Senior Product Manager, Data Platform

Company: Sonos
Location: Santa Barbara
Posted on: September 13, 2020

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Senior Product Manager, Data Platform Department: Platforms and Infrastructure

Location: Boston, Santa Barbara, Seattle

Req#: 6068

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, you’ll 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! About You More than a candidate that checks every box, we’re looking for people who are excited to work, learn, and grow at Sonos—no matter their background or how they identify. If that’s you, we hope you’ll apply for this role.

You want to be part of a team.

You come with new ideas and a unique point of view. You look forward to collaborating with a diverse team of individuals. You assume everyone’s best intentions, welcome a healthy debate, and embrace differing opinions. You eagerly seek and give help. Transparency tops your list of values, and you proactively contribute to a culture of respect and inclusion.

You enjoy a challenge.

Inquisitive and focused, you see every challenge as an opportunity. You’re ambitious and comfortable making mistakes because you learn from them and bounce back quickly. You would rather create the future than wait for it. You prioritize long-term value over short-term objectives.

You love to listen.

You approach every interaction with curiosity and a desire to understand. You want to make a positive impact in the world. You’re passionate about culture and know the power that music, film, podcasts, games, and stories have to bring people together.

What You’ll Do Define and communicate a product vision and strategy to all layers of the organization and gain alignment across Sonos.

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. You’ll 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.

You’ll 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. You’re collaborative, not afraid of being wrong, and you have strong opinions, weakly held.

Skills You’ll Need 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 Bachelor’s 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 More About Sonos Sonos is a sound experience company. We pioneered multiroom wireless audio, made it sound amazing, and changed the way people listen, making it effortless for them to enjoy what they want, where they want, how they want.

Today we continue empowering listeners by developing new technologies, thoughtfully designing products, expanding our software platform, and crafting brilliant sound experiences while participating in a culture that values respect, transparency, collaboration, and ownership.

Together we’re working to positively impact the world and inspire everyone to listen better—because listening brings people together, builds understanding, drives change, and makes us happier.

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