Principal Data Product Manager – Insight & Analytics
* Full-time
* Office: London
We are champions of rail, inspired to build a greener, more sustainable future of travel. Trainline enables millions of travellers to find and book the best value tickets across carriers, fares, and journey options through our highly rated mobile app, website, and B2B partner channels.
Great journeys start with Trainline. Now Europe’s number 1 downloaded rail app, with over 125 million monthly visits and £5.3 billion in annual ticket sales, we collaborate with 270+ rail and coach companies in over 40 countries. We want to create a world where travel is as simple, seamless, and affordable as it should be.
Today, we're a FTSE 250 company driven by our incredible team of over 1,000 Trainliners from 50+ nationalities, based across London, Paris, Barcelona, Milan, Edinburgh, Berlin, Madrid, and Brussels. With our focus on growth in the UK and Europe, now is the perfect time to join us on this high-speed journey!
Introducing the Data team at Trainline
At Trainline, data is at the heart of our operations. Our vision is to empower a data-driven environment where every business decision is backed by easily accessible insights, leveraging the latest in BI tooling and advanced analytics techniques. Through value-driven Data Insight and Analytics products, we enable smarter, faster, and more strategic decision-making across the company.
As a Principal Data Product Manager – Data Insight and Analytics, you will lead the development of impactful insight products, including a robust suite of BI dashboards and a cross-functional metric mart that delivers consistent, actionable metrics across all business domains. You will shape the vision for BI products, tooling, and accessibility, streamlining the time, cost, and expertise needed to generate insights.
Partnering closely with leaders in Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Analytics, you will define a strategic roadmap for data insights that aligns with Trainline’s business objectives, advocating for high-impact initiatives and fostering continuous improvement. You will play a critical role in implementing agile methodologies to maximise the impact and value of our data products.
Working closely with the delivery leads and data delivery teams, you will manage significant projects, deeply exploring solution options to maximise customer impact through Insight. Together with your team, you'll devise and implement detailed plans with clear milestones for monitoring progress and adapting strategies as necessary.
As a Principal Data Product Manager at Trainline, you will...
* Strategic Vision: Develop and champion a strategic vision for Insight and Analytics products that aligns with Trainline’s mission to drive efficient, data-driven decisions.
* Stakeholder Collaboration: Lead on stakeholder collaboration, guiding strategic discussions and decisions to assess data value opportunities.
* Metric Mart Implementation: Oversee the design, deployment, and actualisation of a cross-domain metric mart that spans all business domains.
* Value Proposition Development: Partner with business stakeholders to craft compelling value propositions for insight and analytics initiatives.
* Investment Advocacy: Advocate for and prioritise key investments within the Insight and Analytics domain.
* Project Leadership and Execution: Deliver data initiatives through efficient project execution, guided by a clear and visible execution roadmap.
* Stakeholder Communication and Engagement: Ensure continuous, transparent communication across all stakeholder levels.
* Outcome Ownership: Own and evaluate the performance of Insight and Analytics products.
* Continuous Improvement: Conduct periodic retrospectives on key deliverables to extract learnings for future planning.
We'd love to hear from you if you have...
* University degree or equivalent, preferably in a quantitative field (such as economics, mathematics, engineering, finance etc.)
* Minimum of 7 years in senior roles within data or technical product teams.
* Proven experience in data analytics and BI product development.
* Proven experience in data engineering concepts.
* Exceptional communication skills.
* Extensive experience in evaluating, measuring and communicating data product success.
* Extensive and proven experience using SQL to work with data.
* Experience of working with modern data platforms and technologies.
* Experience with data scripting languages or statistical/mathematical software.
The interview process
* Recruiter Call (30 mins)
* 1st stage interview with Hiring Manager (45mins)
* 2 x 30 mins 2nd stage interviews
* Final stage case study (1 hour)
Enjoy fantastic perks like private healthcare & dental insurance, a generous work from abroad policy, and excellent family-friendly benefits.
We prioritise career growth with clear career paths, transparent pay bands, personal learning budgets, and regular learning days.
Our values represent the things that matter most to us and what we live and breathe every day:
* Think Big: We're building the future of rail.
* Own It: We focus on every customer, partner and journey.
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