Senior Technical Product Manager, Data Platforms

What You'll Do

Full product lifecycle ownership: Own the product vision and strategy of Vanguard’s data platforms from incubation to sunset, in alignment with Vanguard’s enterprise data strategy and target state architecture.

Customer-centric product ideation:

• Monitor market trends and conduct user research to identify opportunities that will define data platform products and product features

• Collaborate across divisions with our users (e.g., data engineers, architects, analysts, data scientists) to define data products that meet their critical data and business needs

• Foster a culture of experimentation through MVPs, rapid prototyping, and iterative development, encouraging bold thinking while maintaining a strong bias for execution and learning.

• Translate insights into actionable and prioritized product features

Product delivery through innovation, experimentation, and continuous improvement

• Develop and maintain a transparent, outcomes-based roadmap and backlog, partnering and aligning with key stakeholders, including architecture and engineering functions under the CTO, to sequence capabilities based on business priorities and technical feasibility

• Collaborate with data architecture and engineering teams to co-create the right features, often leading technical discussions with a deep understanding of data platforms and technologies (e.g., AWS, Databricks, Snowflake, integration patterns)

• Conduct usability testing and experimentation to ensure platform features meet user needs

• Manage product launches, coordinating with project managers for on-time and on-budget releases

• Define and monitor key product metrics and analyze product performance to continually improve and drive value, inform roadmap and investment decisions, and measure success

Funding and P&L

• Partner with finance and engineering leadership to allocate budgets across the product portfolio

• Use >Special Factors

  Sponsorship

  Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

  About Vanguard

  At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

  To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

  How We Work

  Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.