Data Products Program Lead (Data Products/MDM)

Location: Full-time onsite work five days per week in Victor, NY, United States; San Ramon, CA is also listed as a location. Less than 20% travel, including occasional travel to the UK and Victor, NY. No relocation assistance.

Salary: $121,223–$161,630 per year in Victor, NY; $151,529–$202,038 per year in San Ramon, CA.

Company

CooperVision, a CooperCompanies business unit, manufactures contact lenses and develops products addressing vision challenges.

What you will do

• Lead the EDU data products program from definition through release, versioning, consumer onboarding, adoption, and transition to business-as-usual ownership.
• Translate quarterly milestones into releases with scope, deliverables, acceptance criteria, KPIs, dependencies, and recovery plans.
• Maintain the integrated program plan, risks, budget, dependencies, steering-group materials, decisions, and Global PMO reporting.
• Coordinate business and system SMEs across four transactional-layer domains and IT, resolving semantic conflicts through the semantic council.
• Ensure data products have named owners, registered consumers, DATSIS, release notes, catalogue entries, and governed semantic definitions.
• Build operating-model evidence covering intake, standards, stewardship, decision rights, release processes, lessons learned, and adoption metrics.

Requirements

• 8+ years of program or technical program management experience, including at least 3 years leading enterprise data, MDM, or data-platform programs.
• Experience standing up a data product or data governance program from the start, including product definitions, ownership, intake, release processes, and delivery.
• Experience delivering large cross-functional initiatives with dependencies on other programs and IT platform work.
• Experience transitioning or consolidating master and transactional data, such as CRM or ERP migrations, MDM implementations, or registry builds.
• Experience working with data and system architects on logical and semantic design and with data science teams consuming the output.
• Experience driving adoption of data products or operating models through readiness and communication planning.
• Experience setting, measuring, and reporting program KPIs under a corporate PMO framework.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Management, Business, or a related discipline.
• Working knowledge of transaction layers, master data, identity registries, integration and pipelines, physical, logical and semantic layers, and data catalogues.
• Ability to read, build on, and challenge data models, semantic definitions, and datasets; comfortable using SQL against a cloud data platform.
• Understanding of governed and certified data products, including ownership, consumers, DATSIS, lineage, quality thresholds, and release versioning.
• Strong program discipline, facilitation, workshop leadership, stakeholder management, executive communication, strategic thinking, and independent execution.
• Applicants must be permanently authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Medical device, life sciences, or regulated-industry experience, including exposure to product and customer data domains.
• Graduate degree in a quantitative or data discipline.
• PMP, PgMP, Agile, or Scrum certification.
• Hands-on familiarity with Snowflake, Informatica or CDM, and Collibra.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time contract-to-hire position with onsite office work and extended computer-based work.
• Work involves collaboration with business domains, IT, regional data and BI leads, external partners, assessment facilitators, analyst firms, and platform vendors.
• Company values include being dedicated, innovative, friendly, collaborative, and doing the right thing.
• The role may include additional compensation and benefits beyond base pay.