About The Role

As an Associate Product Manager (Data), you will support the delivery of customer-facing data products. Working closely with Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams, you will support product execution, data platform operations, governance, and launches to ensure Lightcast data is reliable, compliant, and easy for customers to access and use. This early-career role is designed for someone looking to build technical product management expertise and grow into increased ownership over time.

Major Responsibilities

Build an understanding of customer use cases, Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and how customers consume and share data
Support backlog management by translating requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria and helping engineering teams deliver against roadmap commitments
Support data contracts, including schemas, versioning, deprecation processes, and customer migration paths
Monitor data quality, including freshness, null values, and duplicates, and help resolve issues that impact reliability
Support product launches through changelogs, migration notes, documentation, internal enablement, incident triage, and root cause analysis (RCA)
Support product launches by contributing to changelogs, migration notes, documentation, and internal enablement
Help monitor data quality and flag issues with freshness, null values, and duplicates, ensuring high standards of customer reliability and trust.

Education and Experience

1–2 years of experience in product, data, analytics, or a related field
Exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, including sharing models, permissions, or listings
SQL and modern data concepts
Familiarity with data quality, governance, and security concepts
Experience with agile methodologies, backlog management, and roadmap execution
Strong technical writing skills, including experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams
Interest in building reliable, user-friendly data products and developing technical product management expertise