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Cypress HCM

Data Product Manager

Contract · In Office · San Jose, California (USA)

Posted Jun 15, 2026

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Job Details

  • Data Product Manager (Contract)
  • Location: San Jose, CA 95110 (Hybrid)
  • Duration: 3/23/2026 to 12/25/2026
  • Team: GTM Data Science & Analytics

Key Responsibilities

  • Define and own the long-term vision and roadmap for analytics datasets, governed metrics, and dashboards
  • Translate business questions into durable data products (canonical datasets, semantic layers, standardized dashboards)
  • Establish and manage a prioritized intake process for analytics requests, balancing quick wins with foundational investments
  • Write clear requirements for datasets and dashboards, including metric definitions, grain, dimensions, filters, and refresh expectations
  • Partner with Data Engineering to shape data models, pipelines, and data contracts that enable scalable analytics
  • Partner with Data Science and Analytics to ensure datasets are analysis-ready and reusable across use cases
  • Create and maintain KPI frameworks and “single source of truth” metric definitions to reduce metric disputes
  • Own dashboard strategy: what to build, what to retire, and how to improve usability and adoption
  • Implement and run the operating cadence for execution, including Jira epics/stories, sprint planning, prioritization, and release communication
  • Maintain a team wiki (e.g., Confluence) with documentation for datasets, dashboards, metric definitions, and usage guidelines
  • Drive quarterly planning, resourcing conversations, milestone tracking, and stakeholder reviews of roadmap progress
  • Define and track success metrics for data products, including adoption, data quality, freshness, reliability, and stakeholder satisfaction
  • Establish monitoring and processes for data quality issues, incident triage, and continuous improvement
  • Enable self-serve analytics by improving discoverability, documentation, training, and stakeholder enablement
  • Act as the primary cross-functional point of accountability for analytics data products from concept through launch and iteration.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Strong product management skills applied to data and analytics products, including roadmap ownership and prioritization
  • Ability to think long-term about foundational data assets, not just short-term reporting outputs
  • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align teams on shared metric definitions and outcomes
  • Proven ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear requirements for datasets and dashboards
  • Working proficiency in SQL and strong fluency in data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and event-based data
  • Experience with BI/dashboarding ecosystems (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI) and building scalable dashboard suites
  • Familiarity with semantic layers or metric layers and the concept of governed, reusable metric definitions
  • Strong execution and program management skills, including sprint rituals, backlog hygiene, and delivery predictability
  • Hands-on experience running Jira workflows and building operating mechanisms for intake, planning, and release management
  • Ability to create clear documentation and knowledge management systems in a wiki environment (e.g., Confluence)
  • Strong intuition for data quality, data reliability, and trust-building through SLAs, validation, and monitoring practices
  • Comfort partnering with engineering teams on technical tradeoffs, scope decisions, and delivery planning
  • Ability to drive adoption through enablement, training, office hours, and stakeholder feedback loops.

Education & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or technical field such as Computer Science, Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or a related discipline
  • Master’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., Analytics, Data Science, MBA, or similar) is a plus
  • Equivalent practical experience in data product management, analytics engineering, or analytics program leadership considered in lieu of formal education.

Compensation

$60.00 to $68.31 per hour.

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