Senior Manager, Data Products
Johnson & Johnson
August 25, 2026
On-site
New Brunswick, NJ
IT
Senior Manager, Data Product Management & Governance
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead a structured intake process for product demand; assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize work based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
- Lead the business-facing roadmap for assigned data products from concept through publication, adoption, improvement, and retirement.
- Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
- Lead development and 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 experience.
- Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
- Maintain business context, data definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls with domain leaders and stewards.
- Serve as primary business-facing 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.
- Provide leadership and mentorship for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree or equivalent experience) 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 preferred.
- Experience with data-as-a-product, business glossary, metadata management, data catalog/marketplace, data stewardship, data quality, access governance, and product lifecycle management.
- Strong ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; excellent written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
- Helpful: modern data platforms, semantic layers, medallion architecture, data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML enablement, enterprise data controls.
Preferred Skills:
- Alation (or similar) enterprise data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
- Business glossaries, data dictionaries, domain taxonomies, data contracts, certification standards, governed data product documentation.
- Supply chain/manufacturing data, quality systems, product lifecycle controls, or enterprise planning processes.
- Operating models, RACI, governance forums, scalable decision frameworks.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and balance strategic/tactical priorities.
Other Requirements:
- Up to 10% travel; fully onsite attendance policy.
Benefits (as stated): Eligible for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, group legal insurance; consolidated retirement plan and 401(k); long-term incentive; specified time-off benefits and parental leave (per plan terms).
Key Role Responsibilities:
- Establish and lead a structured intake process for product demand; assess use cases, define value, clarify requirements, and prioritize work based on strategic alignment, feasibility, risk, and business impact.
- Lead the business-facing roadmap for assigned data products from concept through publication, adoption, improvement, and retirement.
- Translate product objectives, success measures, backlog priorities, and release-ready requirements for delivery teams.
- Lead development and 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 experience.
- Define and operationalize data product ownership, stewardship roles, decision rights, and critical issue paths.
- Maintain business context, data definitions, documentation, access expectations, and lifecycle controls with domain leaders and stewards.
- Serve as primary business-facing 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.
- Provide leadership and mentorship for data curation, stewardship, metadata enrichment, and marketplace operations.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree (or advanced degree or equivalent experience) 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 preferred.
- Experience with data-as-a-product, business glossary, metadata management, data catalog/marketplace, data stewardship, data quality, access governance, and product lifecycle management.
- Strong ability to translate business needs into product requirements, executive narratives, measurable outcomes, and delivery priorities; excellent written/verbal/facilitation/management skills.
- Helpful: modern data platforms, semantic layers, medallion architecture, data pipelines, analytics platforms, AI/ML enablement, enterprise data controls.
Preferred Skills:
- Alation (or similar) enterprise data catalog/marketplace/metadata management.
- Business glossaries, data dictionaries, domain taxonomies, data contracts, certification standards, governed data product documentation.
- Supply chain/manufacturing data, quality systems, product lifecycle controls, or enterprise planning processes.
- Operating models, RACI, governance forums, scalable decision frameworks.
- Ability to operate in ambiguity and balance strategic/tactical priorities.
Other Requirements:
- Up to 10% travel; fully onsite attendance policy.
Benefits (as stated): Eligible for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, business accident insurance, group legal insurance; consolidated retirement plan and 401(k); long-term incentive; specified time-off benefits and parental leave (per plan terms).