Senior Product Lead, Enterprise Data Catalog

Role Overview

• Support execution of the enterprise data catalog roadmap, aligned to enterprise data, governance, and AI priorities
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable work plans, product requirements, feature releases, and implementation activities
• Support day-to-day product management activities, including backlog refinement, release planning, dependency management, and delivery tracking
• Partner with product and business leadership to assess priorities, evaluate opportunities, and recommend capability enhancements that drive adoption and business value
• Drive implementation of data catalog capabilities and feature releases, ensuring work is well-defined, appropriately sequenced, and aligned with business objectives
• Serve as the enterprise subject matter expert for Alation capabilities, including metadata management, stewardship workflows, business glossary, lineage, search and discovery
• Partner with business and technology stakeholders to gather requirements, facilitate working sessions, document needs, and translate requirements into actionable product backlog items
• Support roadmap planning, feature prioritization, backlog refinement, release planning, and value realization activities
• Coordinate and monitor delivery activities across internal teams, technology partners, and vendors to support successful execution of roadmap commitments
• Assist in optimizing Alation capabilities to improve adoption, usability, metadata quality, and operational efficiency
• Contribute to solution design efforts for catalog enhancements, integrations, automation opportunities, and process improvements
• Develop user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, implementation plans, and supporting documentation required to deliver catalog enhancements
• Monitor product performance metrics related to adoption, onboarding, metadata health, feature usage, delivery progress, and user engagement
• Prepare and maintain product reporting, implementation updates, roadmap updates, status reporting, and stakeholder communications
• Coordinate testing, business readiness, communications, training, documentation, and post-release activities supporting feature deployments
• Partner with governance, risk, privacy, and data management stakeholders to ensure catalog capabilities support enterprise control requirements and strengthen trust in critical data assets
• Identify metadata, process, and platform gaps and develop recommendations that improve user experience, operational efficiency, and platform value
• Develop and maintain catalog-related standards, procedures, job aids, playbooks, and supporting documentation
• Support onboarding efforts by guiding users, data owners, stewards, and business partners on catalog capabilities, standards, and best practices
• Facilitate stakeholder forums, requirement discussions, and capability planning sessions to support alignment across business and technology teams
• Provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise on how metadata, business context, and governance capabilities support analytics, automation, and AI use cases
• Build strong working relationships across the enterprise and influence outcomes through expertise, collaboration, organization, and execution excellence
• Maintain awareness of data catalog industry trends, emerging capabilities, and leading practices to support continuous product evolution
• Perform other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent relevant work experience
• 10+ years of experience implementing data governance frameworks (e.g., data policies, standards, and controls)
• Experience developing and/or implementing data governance policy and standards
• Experience working with IT and/or business segments on the analysis of complex business processes and data governance needs
• 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 (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 (Preferred)
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, business glossary, data lineage, stewardship, and data governance concepts (Preferred)

Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development opportunities