Data Product Owner

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Job Description:

Summary

The Data Product Owner role owns the end-to-end delivery of data as a product—partnering with customers and internal teams to define a market-leading data offering, translate needs into clear requirements, and ensure
high-quality, secure, and scalable data products.

Essential Functions

• Monitor internal processes and product performance using Power BI dashboards, KPIs, and data quality signals; identify issues and drive corrective actions.
• Own the data product roadmap and backlog: define epics, write user stories with acceptance criteria, and prioritize delivery based on customer value, risk, and feasibility.
• Develop a strategic plan to evolve current data capabilities into a market-leading data product (e.g., data access, packaging, governance, pricing/entitlements, and customer experience).
• Drive requirements with the established enterprise IT data management team to access, model, and transform data (e.g., in Snowflake) into customer-ready insights and products.
• Partner with IT Data and AI teams to expose data to customers safely and effectively, including enabling data for GenAI and ML use cases.
• Assess customer needs for data and access to data through discovery, interviews, and feedback loops; translate needs into API, dataset, and analytics requirements.
• Develop and operationalize machine learning models that support fleet managers in daily operations (e.g., predictions, anomaly detection, recommendations), collaborating with IT data science and engineering.
• Define and maintain product metrics (adoption, latency, freshness, accuracy, SLAs) and establish ongoing observability for data pipelines and APIs.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with IT engineering, analytics, security, legal/compliance, and customer teams to deliver secure, reliable, and scalable data products.

Additional Responsibilities

• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated ability to run customer discovery and translate needs into technical requirements, user stories, and measurable outcomes., Required
• Hands-on experience with Power BI (or similar) for KPI definition, dashboarding, and performance monitoring., Required
• Experience visualizing data and communicating insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders., Required
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and ability to drive decisions in ambiguous, cross-functional environments., Required
• Experience with data product governance (data contracts, catalog/lineage, quality rules, entitlement models, privacy-by-design)., Preferred
• Experience in logistics, fleet management, telematics, or operational analytics., Preferred

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)., Required
• 3 years or more in Experience in product ownership/management, technical program management, or analytics roles delivering data platforms, data products, or API-enabled capabilities., Required
• Strong working knowledge of cloud data warehousing and analytics patterns; experience with Snowflake preferred. Expert, Required
• Understanding of APIs (REST concepts, authentication/authorization, versioning) and how customers consume data products programmatically. Advanced, Required
• Familiarity with machine learning concepts and lifecycle (feature definition, evaluation metrics, monitoring/drift) and partnering with data science teams to deliver ML-enabled products. Advanced, Required
• Familiarity with ML Ops practices (model deployment, monitoring, drift detection) and experimentation/A-B testing. Intermediate, Preferred
• Working knowledge of agile practices and tools (e.g., Scrum/Kanban; Jira/Azure DevOps). Intermediate, Preferred
• Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), Preferred
• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300), Preferred
• Snowflake SnowPro Core Certification, Preferred

Travel

• Yes, 1-10%

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Compensation Information:

The compensation offered to a candidate may be influenced by a variety of factors, including the candidate’s relevant experience; education, including relevant degrees or certifications; work location; market data/ranges; internal equity; internal salary ranges; etc. The position may also be eligible to receive an annual bonus, commission, and/or long-term incentive plan based on the level and/or type. Compensation ranges for the position are below:

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Benefits Information:

For all Full-time positions only: Ryder offers comprehensive health and welfare benefits, to include medical, prescription, dental, vision, life insurance and disability insurance options, as well as paid time off for vacation, illness, bereavement, family and parental leave, and a tax-advantaged 401(k) retirement savings plan.

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