Lead strategic initiatives for Data Intelligence product, focusing on data management solutions, including roadmap ownership and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
Actian is a leading provider of data management solutions, empowering businesses to harness the power of their data.
This role offers competitive compensation, including base salary and variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, location, and experience.
We're seeking an entrepreneurial and technical product manager to lead one of our most strategic initiatives for our Data Intelligence product. This is your opportunity to shape the future of Data Management in a dynamic, innovation-driven environment. In this highly cross-functional role, you'll partner with Engineering, Design, Security, and Go-to-Market teams to deliver data management solutions centered around Data Products and Data Contracts. Success requires technical fluency in data products and data contracts, experience designing user-centric features, and familiarity with data quality open standards (e.g., ODCS, ODPS). This is a fully remote, senior individual contributor role with high strategic visibility.
What You’ll Do
- Own the roadmap for Data Products and Contracts within our data intelligence product, focusing on policy enforcement, materialized data products, data quality automation, and business impact analytics. You'll pair strong product instincts with data-informed decision making to deliver results.
- Participate in the product lifecycle from discovery through launch, iteration, and adoption, including setting success metrics, prioritizing features, and ensuring high-quality execution.
- Understanding our customers’ needs and working with them to bring new solutions to market.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives, collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to deliver a best-in-class data management experience.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders and business partners.
- Partner with Go-to-Market teams to position our value proposition, shape product messaging, and drive adoption among technical and executive audiences.
Who You Are
- 5+ years as a Product Manager or a Solution Architect, with at least 1 year owning zero-to-one or early-stage product launches and/or startup experience.
- Strong technical understanding of data products and data contracts.
- Skilled at translating customer and stakeholder needs into innovative product features.
- Track record of shipping enterprise-grade SaaS features from ideation through scale in close collaboration with Engineering, UX Design, and Research teams.
- Able to balance short-term execution with long-term vision.
- Customer-driven and passionate about customer success.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Engineering, Business, or related field.
Preferred qualifications
- Deep domain expertise in data management (e.g., data catalogs, databases, data architecture, key user personas and use cases) is a plus
Top Skills
Data Contracts
Data Management
Data Products
SaaS
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