Principal Product Manager, Data Products

Company: Norwest Venture Partners
Location: Palo Alto
Posted on: April 17, 2025

Job Description:

About Velocity GlobalVelocity Global gives you the power to build your team everywhere-combining seamless technology and local expertise in 185+ countries. We make it simple to compliantly hire, pay, and manage talent anywhere. With Velocity Global, the world is yours.Job DescriptionVelocity Global offers the most unified, tech-enabled, and customer service-driven global workforce management, ensuring smooth, reliable operations across countries, roles, and workforce types so businesses can navigate complexity with confidence, deliver strong results, and stay ahead. We help you expand your business into new markets without the complexity of setting up entities. We hire, pay, and manage your workforce across 185+ countries with our AI-powered global Workforce Technology platform.We are looking for a creative, customer-focused Principal Product Manager to lead the Data platform and product area at Velocity Global. Currently, customers use our platform to manage their global employee payroll and benefits. That's just a start and we have aggressive goals and plans.As a Principal Product Manager, you will shape a data platform to lead AI-powered solutions to transform customer engagement and propel our phase of growth. You will collaborate with designers, engineers, GTM teams, and the executive leadership to build a modern Data platform with AI capabilities to accelerate growth and lead to market leadership. As Product Leader, you will create the strategy, manage the roadmap, and build on the product backlog, work with cross-functional teams to develop exceptional data and analytics products for our customers.This is a hybrid position based in Palo Alto, California, and in-office collaboration is required for at least 1-3 days per week. You will be an individual contributor reporting to the VP Product.You Will

• Strategy: Work with cross functional teams to develop vision and strategy for the Data platform, data quality and governance to accomplish effective outcomes across all functions.
• Ownership: Align with strategy for multiple teams and create and drive a portfolio of cross-functional initiatives to achieve core elements of the data strategy.
• Definition: Clearly articulate the business problems about data, gather evidence from users and outside sources, clarify the potential solutions with assumptions, guiding principles, strategic connections.
• Roadmap: Define the roadmap with deep understanding of the underlying data architecture, and drive prioritization of functional and non-functional requirements.
• Delivery: Create user stories, and partner with data and product engineering teams to manage product backlog and execution through scrum teams.
• Communication: Serve as primary evangelist of data platform and capabilities with customers, internal executive stakeholders. Participate in industry events, customer briefings, analyst briefings, and advisory boards.
• Outcomes: Drive product and feature launches aligned with company goals and report key metrics.You have
  • 10+ years of Product Management experience.
  • Computer Science background or equivalent technical experience.
  • Experience building data platforms.
  • Experience leading initiatives across large engineering and cross functional teams, to influence roadmap planning and execution.
  • Hands-on experience in testing product before releasing and editing FAQ/documentation.
  • Experience communicating complex technical concepts to a variety of audiences, structuring ambiguous concepts and from first principles.
  • Startup experience, either in FinTech or HR tech preferably.
  • Experience taking a product from 0-1 or founded a startup is preferred.Our job titles may span more than one career level. The base pay depends upon many factors, such as training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, and market demands. The base pay range is subject to change and may be modified.Annualized Pay Range$176,000-$245,000 USD.We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusion across our organization, embracing the rich tapestry of cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives that our global team brings together in offices around the world. Velocity Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request.Velocity Global offers a range of benefits tailored to the location and type of role. A general benefits overview is below:
    • Health and Dental Insurance (where applicable).
    • Retirement Savings + Employee Incentive Plan.
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