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Technology Product & Platform ManagementJob Sub Function:
Multi-Family Technology Product & Platform ManagementJob Category:
People LeaderAll Job Posting Locations:
New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of AmericaJob Description:
Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Director, Head of HR Data Services, located in New Brunswick, NJ.
HR Data & Intelligence sits at the heart of Johnson & Johnson’s HR Digital ecosystem, architecting the intelligence layer that shapes how the company understands, engages, and mobilizes its global workforce. This organization builds and operationalizes enterprise-scale data, analytics, and AI capabilities that do more than inform decisions—they reshape how HR plans, predicts, personalizes, and performs. By unifying data science, employee listening, knowledge management, and responsible AI, HR Data & Intelligence is transforming workforce signals into strategic advantage, ensuring HR is not only insight-led and future-ready, but a trusted steward of ethical, human-centered intelligence at scale. Within this ecosystem, Data Services is the business-owned data platform capability that ensures HR data is trusted, scalable, and analytics-ready.
The Director, Head of HR Data Services is the senior-most leader accountable for the business strategy, product ownership, and value delivery of HR’s enterprise data platform, including the Medallion architecture in Databricks and HR products in the Data Marketplace. As the overall Business Product Owner, this role owns the platform vision, roadmap, prioritization, standards, and outcomes, and leads a dedicated team of data product stewards embedded within HR product squads, business platform managers, and the data quality function. Together, these teams translate HR business and product needs into clear data requirements, ensure high-quality and reusable data assets, and drive adoption of the enterprise platform across HR. The Director, Head of HR Data Services works in close partnership with the Technical Platform Manager, acting as the primary business customer for technical delivery while ensuring that engineering execution aligns to business priorities and product outcomes.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the overall Business Product Owner for HR’s enterprise data platform, owning the vision, roadmap, prioritization, standards, and value realization for the Medallion architecture in Databricks
Own the definition, lifecycle management, and success of HR data products, including how data products are named, scoped, documented, governed, and surfaced within the HR data marketplace
Lead the Data Services business organization, including:
Data Product Stewards embedded within HR product squads who translate business and product needs into data product requirements and maintain those products within the data marketplace
Business Platform Managers who manage platform-level intake, prioritization, roadmap sequencing, and cross-product dependencies
The Data Quality function, accountable for the accuracy, completeness, and trustworthiness of data products published to the marketplace
Establish and enforce enterprise standards for data products, including data domains, contracts, quality thresholds, metadata, documentation, and ownership models that enable reuse and self-service
Ensure the HR data marketplace operates as a trusted system of record for analytics-ready data products used by analytics teams, data science, AI workflows, HR digital products, and executive reporting
Own the data intake and demand management model for HR, ensuring new data sources and use cases are translated into durable data products rather than one-off pipelines
Ensure all HR analytics teams, data science teams, product squads, and AI initiatives consume data through the enterprise data platform and marketplace, preventing bespoke, shadow, or duplicative data solutions
Act as the primary business customer and decision-maker for technical platform delivery, working in close partnership with the Technical Platform Manager to align engineering execution with data product priorities
Partner with Data Governance, Privacy, Security, and HR AI leaders to ensure compliance, ethical use, and AI-readiness are embedded into data product design and platform strategy
Own the business outcomes of the data platform and marketplace, including adoption, usability, reliability, cost efficiency, and enablement of downstream insights and automation
Develop and lead a high-performing, globally distributed team with strong product mindset, clear accountability, and deep understanding of HR data consumers
Continuously evolve the data product and platform strategy based on emerging trends in data marketplaces, analytics engineering, and AI-ready architectures
Qualifications
Required:
A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Engineering, or a related field is required.
