Principal Product Manager, Data

About Cardlytics
Remember that time you got cash back on a cup of coffee through your banking app? That was us!

Cardlytics (NASDAQ: CDLX) is the industry-leading purchase intelligence and incentives platform. We are a product-driven company that cares about three things: our people, our customers, and our partners. Together, we make commerce more rewarding for everyone by helping businesses attract, understand, and incentivize consumers through their banks’ digital channels.

About the Team
Our Data organization is the backbone of all our operations, responsible for ingesting transactions, validating redemptions, and maintaining a robust data platform accessible across the organization. The team ensures the integrity and reliability of our data. We empower our customers, partners, and employees with accurate and timely insights to drive success in our dynamic offers marketplace.

About the Position

Location: Menlo Park, CA

As a Principal Product Manager, Data, you'll lead the charge of processing the rich dataset of 50% of all credit card transactions in US. Your primary responsibilities will include - building and optimizing data lake tables, maintaining robust data pipelines, and optimizing performance to reduce transaction processing latencies. This role will be reporting to VP of Product. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with large data sets and a strong ability to derive actionable insights. A solid understanding of advertising and fintech is a significant advantage. Join us in shaping the future of data at Cardlytics!

Responsibilities:

As a key member of the Data team, you will be responsible for driving the development and adoption of our data products, ensuring they are well-documented and accessible to cross-functional teams. 

• Manage the core data pipeline that efficiently processes hundreds of millions of transactions and events daily from various financial institutions.

• Create and execute a high-impact, data-driven product roadmap.

• Navigate business goals, focusing on long-term growth, short-term opportunities, platform stability, and the rapid expansion of product capabilities.

• Monitor the day-to-day product development lifecycle, overseeing sprints, evaluating outcomes, and iterating strategies.

• Work closely with the Engineering team to ensure the product vision is scalable.

• Communicate and outline achievable product objectives for Engineering, adjusting scope as necessary to meet key milestones.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in product management.

• 4+ years of experience with AWS, SQL, and BI/reporting tools like Tableau.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or a related field.

• An accomplished authority in data lake technologies with extensive experience in designing and implementing data products.

• An effective communicator.

• Results-oriented, capable of managing the entire product development lifecycle from start to finish.

• Data-driven and have experience developing comprehensive metrics and dashboards. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AWS with formats like Hudi, Athena or equivalent technologies.

• Passionate about data visualization.

• Enjoys optimizing query performance.

Core Values

Our shared values are the driving force behind everything we do. Across all roles, we are looking for teammates who embody these values:

• Customer and Partner-first

• Act with Urgency and Focus

• Integrity with our partners and data

• Accountability even when challenged

• Empowerment over hierarchy

• Growth over comfort 

Compensation

At Cardlytics salary ranges are determined based on factors such as role, level, and location. Individual compensation may be determined by relevant skills, experience, education, training, and other role-specific criteria. This salary range will be narrowed during the interview process based on a number of the aforementioned factors.The base salary range provided below does not include bonuses and additional benefits.

The annual US base salary range for this role is:

Range - $190,000-$225,000

Benefits and Perks      

• Flexible paid time off plus company holidays

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance begins on your first day

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match, plan also includes a student loan debt repayment option

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• Educational assistance for continuing education

• Lifestyle Spending Account for physical, emotional, and financial wellness (like gym memberships, home down payments, art classes, park passes, and more!)

• Complementary Calm app subscriptions to support employee mental health and wellbeing

As an equal opportunity employer, Cardlytics is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our people bring our products and organization to life, and every unique perspective makes us better. If you can do the job and you’re excited about growing with us as we scale our best-in-class advertising platform, we’d love to hear from you. If you need accommodation in the recruiting process due to a disability, please email [email protected] or inform your recruiter.