Technical Product Manager - Data Strategy

Technical Product Manager, Data Strategy

About the role
At Vanguard, we’re committed to helping our clients achieve long-term financial success through clarity, discipline, and a focus on what matters most. As a Technical Product Manager in Data Strategy, you’ll play a key role in making high-quality, trusted data accessible across the organization. Your work will enable better decisions, improve client outcomes, and support scalable, enterprise-wide data solutions. You’ll collaborate with teammates across engineering, analytics, and business functions to build data products that are reliable, well-governed, and designed for real-world impact.

What you’ll do

• Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for master and reference data products, with accountability across the full data lifecycle—ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, storage, and consumption.
• Partner with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, governance, and business teams to define and apply best practices for master data management (MDM), reference data management (RDM), data modeling, and data quality.
• Use SQL and data profiling techniques to explore data, validate requirements, assess quality, and identify trends or issues that inform priorities and decisions.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable data product requirements, including schemas, hierarchies, transformations, service-level agreements (SLAs), and consumption patterns.
• Guide delivery teams on effective data product practices, including backlog structure, dependency management, and outcome-based planning.
• Collaborate with engineering and stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve production issues such as data quality defects, pipeline failures, or downstream reporting impacts, using root-cause analysis to drive sustainable solutions.
• Support the launch and adoption of data products by improving usability, consistency, and trust across operational systems, analytics, and reporting.
• Continuously improve data quality—accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness—while balancing governance needs with speed and usability.
• Contribute to prioritization and roadmap discussions by highlighting data risks, architectural dependencies, and platform considerations.
• Participate in agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) for data pipelines.
• Contribute to broader data initiatives such as metadata management, data discoverability, governance workflows, and domain-based ownership models.

What we’re looking for

• Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• At least five years of relevant experience in technical product management, data, or a related field.
• Experience working with data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics engineering concepts, including data modeling and BI tools.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience using data to inform decisions, including hands-on work with SQL or similar tools.
• Advanced degree in information technology or related field is a plus.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or projects is preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.