You’ll work across business, product, and engineering teams to enable smarter decision-making, data consistency, and trusted insights throughout the organization. This role is ideal for a product leader who thrives in ambiguity, loves translating complex data needs into scalable solutions, and is passionate about using data as a competitive advantage.
What You'll Do:
Set the vision for data as a product — define how First American Trust collects, manages, and activates data to drive innovation, operational efficiency, and customer experience.
Develop and maintain the data strategy roadmap, including key initiatives for data governance, data architecture, master data management, analytics enablement, and data quality.
Collaborate with business, product, and engineering teams to understand data needs, align on shared goals, and deliver high-value data capabilities.
Define and prioritize data requirements and use cases, ensuring alignment with enterprise goals and compliance standards (e.g., privacy, security, regulatory).
Champion data governance practices by helping define data ownership models, metadata management, and stewardship processes.
Deliver self-service data tools and dashboards that empower business stakeholders.
Leverage insights to drive strategic decisions, ensuring that product and business teams have access to reliable, actionable data.
Work closely with engineering and delivery team to deliver new data pipelines, APIs, and integrations that support product capabilities and reporting.
Define success metrics and KPIs for data initiatives, tracking progress on data availability, quality, adoption, and impact.
Ensure compliance and trust by embedding security, privacy, and data ethics principles into all data-related initiatives.
Support change management and adoption, helping teams across the organization leverage new data products and insights effectively..
What You’ll Bring
Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Business, Computer Science, Data Science, or Information Systems) or equivalent experience.
5–7 years of experience in product management, with at least 3 years focused on data platforms, analytics, or data strategy.
Proven ability to define and deliver data-centric products or platforms—data lakes, warehouses, governance tools, or APIs.
Experience translating business goals into data strategies, aligning technology and process to drive measurable outcomes.
Familiarity with modern data architectures and tools (e.g., Snowflake, Databricks, AWS/GCP/Azure data stacks, Airflow, dbt).
Understanding of data governance principles and compliance frameworks (e.g., GDPR, CCPA, GLBA).
Strong analytical mindset with the ability to assess complex systems, data flows, and dependencies.
Excellent communication skills—able to bridge technical and non-technical teams with clarity and influence.
Demonstrated ability to manage priorities, negotiate trade-offs, and deliver high-impact solutions in an agile environment.
Passion for building data-driven cultures and enabling teams to make better decisions through trustworthy, accessible data.
Experience working in or with financial services, banking, or real estate data is highly desirable.
Pay Range: $126,100 - $168,125 Annually
This hiring range is a reasonable estimate of the base pay range for this position at the time of posting. Pay is based on a number of factors which may include job-related knowledge, skills, experience, business requirements, and geographic location.
** Note that the following statements only apply to candidates who will be working from an unincorporated area within Los Angeles County. **
First American will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws (e.g., the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act).
First American intends to conduct a review of an applicant’s criminal history in connection with a conditional offer. First American reasonably believes that a criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following material job duties for this position potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: handling of confidential, proprietary or trade secret information belonging to First American or its customers, administrating or facilitating financial transactions, and the ability to meet customer-imposed criminal history requirements.
Based on eligibility, First American offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision, 401k, PTO/paid sick leave and other great benefits like an employee stock purchase plan.Top Skills
What We Do
First American provides financial services through its Title Insurance and Services segment and its Specialty Insurance segment. The First American Family of Companies’ core business lines include title insurance and closing/settlement services; title plant management services; title and other real property records and images; valuation products and services; home warranty products; property and casualty insurance; and banking, trust, and investment advisory services.
First American Title Insurance Company provides comprehensive title insurance protection and professional settlement services for homebuyers and sellers, real estate agents and brokers, mortgage lenders, commercial property professionals, homebuilders and developers, title agencies and legal professionals to facilitate real estate purchases, construction, refinances or equity loans.
First American's thorough title searches, title clearance and title insurance policies help to produce clear property titles and enable the efficient transfer of real estate.
As one of the largest title insurance companies in the nation, First American offers title insurance and settlement services through its direct operations and an extensive network of agents throughout the United States and internationally.
First American Title Insurance Company traces its history to 1889 and is the largest subsidiary of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF).
