Staff, Data Platform Product Manager

We need a super sharp Staff, Data Platform Product Manager to head up our Data Platform and Data Architecture. You'll be the one shaping the vision, strategy, and roadmap, and getting it all delivered. Think of our internal data capabilities as your product – you'll be making sure our data engineers, data scientists, analysts, and business users can really make the most of our data.

The perfect person for this role gets the ins and outs of today's data world and can push for platform-level innovation that helps everyone across the business use data effectively. This is a big deal role where you'll build a data foundation that's scalable, reliable, secure, and fast, helping us make smart, data-driven decisions and innovate like crazy.

Note: As a global company with employees and clients outside of Quebec, fluency in English as a working language is required for this position.

Role: 

• Define & Evangelize Vision: Develop and articulate a compelling long-term vision and strategy for the data platform and architecture, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives and future growth.
• Strategic Roadmap & Prioritization: Create and maintain a clear, prioritized product roadmap for platform features, infrastructure enhancements, and architectural initiatives, balancing immediate needs with long-term strategic goals.
• Internal Customer Empathy: Deeply understand the needs, pain points, and workflows of our internal data consumers (data engineers, analytics engineers, data scientists, data analysts, our teams) to inform platform development.
• Requirements Definition: Translate complex technical and business requirements into clear, actionable product specifications, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering teams.
• Architectural Leadership: Partner closely with data architects and engineering leads to design and evolve our data architecture, incorporating best practices like Medallion Architecture and foundational concepts like Data Contracts, ensuring scalability, security, and reliability.
• Technology Evaluation & Innovation: Stay abreast of industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data platforms, data warehousing, data lakes, and data architecture to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.
• Performance & Cost Optimization: Drive initiatives to continuously optimize the performance, cost-efficiency, and scalability of the data platform, ensuring it meets evolving demands.
• Stakeholder Communication: Effectively communicate platform strategy, progress, and value to a wide range of technical and non-technical stakeholders across the organization.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in product management, with 2+ years focused on data platforms, infrastructure, or analytics products.
• Strong understanding of modern data architecture concepts (e.g., data lakes, warehouses, lakehouses, streaming, ETL/ELT, etc.).
• Ability to bridge business goals with technical requirements and communicate clearly to both audiences.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Experience with data governance, quality frameworks, and compliance practices.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Passion for data and a desire to drive innovation.
• Knowledge of cloud-based data platforms (e.g., GCP, AWS, Azure).

What's in it for you: 

• Join a growing team and help us move to the next level
• Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders
• Constant development of both your skill-set and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities
• Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture
• Innovation time to explore and learn at work
• Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees
• Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
• Opportunity to join a fast-paced, high-growth company
• Opportunity to learn, expand your skill set, forge wonderful relationships and make your mark within the diverse and inclusive Lightspeed family, a true Canadian tech success story

….  And enjoy a range of benefits that will keep you happy, healthy and (not) hungry.

• Lightspeed equity scheme (we are all owners).
• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
• Health insurance.
• Contributions to your pension plan - RRSP.
• Health and wellness benefit of $500 per year.
• Paid leave and assistance for new parents.
• Mental health online platform and counseling & coaching services.
• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career
• Volunteer day.
• Fully stacked kitchen (hot and cold beverages, meals served) 
• Happy hours to build your relationships with colleagues after work 

To all recruitment agencies: Lightspeed does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. If we have not directly engaged your company in writing to supply candidates for a specific vacancy, Lightspeed will not be responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

Lightspeed is a proud equal opportunity employer and we are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier-free workplace. Lightspeed welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Where to from here?
Obviously, this has to be mutually beneficial: we want you to step into a role you love, and we want to offer you a place you're proud to come to every day. For a glimpse into our world check out our career page here.

Lightspeed is building communities through commerce, and we need people from all backgrounds and lived experiences to do that. We were founded in 2005, in Montreal's gay village and our original members were all part of the LGBTQ+ community. The ethos of our business has been about inclusion from the very beginning, and we strive to provide a workplace where everyone belongs.

Who we are:
Powering the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy, Lightspeed's one-stop commerce platform helps merchants innovate to simplify, scale, and provide exceptional customer experiences. Our cloud commerce solution transforms and unifies online and physical operations, multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions, and connection to supplier networks.

Founded in Montréal, Canada in 2005, Lightspeed is dual-listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: LSPD) and Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: LSPD). With teams across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the company serves retail, hospitality, and golf businesses in over 100 countries.

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