Executive Product Manager - Enterprise Data Platform (Contract)
Rate: £650 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: UK-based 2 Days on site a month
Contract: Long-term engagement
Sector: Large-scale digital / data platforms
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The Opportunity
We are supporting a major organisation undergoing a significant transformation of its enterprise data platform. This platform underpins analytics, personalisation, experimentation, and real-time insights across multiple high-traffic digital products.
The programme focuses on modernising data ingestion, streaming, and real-time processing capabilities to deliver reliable, scalable data at enterprise scale.
This role sits at executive level and offers genuine ownership over strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a critical data platform used across the organisation.
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The Role
As Executive Product Manager, you will lead the product management function for the Enterprise Data Platform. You will define the long-term vision, align multiple product squads, and partner closely with senior engineering and data leaders to ensure the platform delivers measurable value.
This is a hands-on, high-agency role suited to someone comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous environments.
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Key Responsibilities
* Own and deliver the vision and roadmap for an enterprise-scale data platform
* Lead and coach a team of Product Managers aligned to shared outcomes
* Partner with engineering leadership to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency
* Translate organisational needs into clear product outcomes across:
o Analytics
o Personalisation
o Experimentation
o Data transformation
* Drive adoption and usability of the platform across internal teams
* Ensure strong standards around data quality, governance, and security
* Bring external best practices and modern product thinking into the platform strategy
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Essential Experience
* Senior product management experience across complex technical or platform products
* Proven ability to lead, coach, or line-manage Product Managers
* Strong background delivering data platforms or highly technical products
* Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
* Strong technical literacy across:
o Modern data platforms
o Event-driven architectures
o Streaming data pipelines
* Outcome-focused mindset with experience defining and measuring impact
* Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
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Desirable Experience
* Agile and iterative product delivery environments
* Data governance and compliance in large or complex organisations
* Experience working within empowered, cross-functional product teams
* Familiarity with prioritisation frameworks (Impact vs Effort, ICE, Kano, etc.)
* Exposure to data platform modernisation programmes
* Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
* Experience working closely with cloud provider engineering teams
* Background in organisations with strong product cultures