Senior Manager, Data Products
Johnson & Johnson
August 25, 2026
On-site
Raritan, NJ
IT
Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead structured intake for product demand: assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
- Own business-facing roadmap for data products (concept → publication → adoption → improvement → retirement).
- Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
- Develop and drive adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, and product content to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
- Partner with Alation and catalog teams to enable a consistent self-service data marketplace.
- Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
- Partner with domain leaders/stewards to maintain business context, definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls.
- Serve as primary business partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
- Track adoption/usage/feedback and business value; improve usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics/AI enablement.
- Lead and mentor team member capabilities for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree/equivalent) in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or related field.
- 8+ years in data governance, data/digital product management, or enterprise data platforms.
- Experience in regulated, global enterprise environments; MedTech/healthcare/pharma/life sciences/supply chain/quality/manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Confirmed data-as-a-product expertise: glossaries, metadata, data catalog/marketplace, stewardship, data quality, access governance, and lifecycle management.
- Ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; strong written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
Preferred Skills/Capabilities:
- Alation (or similar) data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
- Business glossary/data dictionary/domain taxonomy/data contract/certification standards/governed documentation experience.
- Supply chain/manufacturing/quality/product lifecycle or enterprise planning familiarity.
- Ability to define operating models, RACI, governance forums, and scalable decision frameworks.
Other Requirements:
- Up to 10% domestic/international travel.
- Fully onsite attendance policy.
Role Responsibilities:
- Lead structured intake for product demand: assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
- Own business-facing roadmap for data products (concept → publication → adoption → improvement → retirement).
- Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
- Develop and drive adoption of business definitions, domain taxonomies, and product content to improve data discoverability, understanding, and reuse.
- Partner with Alation and catalog teams to enable a consistent self-service data marketplace.
- Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
- Partner with domain leaders/stewards to maintain business context, definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls.
- Serve as primary business partner to data engineering, architecture, platform, and ecosystem product teams.
- Track adoption/usage/feedback and business value; improve usability, reduce duplication, increase reuse, and accelerate responsible analytics/AI enablement.
- Lead and mentor team member capabilities for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree/equivalent) in business, information systems, data analytics, supply chain, engineering, healthcare, or related field.
- 8+ years in data governance, data/digital product management, or enterprise data platforms.
- Experience in regulated, global enterprise environments; MedTech/healthcare/pharma/life sciences/supply chain/quality/manufacturing strongly preferred.
- Confirmed data-as-a-product expertise: glossaries, metadata, data catalog/marketplace, stewardship, data quality, access governance, and lifecycle management.
- Ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; strong written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
Preferred Skills/Capabilities:
- Alation (or similar) data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
- Business glossary/data dictionary/domain taxonomy/data contract/certification standards/governed documentation experience.
- Supply chain/manufacturing/quality/product lifecycle or enterprise planning familiarity.
- Ability to define operating models, RACI, governance forums, and scalable decision frameworks.
Other Requirements:
- Up to 10% domestic/international travel.
- Fully onsite attendance policy.