Technical Product Owner, Data

This position is based in the Charlotte, NC area with a hybrid work schedule of three days per week in office (Tues, Wed, Thurs). Candidates must be located in the Charlotte area or willing to relocate to be considered for this position.

The Technical Product Owner for the Business Intelligence and Reporting Team is responsible for delivering clear technical requirements to data engineers and analysts. The ideal candidate excels in communication, negotiates prioritization conflicts effectively, and drives discussions on scalable data products. Data is key to decision-making at LendingTree, and the BI and Reporting team relies on the TPO to align business stakeholders and delivery teams while focusing on scalable, modern architectures.  The ideal candidate can juggle managing multiple stakeholders, get technical and non-technical people on the same page, and can effectively judge when to fight for getting things done “right” versus getting things done “right now.” 

Key Responsibilities 

Product Ownership and Stakeholder Management 

• Define the short-and long-term roadmap for BI and Reporting capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives. 

• Prioritize the delivery of various Data Products and enhancements based on business impact and technical feasibility aligning with company strategy. 

• Act as the primary liaison between data engineering, analytics and business stakeholders in marketing, sales and product to translate business requirements into a set of clear requirements. 

• Report back to stakeholders on key milestones and deliverables for the BI and Reporting team. 

• Drive discussions with stakeholders towards finding solutions that have clear outcomes. 

• Drive adoption of data products; maintain documentation and work with teams to build training materials to ensure business users derive the most value from our data products possible. 

Technical Expertise: 

• Clearly define and communicate acceptance criteria for on requests and translate in a way that technical teams can understand. 

• Clearly define the scope, granularity and use cases for our data products. 

• Participate in data modeling exercises; ensure that data models support the short- and long-term needs of the business and are future-proof. 

• Collaborate with other tech teams to map out technical dependencies for projects, drawing clear lines of ownership and setting expectations with the business. 

• Contribute to architecture discussions and advocate for best practices and standards. 

• Create and document service level agreements (SLAs) between business and data, as needed for data availability and timeliness. 

• Supervise post-deployment validations and ensure smooth transitions to production. 

Qualifications 

Experience: 

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Manager, with a focus on analytics, business intelligence or reporting. 

• Hands-on experience with Cloud Data Warehouses such as Snowflake. 

• Experience working with or in data warehouses; familiar with modeling concepts like star schemas, normalization, facts and dimensions. 

• Demonstrated experience working in Agile/Scrum environments, managing backlogs and sprint cycles. 

• Hands-on experience with BI and reporting tools such as Tableau, Power BI 

Skills: 

• Very proficient in writing SQL queries in relational databases. 

• Working knowledge of ETL concepts. 

• Maintaining documentation in a collaborative environment. 

• Proven ability to rally cross-functional teams and effectively manage stakeholder expectations. 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills for presenting complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences. 

• Strong analytical skills with experience in interpreting data and building reports 

• Ability to dive into technical details, including data architecture, ETL processes, and API integrations. 

COMPANY 

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders so they make their best financial choices. 

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more. 

What else you should know:  

• We’re a publicly traded company (TREE). 

• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices. 

• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.   

CULTURE 

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bent. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear and we’re pretty good at rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). Come work with us! 

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion, we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status. 

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