Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

Company: Sonos
Location: Santa Barbara
Posted on: September 9, 2020

Job Description:

At Sonos we want to create the ultimate listening experience for our customers and know that it starts by listening to each other. As part of the Sonos team, youll collaborate with people of all styles, skill sets, and backgrounds to realize our vision while fostering a community where everyone feels included and empowered to do to the best work of their lives.

To fulfill our product mission, we have developed an unquenchable thirst for data. As the Senior Product Manager for the Data Platform, you will work with the team that builds the services, tools and frameworks supporting all of the data at Sonos. Our platform handles everything from IoT data to financial data and everything in between. The platform allows data consumers to onboard, store, transform and access their data. We want to meet our data consumers where they are technically and our platform needs to grow and evolve to ensure data is embedded in every organization at every level. You will be responsible for working with data teams and business leaders across the company to collect requirements and build a vision and a roadmap for the future of our platform. We want to make data a part of every decision at Sonos and we need a platform that helps us get there. If you love data and audio, this is your dream job!* Define and communicate a product vision and strategy to all layers of the organization and gain alignment across Sonos.

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• With the engineering team, develop and track ambitious objectives and measurable results that help your team (and wider organization) understand how their work accrues to data strategy goals.
  
• Build and maintain a roadmap that helps the team to progress - iteratively - towards the vision and objectives. Youll make hard tradeoffs using a blend of qualitative and quantitative inputs and help unblock the team from cross-team dependencies, leveraging your relationships with other teams.
  
• As a technical product manager, you will be able to engage with engineers helping to guide and contribute to architectural decision making. You will identify opportunities to accelerate the roadmap by helping the team evaluate third party solutions and infrastructure while helping to focus the team on innovating in green field areas.
  
• You will partner closely with quality and operational teams to ensure that services and features ship at high quality.
  
• Youll be part of the data leadership at Sonos making sure that we are leveraging our data to help the company succeed in our objectives.
  
• This role requires skills in leadership, technology, partnering and communication. As a successful candidate, you are passionate about tackling (and solving) hard problems. You can confidently talk about code with developers, and you can explain complex technology in simple terms. Youre collaborative, not afraid of being wrong, and you have strong opinions, weakly held.Basic Qualifications
  
  
  5+ years experience in technical product management
  
  3+ years experience working with data platforms & ecosystems
  
  Demonstrated experience communicating (written and verbally) technical ideas to a range of audiences
  
  Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics or equivalent technical roles
  
  Preferred Qualifications
  
  Comfortable making hard decisions using a blend of quantitative and qualitative inputs
  
  Able to define vision and strategy, in addition to solid results-driven execution
  
  Able to influence at all levels of the organization with strong communication skills
  
  Able to execute multiple, complex projects in parallel
  
  Able to analyze large, complex data sets and deduce insights to inform decision making
  
  Strong technical background with an ability to rapidly learn new technologies
  
  Able to work closely with strategic partners through technical integrations
  
  Collaborative spirit and enjoy working in a fast-paced environment

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