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Daybright Financial · 4 hours ago

Director, Data Enablement Product Owner

Iselin, NJ

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$140K/yr - $160K/yr

8+ years exp

Daybright Financial is a leading provider of benefits and retirement plan solutions, committed to delivering exceptional service and innovative products to our clients. The Director, Data Enablement Product Owner will lead the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of data enablement and data warehouse services, ensuring alignment with business outcomes and driving growth and client retention.

Financial ServicesInsuranceRetirement

Hiring Manager

Juliette Robinson

Responsibilities

Define and communicate the vision for data enablement, aligning to business outcomes (time‑to‑insight, operational efficiency, advisor/client experience, compliance reporting). Maintain a transparent, prioritized roadmap that balances build and run work

Author well‑formed user stories with business value, acceptance criteria, and testable outcomes. Continuously refine and prioritize the backlog across data acquisition, consolidation, conformed dimensional models, data quality & governance, semantic models, and BI consumption

Lead Scrum meetings (story mapping, backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews/demos, retrospectives). Use flow metrics (cycle/lead time, throughput, WIP limits) to improve predictability and throughput

Engage and influence varied stakeholders —business segment leaders, plan operations, advisor services, client service, finance, compliance/risk, marketing, and external partners—driving clarity on outcomes, priorities, and trade‑offs. Facilitate decisions, manage dependencies, and navigate differing perspectives

Champion product thinking for data—define SLAs/SLOs for data freshness and quality, steward critical data elements, and ensure metadata, lineage, and governance enable trust and re‑use

Lead and scale a data governance framework from early-stage maturity to integration into key business and technical operations with a focus on core datapoints and processes critical to data enablement goals

Work daily with business and technology teams, balancing feature delivery with production stability, incident triage, defect remediation, and technical debt reduction

Understand cybersecurity, risk and compliance requirements to embed privacy, retention, and access controls; ensure data products meet regulatory expectations if needed (e.g., SEC/FINRA where applicable)

Drive measurable adoption of data products—enable training, documentation, and self‑service patterns; collect feedback; iterate based on usage analytics and stakeholder NPS/CSAT

Qualification

Product OwnershipData EnablementScrum MasteryStakeholder EngagementKanbanData GovernanceMetrics-driven Decision MakingServant LeadershipChange AgentConflict ResolutionEffective FacilitationCommunication SkillsTeam CollaborationAdaptabilityNegotiation Skills

Required

8+ years in Product Ownership, Product Management, Business Analysis, or adjacent roles delivering data/analytics products or platforms

Hands‑on experience running Scrum/Kanban with both delivery and support teams (feature development, production operations, incident/problem management)

Strong data enablement background: data consolidation from multiple sources (including post‑merger/acquisition), dimensional modeling, conformed dimensions, ETL/ELT, data quality rules, and governance (metadata, lineage)

Demonstrated success engaging diverse stakeholders and client/user personas within financial services, translating business needs into data products that are adopted and measurably valuable

Preferred

Familiarity with retirement planning (e.g., DC/DB recordkeeping, plan administration), benefits, and/or financial advisory operations (CRM, pipeline, service workflows)

Experience with modern data stacks (e.g., Microsoft Fabric / Azure Synapse / Dataverse), orchestration tools, and Power BI

Certifications: CSPO/PSPO, SAFe POPM, ScrumMaster (CSM/PSM)