• 8+ years of experience in data product management, data engineering, analytics, or closely related roles.

• Proven experience owning product vision and roadmaps across multiple, interdependent data products or domains.

• Demonstrated ability to lead large, crossfunctional initiatives and operate effectively in highcomplexity, highambiguity environments.

• Strong technical fluency in data architectures, data modeling, SQLbased analysis, pipeline orchestration, and data quality frameworks and management.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a missionwe're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.