Data Product Manager

About Emerald

Emerald’s talented and experienced teams grow our customers’ businesses 365 days a year with products that create connections, deliver content, and drive commerce. We produce over 140 annual events, create and deliver content through print and digital channels, and power commerce through our seamlessly integrated in-person and digital platforms and channels. For more information, please visit http://www.emeraldx.com.

We are seeking a Data Product Manager to support the VP of Data Strategy & Analytics in shaping and delivering high-impact data products across our B2B events and media business. This role will serve as the critical bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that data initiatives are grounded in clear requirements, aligned with strategic priorities, and successfully executed.

You will be responsible for gathering and documenting business needs, translating them into detailed user stories and technical requirements, and supporting the full lifecycle of data product development. This includes analytics dashboards, audience intelligence tools, data integrations, reporting capabilities, and emerging AI-enhanced features.

Ideal candidates combine strong analytical thinking with structured product documentation skills and a deep understanding of data concepts. This role is responsible for gathering business requirements, prioritization and execution of the roadmap.

Responsibilities

Business Requirements & Analysis

• Partner closely with stakeholders across events, sales, marketing, product, and editorial to capture and clarify business needs related to analytics, reporting, and data-driven workflows.
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and process mapping to define business problems, desired outcomes, and success criteria.
• Translate findings into clear, actionable product requirements, including user journeys, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.

User Story Development & Backlog Management

• Write detailed user stories that articulate business value, user needs, and technical considerations for data engineers, analysts, and platform teams.
• Manage and prioritize the product backlog in alignment with the VP’s strategic direction and business impact.
• Ensure user stories are refined, sized, and ready for sprint planning sessions.

Data Product Development & Delivery

• Partner with data engineering and analytics teams to guide the development of dashboards, data models, integration workflows, and customer-facing data products.
• Validate deliverables against requirements and acceptance criteria, ensuring accuracy, usability, and business alignment.
• Support user acceptance testing (UAT) and orchestrate feedback loops with business partners.

Stakeholder Communication & Enablement

• Communicate product updates, timelines, and changes to internal stakeholders in a structured and transparent manner.
• Create documentation, release notes, and user guides to support adoption and ongoing usage.
• Evangelize data products across the organization, helping teams understand their value and applications.

Process, Governance & Quality

• Contribute to data governance initiatives by documenting data definitions, sources, and lineage as part of product requirements.
• Ensure product decisions adhere to data quality, privacy, and compliance standards.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement within data workflows, reporting systems, and request intake.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, data analytics, information systems, or related field.
• 3–5 years of experience as a product manager, business systems analyst, data analyst, or similar role within a data-driven environment.
• Proven experience writing detailed user stories, functional requirements, and process documentation.
• Solid understanding of data concepts such as data models, data pipelines, KPIs, and BI/reporting tools.
• Strong knowledge of cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Databricks), modern BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau), and analytics environments.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to break down ambiguous problems, prioritize needs, and align stakeholders around shared outcomes.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-paced environment with shifting priorities across multiple teams.

About Emerald

At Emerald, we strive to foster a diverse and inclusive community. We actively recruit and champion candidates who bring new perspectives from varied professional backgrounds and experiences, and we are intentional about ensuring a positive hiring experience for everyone. Our job postings don’t contain experience inflation, and most don’t require college degrees. Instead, they’re crafted to focus on outcomes and transferable experiences that are assessed in a structured interview process carried out by trained hiring teams. 

COMPENSATION & BENEFITS

Target Compensation: $90,000-100,000

Please note that this range reflects a reasonable estimate of the target compensation for this position. This range may ultimately vary based on a candidate’s qualifications and may be higher where required by applicable law. 

We offer a competitive benefits package designed to strengthen our employees’ physical and mental health, including unlimited vacation for exempt employees, flexible working locations, 401(k) plan with a company match, medical/dental/vision coverage with inclusive provisions including transgender services and fertility benefits, parental and caregiver leave, dependent, commuter and FSA benefits, professional development programs like Toastmasters, and mental wellness tools.

If you need accommodation in our application process or have questions about our posted salary range, please email our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected].