Principal Product Manager

Role Overview

We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead our new Data Platform squad. This strategic individual contributor role focuses on building and evolving a modern, scalable data platform that enables data‑informed decisions, product innovation, and operational intelligence across our business and customer ecosystem. You will report to the Head of Product and collaborate closely with engineers, data scientists, architects, and business stakeholders to ensure the platform meets both internal and external needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the data platform, focusing on high‑impact and scalable outcomes.
• Drive the creation of a modern data lakehouse architecture and establish a data mesh model for decentralized data ownership.
• Deliver real‑time streaming capabilities that support near‑instant analytics and next‑generation IoT use cases.
• Partner with data consumers across the business to prioritize data needs and ensure data accessibility, quality, and usability.
• Own and evolve key platform capabilities such as secure data storage, data governance, BI tooling, and ML‑ready data pipelines.

Key Experience & Skills

• Proven experience as a Senior/Lead Product Manager or Principal Product Manager working on data platforms, analytics infrastructure, or developer‑facing data tooling.
• Deep understanding of data lakehouse architecture, data mesh models, and real‑time streaming technologies.
• Technical fluency in Databricks, Delta Lake, Apache Spark, and Kafka.
• Strong product discovery and outcome‑thinking skills, balancing long‑term investments with short‑term delivery.
• Experience working in an empowered product team and collaborating with data scientists, data engineers, and analytics teams to create business value.

Behaviours & Culture

• A resourceful and pragmatic approach with a bias toward delivery and accountability.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, aligning diverse needs around a common strategy.
• The ability to stay calm and collected under pressure.
• A collaborative or leadership style that brings out the best in others.
• Ability to coach and support product peers in modern data platform and analytics product practices.
• Positive, can‑do attitude that inspires others.
• Brand ambassador for the business.
• Continuously seeks self‑development opportunities.

Your Objectives for the Year

• Launch a Modern Data Platform: define and deliver a new data platform vision, including a data lakehouse architecture and real‑time streaming capabilities.
• Enable Data as a Product: embed data mesh principles to empower domain teams with decentralized data ownership, accelerating data access across the business.
• Drive Business Value: partner with data consumers to prioritize their needs and ensure the platform’s capabilities directly contribute to measurable business outcomes such as improved efficiency or new product features.

Benefits Of Being Part Of The Team

• 25 days holiday
• Buy up to 5 days additional holiday
• Birthday day off
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Group company pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Discounted gym membership at over 3000 gyms
• Dental cover
• Optical cover
• Company sick pay scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access to a variety of online discounts on major retailers
• Employee assistance programme

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