Analytics Product Owner

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The Analytics Product Owner owns the vision, prioritization, and delivery of analytics products that enable data-driven decision-making across the business. This role operates at the intersection of business, data, and technology-translating complex business needs into clear, actionable analytics work.

You will own the analytics backlog end-to-end, facilitate agile execution, and ensure the analytics team is delivering high-quality, trustworthy insights aligned with both strategic priorities and near-term business needs.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys creating clarity, making trade-offs, and helping analytics teams focus on outcomes-not just output.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Prioritization

• Own and maintain the analytics product backlog, translating business objectives into well-defined user stories with clear acceptance criteria
• Prioritize work based on business value, effort, and risk-balancing strategic initiatives with urgent business needs
• Ensure all analytics work aligns with agreed-upon outcomes and stakeholder expectations

Agile Delivery & Execution

• Lead agile ceremonies including daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
• Actively manage work in JIRA: ticket creation, prioritization, dependency tracking, and status updates
• Monitor delivery timelines, manage trade-offs, and proactively communicate risks and progress to stakeholders and leadership

Stakeholder Engagement

• Partner closely with stakeholders across product, engineering, marketing, finance, and operations to gather requirements and set realistic expectations
• Act as the primary point of contact for analytics requests, ensuring clarity before work enters the backlog
• Translate technical progress into clear, business-friendly updates

Quality & Enablement

• Ensure analytics deliverables are accurate, documented, and usable by decision-makers
• Remove blockers for the analytics team and facilitate smooth cross-functional communication
• Drive continuous improvement in analytics workflows, documentation, and agile practices

Hands-On Contribution

• Perform occasional light technical tasks such as simple dashboard updates using existing data models

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Analytics Product Manager, or Project Manager in an analytics, data, or SaaS environment
• Strong experience running agile ceremonies and managing delivery for analytics or data teams
• Hands-on experience managing complex backlogs and cross-team dependencies in JIRA
• Ability to write clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria for analytics and data work
• Solid understanding of analytics concepts such as dashboards, reporting, metrics, and data pipelines
• Experience making prioritization decisions with incomplete or evolving information
• Excellent communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Basic experience modifying dashboards in Power BI or a comparable BI tool using pre-built data models
• English proficiency: TOEFL (or equivalent) ≥ 90

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working closely with data analysts, data engineers, and data scientists
• SaaS or technology business analytics experience
• Familiarity with Databricks
• Familiarity with secure software development practices
• Experience using Git (any platform)
• Experience in scaled agile or multi-team environments
• Background in product management or data-driven organizations
• Prior experience working with a US-based technology company or startup
• English proficiency: TOEFL (or equivalent) ≥ 90

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