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Iñaki Herrán

@inakiherran

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Product Owner — Data Platforms & Governance | Mercedes-Benz | MSc Data Engineering

Spain

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What I'm looking for

Product roles (Owner, Manager, Advocate) in data-centric products - data-intensive platforms, or analytics/AI enablement.

Open to B2B SaaS, enterprise tech, automotive/mobility, and other industries if the product makes a difference.

Remote preferred / hybrid in Madrid (Spain) / not open to relocation

I want to work where product decisions are close to engineering.

Product Owner at Mercedes-Benz Group Services, where I lead the Dev Team for the Corporate Data Catalog, an enterprise platform that improves metadata quality and data discoverability across the organization.

I drive cross-functional delivery in a 6-team SAFe setup, integrating our catalog with a Data Product Marketplace, SAP LeanIX and Signavio, and streamlining data pipelines to support analytics and AI readiness.

Before this, I spent 3.5 years as IT Consultant in the same org, onboarding and training 100+ internal clients on ServiceNow, building ITIL-compliant service management processes, and coordinating cross-vendor delivery with Infosys.

Background: Industrial Management Engineering (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) + recently Master's in Data Engineering & Cloud (MBIT Data School, 2025–26), covering Azure, AWS, Databricks, and AI enablement.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Product Owner - Corporate Data Catalog

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Mercedes-Benz Group Services

May 2025 - Present (10 months)

Defined product strategy to balance business goals, technical feasibility, and user needs, improving enterprise metadata quality. Drove cross-functional delivery in a 6-team SAFe setup, integrating a Data Product Marketplace with tools like SAP LeanIX and SAP Signavio and streamlining pipelines to support analytics and AI readiness.

Product Strategy Product Ownership Data Governance Data Catalogs Data Integration SAP LeanIX SAP Signavio SAFe Data Pipelines Analytics & AI Enablement

IT Consultant

Mercedes-Benz Group Services

Oct 2021 - Apr 2025 (3 years 6 months)

Onboarded and trained 100+ internal clients (technical and non-technical) on ServiceNow modules to enable end-to-end adoption and optimization. Provided IT service management consultancy by training L1–L3 support, improving reporting expertise, and ensuring new IT demands were ITIL-compliant while supporting platform strategy through cross-vendor collaboration with ServiceNow and Infosys.

ServiceNow IT Service Management ITIL Compliance Customer Onboarding Training & Enablement Stakeholder Management Reporting Support Enablement (L1 L3)SaaS Consulting Process Consultancy

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

MBIT Data School

Master's in Data Engineering, Cloud & Big Data, Data Engineering, Cloud & Big Data

2025 - 2026

Master's-level program focused on Data Engineering pipelines and Cloud infrastructure (Azure & AWS), covering the data lifecycle from ingestion to consumption. Emphasizes data governance and cloud-native architectures.