The Product Owner II – BI is a highly technical product leadership role embedded within a modern data and analytics product team. This role requires deep fluency in data platforms, data engineering practices, and BI technologies, paired with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear, outcome‑focused discussions with business partners.
The Product Owner works across architecture, infrastructure, and data engineering teams, actively participating in and leading technical discussions related to data design, integration, quality, and performance, while also partnering closely with business stakeholders to understand their data needs and business problems in their language. This role owns the end‑to‑end delivery and evolution of BI and data products that enable trusted, scalable, and actionable insights across the organization.
Technical Product Ownership- Own the vision, roadmap, and backlog for BI and data products, including data pipelines, analytical datasets, semantic models, dashboards, and reporting platforms.
- Participate in and lead technical discussions with data engineering, architecture, and infrastructure teams regarding solution design, data flows, system dependencies, scalability, and performance.
- Define and prioritize work across database platforms, cloud data services, and data integration tooling to ensure reliable, high‑quality analytics delivery.
- Ensure technical solutions align with enterprise data architecture, security, and governance standards.
- Serve as the primary interface between technical delivery teams and business partners.
- Translate business problems, KPIs, and analytical questions into clear, technically sound product requirements and user stories.
- Communicate data concepts, tradeoffs, and limitations in business‑friendly language while maintaining technical rigor.
- Lead discovery sessions to define success metrics, reporting needs, and analytical outcomes.
- Partner closely with data engineers and analytics engineers working with relational and cloud‑based data platforms.
- Ensure adherence to data engineering best practices including dimensional data modeling, analytics‑ready datasets, and governed metrics.
- Guide prioritization related to data quality, observability, lineage, and reliability.
- Validate that BI solutions meet standards for accuracy, usability, performance, and scalability.
- Maintain a refined and prioritized backlog with well‑defined user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with agile teams throughout design, development, testing, and release.
- Review and accept technical deliverables, ensuring alignment with business intent and architectural expectations.
- Identify risks, dependencies, and constraints related to data availability, system integration, or infrastructure.
- Contribute to a data product ecosystem leveraging current, industry‑leading technologies.
- Support the adoption of cloud‑native data services, automated data pipelines, and CI/CD practices.
- Partner with engineering teams to enable automation, scalability, and reliability across data integrations.
- Support exploration and adoption of AI‑enabled analytics, advanced data tooling, and modern data platform patterns.
This role operates within a modern data and analytics ecosystem, including:
- Databases & Cloud Platforms: SQL Server, AWS S3, AWS Redshift (or similar cloud data platforms)
- Data Integration & Orchestration: ETL/ELT tools such as SSIS, CData, dbt, Astronomer
- Data Engineering Practices: Dimensional data modeling, analytics‑ready transformations, semantic layers
- Data Quality & Observability: Data validation, monitoring, reconciliation, and lineage best practices
- BI & Visualization Tools: Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or equivalent
- Engineering Enablement: Automated CI/CD pipelines, cloud services, and modern integration strategies
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Information Systems, Analytics, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent experience.
- 3–6 years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Analyst, or Analytics role within a data‑intensive environment.
- Strong working knowledge of SQL and relational data structures.
- Demonstrated experience working closely with data engineering and technical architecture teams.
- Proven ability to balance technical depth with business communication.
- Hands‑on experience supporting products built on cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, Snowflake, Databricks).
- Familiarity with ETL/ELT frameworks and modern data pipeline architectures.
- Experience working in Agile/Scrum product teams.
- Product Owner or Agile certifications (CSPO, PSPO, SAFe PO/PM).
- Exposure to AI‑driven analytics, automation, or advanced data tooling.
- Core Medical Coverage: (low cost low deductible Medical, Dental, and Vison Insurance plans)
- 401K Retirement Plan with 7% Employer Contribution
- Exceptional Paid Time Off
- Maternity / Paternity Leave
- Infertility Treatment Program
- Adoption Assistance
- Education Assistance
- Enterprise Learning and Development
- And more
ALSAC is an equal employment opportunity employer.
ALSAC does not discriminate against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, disability, veteran status, genetic information or other protected status.
No Search Firms:
ALSAC does not accept unsolicited assistance from search firms for employment opportunities. All resumes submitted by search firms to any ALSAC employee or ALSAC representative via email, the internet or in any form and/or method without being contacted and approved by our Employee Experience team and without a valid written search agreement in place will result in no fee being paid if a referred candidate is hired by ALSAC.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Product Development, or related field
- 6-8 years of experience in a Product Owner, Product Analyst, or similar role
- Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum delivery teams
- Ability to elicit, document, and prioritize business and technical requirements
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to make informed decisions in fast-paced environments
- Experience supporting enterprise IT systems or platforms
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, data flows, or cloud-based solutions
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager, CSPO, or similar Agile certification
- Experience working in regulated or security-conscious environments
What We Do
ALSAC is the largest healthcare-related charity in the United States. Founded in 1957 by Danny Thomas, our sole mission is to raise the funds and awareness needed to operate and maintain St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®. While our headquarters can be found in Memphis, Tennessee, we have additional offices in more than 30 locations across the country and in Puerto Rico with positions in fundraising, marketing, digital, information technology, legal, finance and many other disciplines all supporting our lifesaving mission - Finding cures. Saving children. ® At ALSAC, we believe in hiring the best and brightest from around the globe, and in 2020 we were named #1 on Fast Company's 100 Best Workplaces for Innovators. With a concerted focus on diversity and inclusion, we value and respect the contributions of all of our employees. Our work environment encourages everyone to be their authentic selves as we strive together towards a day when “no child dies in the dawn of life.” As we look to the future, we understand that we must be relentlessly innovative. Our work helps fuel the groundbreaking research and treatment at St. Jude and ensures that families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. View our career opportunities at https://www.stjude.org/jobs/alsac.html and follow ALSAC across social media using @stjude. To learn more about the research hospital, follow St. Jude Children's Research Hospital on LinkedIn. For specific career opportunities available through the hospital, visit www.stjude.org/JoinOurMission.
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