What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager position at Burtch Works?
Job Title: Product Manager
Location: Santa Monica, CA; Seattle, WA; or San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
About The Company
We are a leading entertainment company committed to building world-class digital experiences across all platforms. Our organization is dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional user experiences that connect audiences with the content they love. We foster a culture of curiosity, excellence, and strategic thinking where talented professionals can thrive and make a meaningful impact.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Product Manager to drive the development and optimization of data platform infrastructure tools and services. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands the needs of data engineers and analysts, and can translate technical requirements into scalable product solutions.
Key Responsibilities
Location: Santa Monica, CA; Seattle, WA; or San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)
About The Company
We are a leading entertainment company committed to building world-class digital experiences across all platforms. Our organization is dedicated to innovation, collaboration, and delivering exceptional user experiences that connect audiences with the content they love. We foster a culture of curiosity, excellence, and strategic thinking where talented professionals can thrive and make a meaningful impact.
Job Summary
We are seeking a Product Manager to drive the development and optimization of data platform infrastructure tools and services. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced environment, understands the needs of data engineers and analysts, and can translate technical requirements into scalable product solutions.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and prioritize product requirements : Develop comprehensive product requirements for data platform tools used across engineering and analytics teams, ensuring alignment with business objectives and technical feasibility.
- Cross-functional collaboration : Work closely with data engineering, infrastructure, analytics, and data science teams to balance platform management requirements against diverse user needs and technical constraints.
- Requirements synthesis : Capture inputs and use cases from disparate users and teams and distill them into a single set of manageable and executable requirements for Data Contracts enablement and enforcement.
- Product roadmap management : Oversee the product roadmap and backlog, ensuring timely delivery of features and improvements while maintaining strategic alignment with company goals.
- User research and feedback : Conduct comprehensive user research and gather continuous feedback to improve platform service performance and user experience.
- Performance monitoring : Monitor KPIs and usage metrics to inform data-driven product decisions and demonstrate measurable impact on platform adoption and efficiency.
- Execution leadership : Drive day-to-day execution of product vision through sprint planning, standups, and retrospectives with engineering partners, ensuring smooth delivery cycles.
- Education : Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent experience
- Experience : 3-5 years of product management experience, ideally in data platforms or developer tools
- Skills :
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Strong understanding of data infrastructure, ETL pipelines, and cloud data platform technologies (Snowflake, Databricks)
- Experience working with agile teams and managing product backlogs
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities
- Other : Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and translate technical requirements into scalable solutions
- Familiarity with modern data formats and concepts like Delta Lake and Apache Iceberg
- Familiarity with cloud platform architectures like AWS
- Comfort with turning ambiguity and competing requirements into a clear, specific, prioritized vision
- Experience with data governance, privacy, and compliance frameworks
- Background in software engineering or data science is a plus