Sr Manager, Data Product Management

Are you ready to take your career to new heights and be a part of a dynamic team at Rogers Sports & Media? We believe in creativity, innovation, and collaboration in everything we do, and we are looking for people who share this mindset to join us. With a monthly reach of 30 million Canadians, you can help shape the future of sports, news, e-commerce, and entertainment. At Rogers, we value diversity and inclusivity and believe that every voice matters. Join us today and be a part of a team that is redefining the future of media.

Senior Manager, Data Product Management

Who we're looking for:

Rogers Sports & Media (RSM) is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy, roadmap and delivery of Media Data Platforms and Products that support advertising, audience insights, and customer subscription lifecycle initiatives across the business. Working across Sales, Marketing,Product,Data Science, Engineering, Architecture and Technology teams, you willidentifybusiness opportunities, prioritize strategicinvestmentsand deliver scalable data capabilities that improve business outcomes.

This role combines people leadership, product management, commercial strategy and technology leadership to modernize RSM’s data ecosystem while supporting long-term business growth.

What you'll do:

• Define and maintain the product roadmap for Media Data Platforms and Products supporting Advanced Advertising and Direct-to-Consumer subscription businesses.
• Develop long-term platform strategies aligned with RSM’s business priorities and partner with Enterprise Architecture to define future-state platform capabilities.
• Lead cross-functional planning for complex initiatives, coordinating dependencies across multiple products, engineering teams, vendors and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of strategic programs.
• Develop business cases supporting strategic platform investments and modernization initiatives. Define product KPIs and measure adoption, business value and platform health.

Media Data Products

• Lead the strategy and evolution of products supporting:
• Reporting & Insights: PowerBI & DOMO
• Martech: Adobe Experience Platform (AEP) or other Customer Data Platforms (CDP)
• Adtech: Identity graph, audience segmentation, attribution measurement
• Direct-to-Consumer: customer lifecycle management (acquisition, churn, customer lifetime value analytics)
• Data Science: feature stores, ML operations

Platform Strategy & Technology

• Partner withEnterprise Datato evolveRSM’sdata platform and technology ecosystem.
• Responsibilities include aligning with stakeholders across a hybrid-cloud ecosystem including: Microsoft Azure, Databricks, Snowflake, and on-premises, while ensuring best practices for data quality, governance, and finops.

Business Planning & Financial Management

• Develop product roadmaps aligned withRSM’sstrategy.Develop business cases and ROI analyses.
• Prepare CAPEX and OPEX plans supporting strategic platform investments.
• Partner with Procurement on vendor selection, contract renewals, and strategic technology planning.

Team Leadership

• Lead and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for Media Data Platforms and Products.
• Recruit, mentor and develop Product Managers, fostering a high-performing product organization. Coach Product Managers on product strategy, roadmap development, prioritization, stakeholder management and product execution.
• Establish product management best practices, governance and operating models across RSM’s data portfolio.
• Align priorities across multiple product teams to ensure consistent execution against Media business objectives.

What you'll bring:

• 8+ years of experience in Product Management, Data Platforms, or related technology leadership roles.
• Experience leading enterprise-scale data products or platform initiatives.
• Experience leading, mentoring and developing Product Managers.
• Strong understanding of modern cloud data platforms including Azure, Databricks or comparable technologies.
• Experience developing strategic product roadmaps and technology investment plans.
• Experience building business cases, strong stakeholder management, and executive communication.
• Experience evaluating enterprise technology platforms and working with strategic technology vendors.
• Cloud experience
• Databricks, Azure, Azure Data factory.
• Ability to work with on prem infrastructure
• Familiar with data engineering
• Data Governance (data classification & PII)
• Data Architecture
• Ingestion/Transformation
• Media specific platform product management

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