Principal Product Manager, Data Analytics Platforms - London
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead strategic product initiatives and drive innovation across our Data Analytics Platform portfolio. This role is ideal for a strategic and technically proficient product leader who can drive product vision and execution at scale. You’ll work with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and our business leaders to deliver innovative solutions that empower our internal stakeholders and clients to meet their outcomes.
What You’ll Be Doing
1. Own the Product Strategy & Vision: Accountability for building platform tooling and innovative AI/ML capabilities to support data exploration and insight generation from quantitative data.
2. Define a long-term roadmap: Guide the execution of high-impact features that improve the user experience.
3. Collaborate with Cross-Functional Teams: Work closely with engineering, design, marketing, business development, and sales teams to define and validate product requirements, driving consensus across various stakeholders.
4. Define and Prioritize Features: Develop comprehensive business cases and product roadmaps. Translate complex business and technical requirements into clear user stories and product features and manage a robust product backlog.
5. Performance and Impact Metrics: Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success criteria for your products. Measure and analyze product performance, iterating based on real-world usage, and continuously improving the user experience.
6. Lead Product Development: Act as the primary Product Owner for the team, driving the product development process, grooming the backlog, and leading product iteration cycles. Lead by example to ensure high-quality delivery with a customer-first approach.
7. Community Engagement & Advocacy: Champion the voice of the customer across the organization, leveraging direct user feedback, community engagement, and market insights. Create and drive initiatives to foster engagement with our user community.
8. Evangelize and Enable: Provide thought leadership both internally and externally. Enable GTM with effective product training, collateral, and messaging to ensure alignment with product value propositions.
Skills and Experience Needed
1. 8+ years’ experience in product management roles, preferably a good portion of it in designing and building insight solutions.
2. Strategic Product Thinking: Strong analytical skills to define and prioritize product features based on user needs, business value, and technical feasibility. Ability to see the big picture while being detail-oriented in execution.
3. Senior Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage with and influence commercial partners and senior business stakeholders and present to a broad range of internal and client stakeholders.
4. Technical Product Knowledge: Proven track record of working with Data Visualization products like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Looker and possesses conceptual understanding of analytics data architecture.
5. AI Solutions delivery: At least 2 years of experience in delivering AI/ML solutions from ideation to execution. Experience delivering GenAI based solutions will be a bonus (though not essential).
6. Leadership and Team-Building: You're experienced and confident in managing within a matrixed organization. You bring empathy as well as mentorship in leading your team and cross-functional teams.
7. Data-Driven: Solid experience in analyzing product data, defining hypotheses, and measuring the impact of product features. You will need to be able to effectively translate data into actionable insights.
8. Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills, with the ability to present product roadmaps, explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders, and collaborate across teams.
9. Entrepreneurial Spirit: A self-starter with a strong desire to innovate and build products that have a lasting impact on the market and the user community. MBA or equivalent business experience is a plus.
Why join Kantar?
We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever-shifting world.
And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers, and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.
Location
London, UK – Hybrid.
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