Alkami
Lead Product Manager, Data Platform
US Remote · Principal · Full-time
Work authorization required$164k-$205kDetected 30 days ago
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About the role
- This is a U.S.-based, remote-first role.
- Why This Role This is a foundational role at Alkami.
- The salary range for this position is: $164,000-$205,000 Cool Things to Know Not Just Any Company: Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve a multi-year roadmap spanning data ingestion, data modeling, and the intelligence capabilities built on top of them.
- Drive a strong point of view on data governance, quality, lineage, definitions, and standards across both ingestion and modeling domains.
- Define and monitor the key business and platform metrics that measure success, and use those insights to continuously optimize delivery and value.
- Partner with the data ingestion engineering team to deliver scalable, cloud-native pipelines that onboard new data sources reliably, securely, and cost-effectively.
- Partner with the data cleansing, modeling, and insights engineering team to deliver curated, high-trust analytic models that power both internal analytics and external client experiences.
- Own and manage the backlog(s) for the teams you support: well-organized, prioritized, and aligned with the roadmap, with clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
- Lead product across two cross-functional Scrum teams (engineers, designers, QA, data scientists), driving alignment without owning the org chart.
- Partner with peer Product Managers across Alkami to ensure the data platform meets the needs of the products built on top of it and the strategic bets the company is making.
- Lead the Agile ceremonies relevant to your teams-sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint reviews, retrospectives-and help shape how product and engineering operate together at the platform layer.
- Collaborate with engineering leadership to define scope, sequencing, dependencies, and resourcing across both teams.
Requirements
- Technical & Domain Expertise
- Experience productizing client-facing data and analytics capabilities, including exposing curated and client-owned data sets through unified, analyst-friendly experiences.
- Experience launching and scaling platform or data products, ideally including a 0-1 offering brought from concept to general availability.
- Deep knowledge of Agile methodologies, including Scrum, and experience leading multiple Agile teams in parallel
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences-including executives and clients.
- Education & Experience
- Demonstrated experience operating at a lead or principal level: setting direction across multiple teams, influencing senior stakeholders, and owning outcomes at a platform or portfolio scope.
- Must be based in and authorized to work in the United States. This is a U.S.-based, remote-first role.
- Strong fluency in cloud-native data architectures: data lakes, data warehouses, lakehouse patterns, streaming and batch pipelines, and modern modeling approaches.
- Hands-on familiarity with AWS data services and the broader modern data stack
- able to engage credibly with engineers on architectural and trade-off conversations.
- Solid working understanding of machine learning productization-how models move from experimentation to production, and what it takes to build a durable intelligence layer on top of a data platform.
Nice to have
- Serve as the central product point of contact for Sales, Client Success, UX, Engineering, Data Science, and other Product teams that depend on the data platform.
- Mentor and uplevel other product managers and adjacent roles through example, coaching, and clear product craft.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field
- advanced degree a plus.
- 10+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time spent on data platforms, analytics products, or developer/internal platforms.
- Prior experience in fintech, digital banking, SaaS, or another regulated, data-intensive domain strongly preferred.
- Must be based in and authorized to work in the United States.
Compensation
- As of January 1, 2023, new states and locales have enacted pay equity laws that require more pay transparency by employers in the following states: California, Colorado (effective January 1, 2021), Connecticut, Maryland, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Rhode Island and Washington.
- $164,000-$205,000
Benefits
- This is a senior individual contributor role with influence and scope that extends across multiple engineering groups, multiple product surfaces, and a multi-year platform vision.
- Proven ability to influence without authority, build trust across organizations, and rally cross-functional teams around a shared platform vision.
Company info
- Alkami has an awesome diverse and inclusive environment.
- We have a FUN culture and offer great benefits, including remote-first environment, unlimited paid time off, 401(k) with employer match, and more.
- We are not looking for outside recruiting firms to help us in this search.
- Thank you for understanding.
Equal opportunity
- Alkami Technology is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Prohibits Discrimination and Harassment of Any Kind: Alkami is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment.
Visa & Work Authorization
- We cannot offer employment sponsorship at this time.
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