About the Role
This role offers a unique opportunity to help shape the future of enterprise data products supporting investment, stewardship, risk, compliance, and reporting outcomes across the firm. We are seeking a Technical Product Manager who is passionate about solving complex data challenges and building products that create value across multiple business domains. You will play a critical role in translating strategic priorities into actionable product outcomes while helping drive adoption of modern data management practices, semantic data capabilities, and enterprise data standards across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner with product leadership to execute the ESG Data Product roadmap in alignment with business priorities and enterprise data strategy.
- Own and prioritize the product backlog, balancing stakeholder needs, technical dependencies, regulatory requirements, and delivery capacity.
- Develop clear user stories, acceptance criteria, and product requirements that enable efficient engineering execution.
- Collaborate closely with delivery lead, technology lead and engineers throughout planning, development, testing, and release activities.
- Support the continued evolution of Vanguard's ESG Data Product, including semantic modelling, data relationships, data management, and cross-domain data integration.
- Partner with data architecture and engineering teams to ensure solutions are scalable, reusable, governed, and aligned with enterprise standards.
- Provide business and technical context that enables engineering teams to successfully deliver complex data capabilities while maintaining the integrity of relationships across issuers, securities, holdings, entities, funds and benchmarks across other investment data domains.
- Serve as a key technical point of contact for external ESG data providers and strategic data partners.
- Support the onboarding and integration of new data sources into the ESG data ecosystem.
- Partner with operations and engineering teams to monitor data quality, investigate anomalies, and drive continuous improvements in data ingestion and processing capabilities.
- Collaborate with operations teams, data consumers, and business stakeholders to understand requirements and prioritize outcomes.
- Translate complex business needs into structured product requirements, delivery plans, and roadmap priorities.
- Facilitate alignment across technical and non-technical stakeholders while managing competing priorities and expectations.
- Represent the ESG Data Product in product showcases, governance forums, and broader Product Management and Data communities across Vanguard.
- Contribute to the advancement of enterprise data capabilities by promoting reusable data assets, common standards, and scalable data management practices.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities that may impact product delivery, adoption, or long-term sustainability.
- Stay informed on developments in ESG reporting, industry standards, investment data, and data management technologies.
- Continuously develop technical, product management, and domain expertise, while contributing thought leadership in the areas of enterprise data products and cross-domain data relationships.
Requirements
- 2–4 years of experience as a Product Manager, Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role within financial services.
- Experience working with complex datasets, data products, or analytical platforms.
- Ability to translate ambiguous business problems into structured product requirements and delivery plans.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively across cross-functional teams and navigate ambiguity.
- Working knowledge of relational databases, data pipelines, and data modelling concepts.
- Familiarity with SQL and Python.
- Exposure to semantic modelling, metadata management, data governance, or knowledge graph technologies.
- Experience working within Agile product delivery environments.
- A strong intellectual curiosity and passion for solving complex data challenges through structured and scalable solutions.
Skills
- Product Management
- Data Strategy
- Technology Delivery
- Roadmap Execution
- Backlog Management
- User Story Development
- Acceptance Criteria
- Product Requirements
- Data Product Development
- Semantic Modelling
- Data Relationships
- Data Management
- Cross-domain Data Integration
- Data Architecture
- Enterprise Standards
- Vendor Integration
- Data Operations
- Data Quality Monitoring
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Engagement
- Enterprise Data Strategy
- Continuous Improvement
- SQL
- Python
- Agile Product Delivery
Location
- Hybrid
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 2-4 years
About the Company
- Vanguard, one of the world's leading investment management companies, serves individual investors, institutions, employer-sponsored retirement plans, and financial professionals.
- We have a diverse and talented crew with a culture that promotes teamwork, along with an unwavering focus on serving our clients' best interests.
