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You will bring product ownership experience and subject matter knowledge to assist Cengage in improving the acquisition, integration, transformation, management, monitoring, and accessibility of data for business and technology objectives.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDevelop Data Management & Operations Strategy and Priorities\nCollaborate with Data Management & Operations leadership to develop functional strategy, priorities, roadmaps, and investment plans.\nTurn strategy into a consistent portfolio of initiatives, capabilities, operational developments, and technology investments.\nEvaluate emerging business and technology needs, find opportunities and gaps, and develop recommendations.\nHelp establish and maintain multi-year roadmaps.\nProvide leadership with access to portfolio health, competing priorities, capacity constraints, dependencies, risks, and decisions requiring attention.\nServe as a Strategic Business and Technology Collaborator\nAct as a reliable liaison with business and technology leaders.\nDevelop a solid understanding of Cengage business strategies, processes, technology landscape, and data needs.\nEngage team members to frame business problems and desired outcomes.\nTranslate sophisticated data concepts for technical and non-technical audiences.\nRepresent leadership independently in forums and decision-making discussions.\nBuild relationships across business functions and technology organizations.\nStrengthen Capabilities in Business Data Governance and Control\nPartner with collaborators to shape and enable scalable data capabilities.\nChampion the adoption and steady refinement of data management methods.\nDrive adoption of data quality practices.\nDrive alignment with data governance policies, standards, and practices.\nCollaborate with technical teams to define clear business outcomes and requirements.\nIdentify systemic gaps and opportunities across data processes.\nEncourage enterprise reuse and standardization.\nAssist in establishing criteria for success regarding data capabilities and initiatives.\nDrive Portfolio, Program, and Delivery Execution\nDrive execution of the portfolio, ensuring priorities translate into coordinated initiatives.\nCollaborate with program/project managers and technical teams to coordinate implementation.\nMaintain portfolio-level access to delivery progress.\nEnsure work entering delivery is sufficiently understood, prioritized, and aligned with outcomes.\nMake timely prioritization and tradeoff decisions.\nProvide product ownership and prioritization oversight for relevant backlogs.\nWork jointly with other TPOs and technology leaders on cross-platform initiatives.\nSupport productive delivery approaches, clarity, answerability, and constant development.\nManage Data Operations and Continuous Advancement\nCollaborate with leadership and technical teams to set and track expectations for data capabilities.\nUse operational performance indicators to identify systemic improvement opportunities.\nDrive prioritization of initiatives that reduce operational burden, increase automation, and improve maintainability.\nMaintain a suitable balance among new capabilities, operational improvements, risk remediation, technical debt, and platform health.\nProvide leadership and coordination for significant cross-functional operational issues.\nConsistently advance Data Management & Operations workflows and indicators of success.\nWhat You’ll Need\nExtensive background in technical product ownership, technology business collaboration, portfolio/program oversight, data management, data operations, business analysis, or a related technology role.\nDemonstrable experience working alongside data engineering teams and translating business and technical requirements into well-defined engineering assignments.\nSolid understanding of data engineering concepts, including data pipelines, ETL/ELT, data integration, data modeling, data storage, APIs, data warehouses/lakes/lakehouses, cloud data platforms, and batch and/or real-time data processing.\nKnowledge of data management areas including data quality, metadata, lineage, governance, security, access, and lifecycle management.\nExperience with operational elements of data platforms, including monitoring, reliability, incident management, performance, scalability, and service-level expectations.\nProven capability to collaborate with senior leaders on strategy and convert strategic direction into actionable priorities.\nExperience representing a technology or data function with senior business and technology collaborators.\nDemonstrated experience managing sophisticated portfolios or roadmaps involving multiple initiatives, collaborators, dependencies, competing priorities, and constrained capacity.\nSolid foundational knowledge of enterprise data management and data governance.\nExperience with enterprise data platforms and applications; familiarity with Snowflake, SAP, Salesforce, or comparable technologies is preferred.\nPractical understanding of operational and analytical data modeling concepts.\nStrong analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving skills.\nProven capability to grasp technical architecture and engineering compromises.\nExperience working across Agile and other technology delivery practices.\nFamiliarity with SQL and/or Python is a plus.\nFamiliarity with established data management frameworks and practices such as DAMA-DMBOK and/or CDMP certification is preferred.\nExperience contributing to technology investment planning, arguments, vendor evaluations, capacity planning, or other portfolio-level investment decisions is preferred.\nBachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business, or a similar field, or equivalent work experience.\nCengage is committed to working with broad talent pools to attract and hire strong and most qualified individuals. Our job applicants are considered regardless of any classification protected by applicable federal, state, provincial or local laws.\nCengage is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities including during our job application process. If you are an applicant with a disability and require reasonable accommodation in our job application process, please contact us at .\nAbout Cengage\nCengage, a global education technology company serving millions of learners, provides affordable, quality digital products and services that equip students with the skills and competencies needed to be job ready. For more than 100 years, we have enabled the power and joy of learning with trusted, engaging content, and now, integrated digital platforms. We serve the higher education, workforce skills, secondary education, English language teaching and research markets worldwide. Through our scalable technology, including MindTap and Cengage Unlimited, we support all learners who seek to improve their lives and achieve their dreams through education.\nCompensation\nAt Cengage Group, we take great pride in our commitment to providing a comprehensive and rewarding Total Rewards package designed to support and empower our employees. Click here to learn more about our Total Rewards Philosophy.\nThe full base pay range has been provided for this position. Individual base pay will vary based on work schedule, qualifications, experience, internal equity, and geographic location. Sales roles often incorporate a significant incentive compensation program beyond this base pay range.\nIn this position, you will be eligible to participate in the company’s discretionary incentive bonus program. 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