Manager, Senior Product
ABS Group, Houston, TX, United States
The Senior Manager, Product is responsible for defining the vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution of enterprise data products that enable business value and decision‑making. This role ensures data products are designed, built, and consumed in alignment with business objectives while delivering a high‑quality, intuitive experience for diverse user personas across the organization.
The Senior Manager, Data Product partners closely with business leaders, data stewards, analytics teams, and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, reusable, and well‑governed data products. This is a product leadership role focused on outcomes, customer experience, and value realization—not a data ownership or stewardship function.
What you will do
Define and own the data product vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap aligned with enterprise and domain‑level business priorities.
Translate business problems and opportunities into clearly defined data product value propositions.
Establish success metrics and measurable outcomes for data products, including adoption, value delivery, and customer satisfaction.
Product Delivery & Lifecycle Management
Oversee end‑to‑end execution of data products from ideation through launch, iteration, and retirement.
Define how data products are built, documented, governed, and consumed across the enterprise.
Prioritize product backlogs, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term scalability and platform evolution.
Ensure data products are designed for usability, trust, performance, and reuse.
Customer‑Centered Design
Develop a deep understanding of nontechnical and technical user personas, including their workflows, pain points, and decision needs.
Apply strong customer empathy and user‑centered thinking to data product design and prioritization.
Maintain awareness of the total customer experience, ensuring data products integrate seamlessly into broader business processes and tools.
Stakeholder Partnership & Collaboration
Partner closely with business leaders to ensure data products directly support strategic objectives and operational needs.
Collaborate with data stewards, analytics engineers, data scientists, and platform teams for optimal product delivery.
Clearly articulate product decisions, trade‑offs, and value to executive and cross‑functional audiences.
Governance & Enablement
Align data product delivery with enterprise data governance, privacy, security, and quality standards.
Ensure clear accountability models are in place across product, stewardship, and technology roles.
Drive data product education, enablement, and adoption across the organization.
Role Clarity
Is accountable for product outcomes, user experience, and business value.
Works in partnership with data stewards, business leads, and D&A technology teams to ensure trusted, well‑managed, and effectively consumed data products.
What You Will Need Education and Experience
15+ years of experience in product management, data product management, analytics, or related discipline.
Proven experience leading the strategy and delivery of complex data or analytics products at scale.
Strong understanding of data ecosystems, including analytics, BI, data platforms, AI/ML products, and data governance concepts.
Demonstrated ability to work with nontechnical stakeholders and translate business needs into product requirements.
Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Strategic product thinking
Customer engagement and user‑centered design
Cross‑functional leadership
Clear decision‑making and prioritization
Obtain a working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality & Environmental (HSQE) Management System.
It would be nice if you had
Experience operating in a modern data environment (e.g., cloud platforms‑ Azure, AWS etc., analytics engineering, self‑service analytics).
Familiarity with Agile product delivery methodologies. Scrum certification preferred.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect data product decisions to measurable business outcomes.
Reporting Relationships This position reports to the Vice President, Data and Analytics.
About Our Benefits ABS Bureau proudly offers a variety of industry‑leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well‑being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to, medical insurance (PPO and HD), dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Savings Account (FSA), life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability leave programs, parental leave program, paid holidays, and paid vacation time. The Company provides an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) that offers support in personal wellness, including work‑life services. ABS Bureau also offers a 401K plan with a generous company match, subject to plan requirements.
Equal Opportunity ABS Bureau is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non‑work‑related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.
Job Info
Job Identification 4219
Job Category Information Technology
Posting Date 04/13/2026, 11:43 AM
Job Schedule Full time
Locations 1701 City Plaza Drive, Spring, TX, 77389, US (Hybrid)
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The Senior Manager, Data Product partners closely with business leaders, data stewards, analytics teams, and technology stakeholders to deliver scalable, reusable, and well‑governed data products. This is a product leadership role focused on outcomes, customer experience, and value realization—not a data ownership or stewardship function.
What you will do
Define and own the data product vision, strategy, and multi‑year roadmap aligned with enterprise and domain‑level business priorities.
Translate business problems and opportunities into clearly defined data product value propositions.
Establish success metrics and measurable outcomes for data products, including adoption, value delivery, and customer satisfaction.
Product Delivery & Lifecycle Management
Oversee end‑to‑end execution of data products from ideation through launch, iteration, and retirement.
Define how data products are built, documented, governed, and consumed across the enterprise.
Prioritize product backlogs, balancing short‑term delivery with long‑term scalability and platform evolution.
Ensure data products are designed for usability, trust, performance, and reuse.
Customer‑Centered Design
Develop a deep understanding of nontechnical and technical user personas, including their workflows, pain points, and decision needs.
Apply strong customer empathy and user‑centered thinking to data product design and prioritization.
Maintain awareness of the total customer experience, ensuring data products integrate seamlessly into broader business processes and tools.
Stakeholder Partnership & Collaboration
Partner closely with business leaders to ensure data products directly support strategic objectives and operational needs.
Collaborate with data stewards, analytics engineers, data scientists, and platform teams for optimal product delivery.
Clearly articulate product decisions, trade‑offs, and value to executive and cross‑functional audiences.
Governance & Enablement
Align data product delivery with enterprise data governance, privacy, security, and quality standards.
Ensure clear accountability models are in place across product, stewardship, and technology roles.
Drive data product education, enablement, and adoption across the organization.
Role Clarity
Is accountable for product outcomes, user experience, and business value.
Works in partnership with data stewards, business leads, and D&A technology teams to ensure trusted, well‑managed, and effectively consumed data products.
What You Will Need Education and Experience
15+ years of experience in product management, data product management, analytics, or related discipline.
Proven experience leading the strategy and delivery of complex data or analytics products at scale.
Strong understanding of data ecosystems, including analytics, BI, data platforms, AI/ML products, and data governance concepts.
Demonstrated ability to work with nontechnical stakeholders and translate business needs into product requirements.
Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Strategic product thinking
Customer engagement and user‑centered design
Cross‑functional leadership
Clear decision‑making and prioritization
Obtain a working knowledge of the ABS Health, Safety, Quality & Environmental (HSQE) Management System.
It would be nice if you had
Experience operating in a modern data environment (e.g., cloud platforms‑ Azure, AWS etc., analytics engineering, self‑service analytics).
Familiarity with Agile product delivery methodologies. Scrum certification preferred.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect data product decisions to measurable business outcomes.
Reporting Relationships This position reports to the Vice President, Data and Analytics.
About Our Benefits ABS Bureau proudly offers a variety of industry‑leading benefits designed to enhance the life and well‑being of our employees and their families. These benefits include, but are not limited to, medical insurance (PPO and HD), dental and vision insurance, Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Savings Account (FSA), life insurance, accidental death and dismemberment insurance, disability leave programs, parental leave program, paid holidays, and paid vacation time. The Company provides an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP) that offers support in personal wellness, including work‑life services. ABS Bureau also offers a 401K plan with a generous company match, subject to plan requirements.
Equal Opportunity ABS Bureau is committed to the equal employment opportunity of its employees and prohibits discrimination against any employee or qualified applicant based on race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship status or veteran status, or other non‑work‑related characteristics that may be protected under the law of the Federal Government or specific state employment laws.
Job Info
Job Identification 4219
Job Category Information Technology
Posting Date 04/13/2026, 11:43 AM
Job Schedule Full time
Locations 1701 City Plaza Drive, Spring, TX, 77389, US (Hybrid)
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