8+ years progressive leadership experience owning enterprise data platforms as business products, with accountability for strategy, roadmap, prioritization, and value delivery
Demonstrated experience operating as a Business Product Owner for data or platform capabilities, translating business and product needs into durable data products
Strong technical fluency in modern data architectures (e.g., medallion, layered, or lakehouse patterns) with the ability to partner effectively with engineering and platform teams
Proven experience defining and governing data products and data marketplaces, including data product scope, metadata, documentation, quality standards, and lifecycle management
Experience leading and developing data product stewards, platform managers, and data quality teams in a product‑oriented operating model
Demonstrated ability to establish and enforce enterprise data standards that enable reuse, self‑service, and analytics readiness across multiple consumer groups
Strong stakeholder leadership skills, with the ability to influence senior HR, Digital, and Technology leaders and align competing priorities
Excellent executive communication skills, including the ability to translate complex data and platform concepts into clear business decisions and tradeoffs
Preferred:
Experience operating within an HR, people analytics, or workforce technology environment
Experience partnering with data science, analytics, and AI teams to enable advanced use cases through platform and data product design
Experience working closely with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance teams to embed requirements into data products and platforms
Experience operating in a global organization with awareness of regional data, privacy, and residency considerations
Familiarity with agile or product‑based delivery models and embedded squad operating structures
Other:
This position is located in New Brunswick, NJ full-time and may require up to 10% travel, both domestic and international.
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Business Alignment, Business Architecture, Business Process Design, Business Savvy, Computer Programming, Developing Others, Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Product Knowledge, Program Management, Software Development Management, Strategic Change, Succession Planning, Tactical Planning, Technical CredibilityThe anticipated base pay range for this position is :
$150,000.00 - $258,750.00Additional Description for Pay Transparency:
Subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees are eligible to participate in the Company’s consolidated retirement plan (pension) and savings plan (401(k)).This position is eligible to participate in the Company’s long-term incentive program.
Subject to the terms of their respective policies and date of hire, employees are eligible for the following time off benefits:
Vacation –120 hours per calendar year
Sick time - 40 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Colorado –48 hours per calendar year; for employees who reside in the State of Washington –56 hours per calendar year
Holiday pay, including Floating Holidays –13 days per calendar year
Work, Personal and Family Time - up to 40 hours per calendar year
Parental Leave – 480 hours within one year of the birth/adoption/foster care of a child
Bereavement Leave – 240 hours for an immediate family member: 40 hours for an extended family member per calendar year
Caregiver Leave – 80 hours in a 52-week rolling period10 days
Volunteer Leave – 32 hours per calendar year
Military Spouse Time-Off – 80 hours per calendar year
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data, Engineering, or related field
- 8+ years progressive leadership experience owning enterprise data platforms as business products
- Demonstrated experience operating as a Business Product Owner for data or platform capabilities
- Strong technical fluency in modern data architectures (medallion, layered, or lakehouse patterns)
- Proven experience defining and governing data products and data marketplaces
- Experience leading and developing data product stewards, platform managers, and data quality teams
- Demonstrated ability to establish and enforce enterprise data standards enabling reuse and self-service
- Strong stakeholder leadership skills and ability to influence senior HR, Digital, and Technology leaders
- Excellent executive communication skills translating complex data and platform concepts
- Experience operating within an HR, people analytics, or workforce technology environment
- Experience partnering with data science, analytics, and AI teams to enable advanced use cases
- Experience working closely with data governance, privacy, security, and compliance teams
- Experience operating in a global organization with regional data, privacy, and residency awareness
- Familiarity with agile or product-based delivery models and embedded squad operating structures
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is characterized as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with added supports like onsite clinics, fitness centers, and Employee Assistance resources. Mental-health services and wellbeing reimbursements are also described as meaningful components of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are portrayed as a major differentiator, combining a 401(k) with employer matching and an employer-funded pension plan. Stock options and other long-term financial supports are also positioned as part of the broader rewards mix.
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Parental & Family Support — Family-related benefits are presented as notably strong, including paid parental leave for all new parents and additional leave types for caregiving and bereavement. Financial assistance for adoption, fertility treatment, and surrogacy is highlighted as a significant support.
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