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Sr. Product Manager, Data Platforms

Boston, Massachusetts

Hybrid Office Model

About Stride

Stride Funding is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent, while simultaneously tackling the student debt crisis. (Yep, we think BIG.) Our innovative platform meaningfully connects employers, educational institutions, and diverse talent to drive mutual benefit—using accessible education financing as the thread. We like to think of ourselves as more than a fintech; we’re a catalyst for economic mobility.

A Forbes Fintech 50 company, portfolio company of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management — the largest HR organization out there!) and recipient of “Startup of the Year” by StartUp Boston, Stride is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation. We are reshaping the future of the workforce one opportunity at a time. Join us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond.

What We Need

Stride is excited to bring on a Technical Product Manager to lead Stride’s data platform initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for leading our data systems, and ensuring their integrity, compliance, and supporting tools and systems for our data scientists, internal teams and our partners. As a part of this, you will drive the long-term strategy for how we build data products to increase the velocity of the product, engineering, compliance and go to market teams. This includes defining guidelines and processes, coordinating across teams, knowledge sharing, and ensuring data quality. A crucial component of this role will be managing the entire Data Lifecycle Policy for the company while fostering a data culture that supports the growth of the business. In addition, you will support legal requests and data privacy audits by facilitating data and analytics teams and implementing efficient and robust workflows.

What You'll Do

  • Collaborate with engineering and data science teams to prioritize and manage the development roadmap for Stride’s data platforms and analytical services and tools.
  • Develop and implement data governance policies and operational processes to ensure the accuracy, quality, reliability, and accessibility of data.
  • Establish and enforce data quality standards, monitoring services, and auditing processes for operational conformance and legal requests in a federated environment.
  • Partner with our business leaders – top executives, Department Leaders, Eng leaders, and PMs - to understand their environment and needs.
  • Foster a culture of data stewardship through communication, awareness campaigns, and training to advocate for accountability and ownership of data.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive enterprise data lifecycle management plan to align data best practices for engineering, product, business analytics, and legal teams.
  • Establish goals, success metrics, and a roadmap by aligning them with Stride’s mission and company goals; drive maximum impact on key metrics while aligning with internal stakeholders 
  • Collaborate with Stride feature teams to anticipate customer needs, and help Stride make strategic technology bets to position itself for world-class stability, agility, and delivery while maintaining a compliant data lifecycle policy, partnering closely with Analytics, Product Managers, ML Engineers, and Data Engineers.
  • Champion a balanced product development process that champions passion and team pride and incentivizes the right behaviors that ensure we reach our vision.

What You'll Need

  • At least 6+ years of experience in technical product management, data platform development, or data science and analysis in a high-growth B2B tech company.
  • Deep expertise working with data warehouses, business intelligence systems (SQL proficiency is a must), data pipelines and Jupyter notebooks
  • Familiarity with the modern data stack including hands-on experience managing and selecting best of breed open source and commercial solutions. We use DBT, Airflow, Superset, PostgreSQL and BigQuery but also rely on trusted partners to accelerate our teams’ efforts
  • Track record of launching amazing data-centric products and/or managing data-driven services that shape and improve the user experience.
  • Experience implementing and evangelizing best practices such as data classification levels, pseudo-anonymization, and data access control policies.
  • Strong Leadership/Mentoring experience.
  • To be an Innovator: You can abstract insights from qualitative and quantitative insights, make tough trade-offs to launch a successful MVP, and set the teams up for quick, data-driven iterations.
  • To be the Voice of the Customer: You understand how to use data and analytical insights to increase user engagement and improve understanding of consumer behavior through consumer product fundamentals and frameworks and can apply those skills toward building large-scale data products in a compliant way.
  • To be the Strategist: You know how other companies develop strategies that leverage data and analytics to increase consumer engagement through data-driven insights and how Stride can differentiate through similar capabilities.
  • To be a Storyteller: You connect your team's work back to objectives that the Executive team prioritizes.
  • To be Results-Oriented: Drive results from your teams' roadmaps that deliver value for our members and business.

What We Give In Return

  • Competitive cash and equity compensation 
  • Health benefits (health & dental), 401k
  • Commuter benefits
  • Flexible PTO policy
  • Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team.

If you are a highly driven individual with a passion for technology, and you thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment, we want to hear from you! Join us in revolutionizing the workforce solution industry and making a meaningful impact on businesses worldwide. Apply now to be a part of our growing team!

We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees feel valued, respected, and empowered to contribute their unique perspectives and talents. Stride is an equal opportunity employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We embrace diversity and are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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