Data Product Owner
About the job
- Experience in business analysis, data analytics, data management, product ownership, or related disciplines.
- Experience gathering and translating business requirements into analytics, reporting, data product, or technology solutions.
- Experience managing priorities, roadmaps, backlogs, or cross-functional delivery efforts.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver outcomes.
- Experience analyzing business problems, facilitating stakeholder discussions, evaluating solution options, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
- Experience communicating business requirements, insights, recommendations, and project updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through written, verbal, and presentation-based formats.
- Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges, opportunities, and desired business outcomes.
- Translate business goals, opportunities, and pain points into clear requirements, user stories, decision needs, and actionable data product initiatives.
- Proactively manage and prioritize data product work by balancing business impact, urgency, technical feasibility, data readiness, and team capacity, and communicate trade-offs.
- Work closely with solutions delivery leads, data engineers, developers, architects, analysts, product owners, and IT partners throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure proposed solutions are practical, scalable, trusted, and aligned to real business decisions and workflows.
- Own, maintain, and communicate data product roadmaps that align to ET&S priorities, stakeholder needs, and business value.
- Support solution design, validation, testing, deployment, change management, and continuous improvement activities.
- Help advance ET&S data maturity by reinforcing accountability, transparency, and shared understanding of data products, and supporting standards and best practices.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, connecting people, processes, data, and technology to create lasting value.
- A bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience owning or managing a data product roadmap.
- Experience working within data governance, master data management (MDM), data quality, or enterprise data programs.
- Advanced experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics and visualization platforms.
- Experience with SQL, Python, Snowflake, or other modern analytics technologies.
- Familiarity with Agile product delivery, backlog management, prioritization frameworks, and value tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders, facilitate decisions, and drive cross-functional change.
- Proven ability to connect analytical work and data products to measurable business value and economic outcomes.
- Experience using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyze data, identify insights, streamline workflows, or improve business outcomes.
About the company
Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.
Company Size
5,001-10,000
Company Stage
Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total Funding
$985.2M
Headquarters
Wichita, Kansas
Founded
1940
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Koch raised $224.4 million in equity financing on March 10, 2026, preserving dry powder.
- Koch's Africa fertilizer foothold expands global phosphate reach from Morocco's Jorf complex.
- Closed Tacoma gypsum plant concentrates capital into stronger Georgia-Pacific assets and higher-margin lines.
What critics are saying
- DOJ opened a fertilizer antitrust probe in March 2026, risking criminal charges and damages.
- Farmers filed class actions in March and June 2026 against Koch Agronomic Services.
- Georgia-Pacific will close Tacoma's gypsum plant on October 30, 2026, cutting 125 jobs.
What makes Koch Industries unique
- Private since 1940, Koch reinvests earnings for decades, not quarterly Wall Street optics.
- Koch Fertilizer expanded into Morocco on June 30, 2026 through Jorf Fertilizers ownership.
- Georgia-Pacific and Koch Agronomic Services give Koch integrated positions across packaging and fertilizers.
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