Technical Product Manager, Data Strategy
About the role
At Vanguard, we’re committed to helping our clients achieve long-term financial success through clarity, discipline, and a focus on what matters most. As a Technical Product Manager in Data Strategy, you’ll play a key role in making high-quality, trusted data accessible across the organization. Your work will enable better decisions, improve client outcomes, and support scalable, enterprise-wide data solutions. You’ll collaborate with teammates across engineering, analytics, and business functions to build data products that are reliable, well-governed, and designed for real-world impact.
What you’ll do
Lead the vision, strategy, and roadmap for master and reference data products, with accountability across the full data lifecycle—ingestion, transformation, modeling, orchestration, storage, and consumption.
Partner with data engineering, analytics, infrastructure, governance, and business teams to define and apply best practices for master data management (MDM), reference data management (RDM), data modeling, and data quality.
Use SQL and data profiling techniques to explore data, validate requirements, assess quality, and identify trends or issues that inform priorities and decisions.
Translate business needs into clear, actionable data product requirements, including schemas, hierarchies, transformations, service-level agreements (SLAs), and consumption patterns.
Guide delivery teams on effective data product practices, including backlog structure, dependency management, and outcome-based planning.
Collaborate with engineering and stakeholders to troubleshoot and resolve production issues such as data quality defects, pipeline failures, or downstream reporting impacts, using root-cause analysis to drive sustainable solutions.
Support the launch and adoption of data products by improving usability, consistency, and trust across operational systems, analytics, and reporting.
Continuously improve data quality—accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness—while balancing governance needs with speed and usability.
Contribute to prioritization and roadmap discussions by highlighting data risks, architectural dependencies, and platform considerations.
Participate in agile delivery practices, including backlog refinement, sprint planning, design reviews, and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) for data pipelines.
Contribute to broader data initiatives such as metadata management, data discoverability, governance workflows, and domain-based ownership models.
What we’re looking for
Undergraduate degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
At least five years of relevant experience in technical product management, data, or a related field.
Experience working with data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics engineering concepts, including data modeling and BI tools.
Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Experience using data to inform decisions, including hands-on work with SQL or similar tools.
Advanced degree in information technology or related field is a plus.
Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or projects is preferred.
Special Factors
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
Skills Required
- Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- At least five years of relevant experience in technical product management, data, or a related field.
- Experience working with data engineering, business intelligence, or analytics engineering concepts, including data modeling and BI tools.
- Hands-on experience using SQL or similar tools to explore data, validate requirements, and assess quality.
- Ability to collaborate across teams and communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Advanced degree in information technology or related field.
- Experience leading cross-functional initiatives or projects.
Vanguard Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Retirement Support — Retirement support appears unusually strong through a 401(k) design that includes a match plus an additional employer contribution, which can materially lift long-term total rewards. HSA seeding and an enhanced employer match further strengthen the savings-and-benefits value of the package.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing and lifestyle support is reinforced by a sizable annual FlexFund stipend that can be applied across many day-to-day categories such as fitness, childcare, and other personal expenses. On-site or virtual clinics and fitness options add practical health and wellness convenience.
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Affordable Benefits — Healthcare and related benefits are positioned as comparatively affordable via heavily subsidized medical plans and broad coverage options. This affordability can offset moderate base pay for employees who place higher value on out-of-pocket cost reductions.
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What We Do
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