Sr. Data Product Manager
WEX is an innovative payments and technology company leading the way in a rapidly changing environment. Our goal is to simplify the business of running a business for our customers and free them to spend more time, with less worry, on the things they love. We are on a journey to build a unified, world class user experience across our products and services and leverage customer driven innovation to power our growth and strategic initiatives.
As we lean into our mission to “simplify the business of running a business”, WEX is looking to simplify and reimagine experiences, starting from the customer perspective. The Data & Analytics team is looking for a Sr. Data Product Manager to own the execution and delivery of the product roadmap by collaborating across the business on the product roadmap with an emphasis on creating simple, scalable data products.
About the team:
This is a really exciting time to be working in Data & Analytics at WEX. We are driving towards our True North vision of providing the right data, in the right place, at the right time so that we can enable and accelerate the journey to being a data-driven organization. There is strong executive support for all things data and it is viewed as a critical component for our enterprise transformation activities. What we need now is someone with a passion for solving problems and driving actionable outcomes with data.
In this role you will be responsible for bringing data and analytics products and capabilities to bear at WEX. You will work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to understand their data needs and capability gaps then translate those needs into technical user stories for the engineering teams.
What you’ll do:
Deliver best in class experiences and enabling capabilities that delight customers and win in the market
Deeply understand the customer needs to define the priorities and inspire the broader team
Build the product roadmap, define user users and drive tradeoff decisions
Identify new products and features on the customer’s behalf
Lead 1-2 scrum teams to align on mission and deliver great results iteratively
Leverages qualitative and quantitative data to measure results, inform roadmap and achieve benefit, adoption and financial results
Cross collaborates with Sr PMs / Analytics / Engineering / Business Leaders to drive scalable data solutions
Engage in technical discussions with senior engineers to define product strategy, create value, and impact the direction of products and the business
Be a trusted partner that can present effectively to high-level stakeholders, set clear priorities and direction, and begin to build bridges across groups
Own the product end-to end by developing business models, defining and analyzing success metrics, and managing strategic projects
How you’ll engage:
Strategic Mindset: Seek to understand WEX’s corporate strategy, the competitive environment and market trends and how our products can create value
Customer Obsessed: Deeply understand our customers’ needs through customer empathy, data and prioritize work
Results Focused: Leverage data to understand how the product is performing and prioritize work
Insights Driven: Use qualitative and quantitative insights to drive decisions, define experiments and prioritize roadmap
Trusted Partner: Appreciate and comprehend different points of view and share information clearly and transparently with strong collaboration while knowing when to escalate
Relevant Expertise: Brings a deep understanding of the market, applied technologies and domain expertise, with a curiosity and learning mindset
What you’ll bring:
8+ years of experience as a Product Manager in a modern, data driven environment or 8+ years of combined Data Engineering, Analytics, Product Management experience
Undergraduate degree in computer science or related fields, advanced degree is a plus
Understand how features (micro) interface with overall product vision (macro)
Has a learning mindset to start developing hypothesis that are tested and iterated
Experience in building self-service products from scratch. Specific experience building products for internal analytical, and ML use cases
Strong ability to think through unifying elements and common denominators; build solutions that work across multiple lines of business
Hand on experience with big data frameworks and modern data technologies (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow, Tableau, SQL)
Data driven approach for everything you do, understanding your customers, roadmap prioritization and measuring success.
Ability to work in an agile fashion with your teams; go broad to go narrow; build, test, iterate
Ability to nurture various projects in parallel, in different stages of maturity and velocity