Senior Manager, Enterprise Data Catalog

Role Overview

• Set the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the enterprise data catalog product, anchored in Alation and aligned to enterprise data, governance, and AI priorities
• Position the data catalog as the enterprise knowledge layer by connecting technical metadata, business context, governance processes, ownership, policy, and usage to support trusted decision-making and AI enablement
• Lead the product management function for the data catalog, including roadmap development, feature prioritization, release planning, backlog management, and value realization
• Own delivery of data catalog capabilities and feature releases, ensuring work is solution-oriented, well-sequenced, and tied to adoption, operational readiness, and business outcomes
• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of data catalog product capability leads and analysts, with clear ownership, work planning discipline, and accountability for results
• Design and mature the team operating model, including role clarity, capacity planning, prioritization routines, agile ceremonies, intake management, and dependency management
• Partner with stakeholders across business and technology to identify needs, define solutions, and translate enterprise requirements into scalable catalog capabilities and roadmap priorities
• Drive optimization and expansion of Alation capabilities, including but not limited to data discovery, business glossary, stewardship workflows, lineage, policy integration, search experience, curation, and operating model enablement
• Serve as a hands-on leader with deep knowledge of Alation administration, implementation patterns, configuration decisions, and enterprise deployment considerations
• Lead cross-functional solution design for catalog enhancements and integrations, ensuring capabilities are practical, scalable, and support enterprise ways of working
• Establish and monitor product goals, success metrics, and operational performance indicators related to adoption, feature usage, onboarding throughput, metadata health, and delivery execution
• Ensure disciplined release management by coordinating business readiness, communications, training, documentation, and post-release measurement
• Partner with governance, risk, privacy, and data management stakeholders to ensure the catalog supports enterprise control requirements and strengthens trust in critical data assets
• Guide teams in identifying metadata, process, and platform gaps and developing actionable solutions that improve user experience and increase platform value
• Lead the continuous improvement of catalog-related processes, job aids, standards, and documentation to support scale, repeatability, and strong execution
• Provide thought leadership on how metadata, business context, and governance capabilities support next-generation analytics and AI use cases
• Build strong partnerships across the enterprise and influence senior stakeholders on priorities, tradeoffs, sequencing, and investment needs
• Manage, coach, and develop direct reports, including other people leaders where applicable
• Lead through change and model strong leadership, execution discipline, collaboration, and customer focus
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business Intelligence, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience
• 10+ years of experience working with data, metadata and reference data frameworks, and experience in metadata and/or data quality monitoring
• 7+ years of experience leading work efforts and managing toward deadlines, and developing high-performing teams
• 5+ years of related experience in strategy, management consulting, or similar skillset
• 3+ years of hands-on experience with the Alation Data Catalog platform (preferred)
• 3+ years of experience working in a Scaled Agile environment (preferred)
• Strong product management mindset with experience defining product vision, leading release cycles, managing backlogs, and driving measurable adoption (preferred)
• Strong solution-oriented thinking with the ability to translate business needs into practical, scalable platform capabilities (preferred)
• Experience building work plans, managing delivery against deadlines, and driving accountable execution across multiple priorities (preferred)
• Experience partnering with architecture, engineering, analytics, risk, control, privacy, and business stakeholders (preferred)
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution and operational rigor (preferred)
• Strong communication, executive presence, and stakeholder management skills (preferred)
• Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, influence priorities, and deliver outcomes in a matrixed environment (preferred)
• Experience supporting AI readiness, data discovery, and trusted data enablement through strong metadata and governance foundations (preferred).

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangement
• Health insurance
• Retirement plans