Executive Product Manager – Enterprise Data Platform (Contract)

Rate: £650 per day (Inside IR35)
Location: UK-based 2 Days on site a month
Contract: Long-term engagement
Sector: Large-scale digital / data platforms

The Opportunity

We are supporting a major organisation undergoing a significant transformation of its enterprise data platform. This platform underpins analytics, personalisation, experimentation, and real-time insights across multiple high-traffic digital products.

The programme focuses on modernising data ingestion, streaming, and real-time processing capabilities to deliver reliable, scalable data at enterprise scale.

This role sits at executive level and offers genuine ownership over strategy, roadmap, and delivery for a critical data platform used across the organisation.

The Role

As Executive Product Manager, you will lead the product management function for the Enterprise Data Platform. You will define the long-term vision, align multiple product squads, and partner closely with senior engineering and data leaders to ensure the platform delivers measurable value.

This is a hands-on, high-agency role suited to someone comfortable operating in complex, ambiguous environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver the vision and roadmap for an enterprise-scale data platform

• Lead and coach a team of Product Managers aligned to shared outcomes

• Partner with engineering leadership to ensure scalability, reliability, security, and cost efficiency

• Translate organisational needs into clear product outcomes across:

  • Analytics

  • Personalisation

  • Experimentation

  • Data transformation

• Drive adoption and usability of the platform across internal teams

• Ensure strong standards around data quality, governance, and security

• Bring external best practices and modern product thinking into the platform strategy

Essential Experience

• Senior product management experience across complex technical or platform products

• Proven ability to lead, coach, or line-manage Product Managers

• Strong background delivering data platforms or highly technical products

• Comfortable making decisions in ambiguous, fast-moving environments

• Strong technical literacy across:

  • Modern data platforms

  • Event-driven architectures

  • Streaming data pipelines

• Outcome-focused mindset with experience defining and measuring impact

• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills

Desirable Experience

• Agile and iterative product delivery environments

• Data governance and compliance in large or complex organisations

• Experience working within empowered, cross-functional product teams

• Familiarity with prioritisation frameworks (Impact vs Effort, ICE, Kano, etc.)

• Exposure to data platform modernisation programmes

• Cloud experience (AWS, GCP, or Azure)

• Experience working closely with cloud provider engineering teams

• Background in organisations with strong product cultures