ezCater is hiring a Principal Data Product Manager, Enterprise Governance to own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for our enterprise data governance and master data management (MDM) capabilities. You will be the critical link between business stakeholders, data platform teams, and compliance functions, ensuring data is reliable, well-managed, and accessible to power analytics, operations, and AI across the company.
What You'll Do
- Define the long-term product vision and roadmap for data governance and MDM, aligning with enterprise data strategy and key business outcomes.
- Translate business, regulatory, and technical requirements into clear product specifications for governance services like metadata management, data lineage, data catalogs, quality monitoring, and access policies.
- Partner with data engineering teams to design and implement scalable governance frameworks and MDM solutions that enable self-service analytics and compliance.
- Lead the development of master data models and entity domains (e.g., customer, account, product, location) in close collaboration with business and technical stakeholders.
- Establish and track success metrics for data quality, stewardship effectiveness, metadata completeness, and adoption of governed data domains.
- Champion data ownership models, stewardship frameworks, and governance policies consistent with industry principles like DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM, or data mesh.
- Collaborate with Security, Legal, and Compliance teams to ensure adherence to privacy regulations, data retention policies, and access control standards.
- Influence enterprise data strategy by promoting a culture of data accountability and enabling governed, reusable data products across all business units.
- Communicate complex governance concepts to executive audiences using clear, value-oriented storytelling and ROI-driven narratives.
- Drive adoption of governance and MDM platforms through user training, documentation, and change management initiatives.
What We're Looking For
- 8-10+ years of product management experience.
- At least 3 years focused specifically on data governance, data platforms, or master data management.
- Demonstrated success delivering cross-functional data initiatives that improved business outcomes, data quality, and regulatory compliance.
- Familiarity with modern data stack architectures, including cloud data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), transformation tools (dbt), and orchestration frameworks.
- Strong stakeholder management and executive communication skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority and align diverse teams around a unified vision.
- Experience defining and tracking product KPIs and using data to inform prioritization and roadmap decisions.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field.
- A passion for building scalable, user-friendly data products that empower decision-making and foster trust in data across the organization.
Nice to Have
- MBA or advanced degree.
- B2B experience.
- Deep understanding of data governance frameworks (e.g., DAMA-DMBOK, DCAM) and MDM best practices, including golden record management and data stewardship models.
- Hands-on experience with MDM technologies (e.g., Reltio, Informatica MDM, Semarchy, Profisee) and data governance platforms (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Ataccama).
Technical Stack
- Cloud Data Platforms: Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery
- Transformation: dbt
- MDM Technologies: Reltio, Informatica MDM, Semarchy, Profisee
- Data Governance Platforms: Collibra, Alation, Atlan, Ataccama
Benefits & Compensation
- Salary: $203,000 - $242,000
- Market competitive salary.
- Stock options.
- 12 paid holidays.
- Flexible PTO.
- 401K with ezCater match.
- Health/dental/FSA.
- Long-term disability insurance.
- Mental health and family planning resources.
- Tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy.
- Wicked awesome co-workers.
- Relish (and many more goodies) when you’re in our office.
Work Mode
This is a hybrid-remote role. You can work from our Boston, MA office or from your home.
ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status.
