Sr Data Product Mgr

Sr Data Product Mgr - Contract - Denver, CO - $68.00 - $74.00/hr.

The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate's/applicant's qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking an Sr Data Product Mgr in Denver, CO.

Role Description

Will need to be visionary and think through longer term strategy - Planning 1-3 year vision.
Should have a good understanding of the user (store Leaders).
Should be technical - understand how dashboards are configured.
Should be able to work cross domains and with those stakeholders.
Need to have very strong communication skills - handle tachnical discussions and uplevel it, leadership communication skills. Comfortable speaking with VPs.

Product Strategy and Roadmap
Own the multi-year vision: from today's reliable Looker reporting through intelligence and proactive next-best-action capabilities.
Move a fragmented, desktop-bound reporting environment to intelligent, device-agnostic, role-based reporting, delivered in prioritized increments.
Maintain momentum on metric definition and certification work.
Be the product voice in architectural and data governance discussions.
Delivery and Execution
Drive delivery across active initiatives and optimizations.
Write user stories and acceptance criteria across domain dependencies without support; keep a refined backlog sequenced by user impact, business value, and engineering effort.
Proactively identify and manage risks, cross-team dependencies, and sequencing tradeoffs, escalating with documented recommendations when appropriate.
Define and track success metrics for shipped features; drive root cause analysis and roadmap adjustments based on telemetry and user feedback.
User Research and Insights
Understand and lead discovery as needed with full user population (store leaders, department managers, sellers, etc.), synthesizing findings independently to identify unmet needs and prioritization signals.
Stakeholder Alignment
Drive alignment across a complex matrix: Insights Delivery Engineering, CIA/data team, business stakeholders, store operations, and director/VP leadership.
Own communications up and down the pyramid, from technical tradeoffs with engineering to business impact narratives for leadership review. Level Expectations: PM Sr (Level 17)
This role is calibrated to the PM Sr anchor in IC Product Talent Framework. The
following expectations define the bar for this engagement:
Collaboration and Influence
Encourages innovation across functions and domains; orchestrates planning within the
store reporting domain and across dependencies.
Influences roadmap up and down the pyramid; ensures seamless collaboration for impactful deliveries without relying on manager direction.
Discovery and Insights
Leads customer research independently; synthesizes findings into clear opportunity statements and prioritization inputs.
Demonstrates deep understanding of market and competitive trends in retail analytics and BI; incorporates those signals into roadmap decisions.

Skills & Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, with a demonstrated track record of owning a product domain end-to-end at the Senior PM level.
Experience with enterprise BI and reporting platforms, particularly Looker, and how they integrate with modern cloud data ecosystems (Google Cloud Platform/BigQuery strongly preferred).
Hands-on experience driving platform migration or consolidation efforts, including legacy deprecation, user change management, and stakeholder alignment.
Strong foundational knowledge of data governance concepts: metric certification, semantic layers, data ownership models, and the distinction between data producers and consumers.
Fluency in data engineering and analytics fundamentals, SQL, data warehousing, pipeline concepts, sufficient to engage credibly with engineering on tradeoffs.
Demonstrated ability to operate independently in ambiguous, matrixed environments; proactively identify and closes gaps without waiting for direction.
Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to produce crisp, audienceappropriate artifacts for both leadership and engineering audiences.
Experience with conversational analytics, agentic AI, or LLM-powered product development.
Familiarity with store operations context, store leader personas, or retail workforce management.

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

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