Associate Director, Data Product Management

What We Need

The Associate Director of Data Product Management will lead a team of product owners and data analysts, driving the strategy and execution of enterprise data products. This leader will be responsible for maturing the "data-as-a-product" mindset, ensuring that data assets are treated as valuable, reusable, and trusted products that power business decisions, analytics, and AI applications, including Data AI agents.

This role will play a crucial part in our "Data for AI" and "AI for Data" strategy, ensuring we have reliable data to fuel AI innovation while leveraging AI to enhance our data management capabilities. In this highly visible role, the leader will collaborate with business partners, engineering teams, and data governance to define, prioritize, and deliver a roadmap of data capabilities. The Associate Director will be an expert in all facets of data product management, from defining business value and establishing quality SLAs to managing the entire product lifecycle and driving adoption across the user community.

This role is eligible for our Flex Persona. For candidates local to our Boston, MA and Hingham MA offices. 

Your Day to Day

Strategy & Vision:

• Lead and oversee the development and delivery of data products using product management principles and an agile framework.

• Drive the Data Product Management team's strategy and vision, aligning the data product roadmap with enterprise goals and staying current with market trends and customer needs.
• Define and execute the product strategy for advanced data capabilities, including AI-driven data products and AI data agent as a data product.
• Evangelize the value of data products to drive adoption and a data-driven culture across the business and user communities.

Team Leadership & Management:

• Lead, coach, and mentor a team of Product Owners, including those focused on user support and communications.

• Manage and mentor junior data product owners to adopt agile processes for building and delivering high-quality data products.
• Serve as the owner and escalation point for the data product management team, resolving blockers and addressing issues promptly.

Product Lifecycle & Delivery:

• Drive product vision, identification of business value, product road-mapping, and delivery of data products for all applications and platforms.

• Establish and enforce a prioritization framework for data and it’s AI initiatives based on business value, feasibility, reusability, and compliance risk.
• Define clear entry/exit criteria for data products, ensuring they have recurring business value, designated ownership, and meet enterprise-ready standards for quality, lineage, and documentation.
• Manage the team backlog, define epics and user stories, and ensure visibility to business partners and leadership.

We’re Looking for

• Minimum 8 years of progressive work experience in data management, product management, or a related field, with a focus on data, digital, or API products.

• Minimum 4 years of experience leading and mentoring teams of product managers, product owners, or analysts.
• Experience in executive translation & business acumen in proving ability to synthesize complex operational concepts into high-impact business insights, collaborating directly with senior leadership to drive strategic alignment and decision-making.
• Proven experience in designing, developing, and managing products through all phases of the lifecycle, from ideation to decommissioning.
• Expertise in agile delivery frameworks and tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence).
• Deep understanding of data governance, data quality, and metadata management principles.
• Strong experience working with SQL or NoSQL databases and understanding of modern data architecture (e.g., data lake, data warehouse, microservices).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex technical concepts to both business and technical audiences.
• Exposure to AI concepts with regards to building Data AI agents and AI SDLC is highly desirable
• Healthcare domain knowledge is a significant plus

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Scrum Product Owner or similar agile certification is highly desirable.

What You’ll Gain

Enterprise Leadership & Executive Visibility: A high-profile opportunity to gain deep visibility into corporate strategy while leveraging your consultative and analytical expertise to drive product roadmaps, influence senior leadership, and deliver scalable technology solutions across the entire enterprise

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High school degree or equivalent required unless otherwise noted above

The job posting range is the lowest to highest salary we in good faith believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting.  We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future.  An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs and affordability.

This job is also eligible for variable pay.

We offer comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, 401(k), and a suite of well-being benefits to eligible employees.

Note:  No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or any other form of compensation that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.

WHY Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA?

We understand that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can  prevent  amazing candidates coming our way, so please don’t hesitate to apply. We’d love to hear from you. You might be just what we need for this role or possibly another one at Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA. The more voices we have represented and amplified in our business, the more we will all thrive, contribute, and be brilliant. We encourage you to bring us your true colors, , your perspectives, and your experiences. It’s in our differences that we will remain relentless in our pursuit to transform healthcare for ALL.

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