Senior Director, Product Management, Data Platforms & Analytics

Role Overview

Senior Director, Product Management - Data Platforms & Analytics provides strategic and operational leadership for an enterprise scale data platform portfolio, encompassing cloud data infrastructure, analytics, AI/ML enabled capabilities, and foundational services consumed by downstream applications and business domains. This role is accountable for defining and executing platform strategy, establishing strong product governance, and ensuring that data and analytics platforms and products deliver measurable business value, scalability, and reuse. The Senior Director operates as an executive partner across technology, data, analytics, finance, and business leadership, with direct accountability for executive communications and management of annual capital investments.

Responsibilities

• Data Platform Strategy & Product Leadership - Define and own the strategy for enterprise data and analytics platforms, including data ingestion, storage, semantic layers, analytics, and AI enablement; oversee product strategy and delivery of end user analytics and data review products across the RDS organization; translate enterprise strategy into a multi year roadmap aligned to business priorities and regulatory requirements; ensure platform capabilities are designed for scalability, performance, security, and reuse.
• Executive Communication & Stakeholder Leadership - Serve as senior product voice with executive leadership, articulating strategy, trade offs, risks, and business impact; develop executive ready communications including investment proposals, quarterly roadmap reviews, platform health dashboards, and value realization summaries; partner with engineering, architecture, data governance, analytics, finance, and business leaders to align priorities and drive decision making in a matrixed environment.
• Financial & Investment Management - Own and govern a £10M+ capital investment budget across data platform initiatives and products; build and defend business cases for major platform investments; track financial performance, ROI, benefits realization, and product adoption metrics to ensure investments deliver measurable value.
• Platform and Product Portfolio Delivery & Value Enablement - Partner with engineering, architecture, and delivery leaders to ensure platform and product roadmaps are executable and aligned with enterprise standards; enable downstream product teams by delivering stable, well documented, and consumable platform capabilities that accelerate product delivery and analytics adoption.
• People Leadership & Talent Development - Build, lead, and retain high performing data platform product management teams; coach and develop senior product leaders, fostering skills in platform thinking, financial acumen, and executive communication; promote a culture of accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and employee engagement.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data, Life Sciences, or a related field; advanced degree (MBA, MS, PhD) preferred.
• 10+ years of relevant experience with senior leadership in product management focused on data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products.
• Extensive experience leading enterprise data platforms, analytics platforms, or foundational technology products at senior level and operating in complex, large scale, and regulated environments.
• Proven experience owning and governing large capital investment portfolios and influencing enterprise level decisions.

Critical Skills & Capabilities

• Product Management - Proven track record of defining vision, owning end to end product strategy, and delivering measurable business impact.
• Data & Platform Expertise - Deep understanding of modern data platform architectures (cloud, analytics, semantic layers, AI/ML enablement, integration patterns).
• Executive Communication & Influence - Ability to clearly explain complex data platform concepts to non technical leaders and drive alignment across senior stakeholders.
• Financial & Strategic Leadership - Capital planning, investment governance, and value realization; prioritize competing initiatives across modernization, innovation, and cost efficiency.
• Leadership & Collaboration - Build trust across product, engineering, architecture, analytics, and business teams; navigate ambiguity, lead through change, and drive clarity at scale.

This role is not eligible for UK visa sponsorship.