Product Data Manager

Data Product Owner Location: Cleveland, OH (Hybrid) Structure: 6-month Contract-to-Hire Pay: $60-80/hr (pay dependent on experience) About the Client Our client is a global leader in the development, manufacture, distribution, and sale of paints, coatings, and related products. Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, the company serves professional, industrial, commercial, and retail customers around the world, delivering trusted products and innovative solutions that help customers protect and beautify what matters most. About the Role The Data Product Owner plays a critical role in advancing our client’s data product capabilities, establishing best practices, and driving consistency across the team. In addition to delivering against key initiatives, this individual is expected to elevate the overall maturity of data product ownership by introducing structure, reusable frameworks, and scalable ways of working. A primary focus for this role is leading the Product360 initiative — consolidating product data from multiple source systems into a unified, governed data product that can be leveraged across customer-facing applications and enterprise use cases. The role partners closely with data engineering, analytics, and business stakeholders to translate business needs into clearly defined requirements and to drive adoption and measurable value from data products. Job Description – Duties & Responsibilities • Defines and manages data product strategy, roadmap, and backlog. • Leads the Product360 initiative, including consolidating product data from disparate systems, creating a centralized and trusted product data source, and enabling downstream federation of product data to customer-facing applications and use cases. • Establishes and promotes data product management best practices across the team. • Creates standardized templates, frameworks, and playbooks (e.g., roadmaps, user stories, intake processes, prioritization models). • Recommends and helps implement tooling to support scalable product management and data collaboration across teams. • Translates business needs into clearly defined data requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria. • Partners with data engineering teams to deliver scalable and reliable solutions, analytics teams to enable reporting and insights, and business stakeholders to ensure alignment with enterprise priorities. • Drives value realization and adoption of data products. • Defines and tracks KPIs and success metrics. • Supports data governance, quality, and lifecycle management. • Facilitates effective communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders. Experience, Skills and Abilities Needed Required: • 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, data product management, or related roles. • Proven ability to apply product management best practices within data-focused initiatives. • Experience establishing processes, standards, and reusable frameworks across teams. • Strong understanding of the data product lifecycle. • Experience working in Agile / Scrum environments. • Hands-on experience collaborating with data engineering teams as well as analytics and business stakeholders. • Strong ability to translate business requirements into data solutions. • Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills. Preferred: • Experience in manufacturing, retail, or consumer goods industries. • Understanding of paint, coatings, or related product lines (highly desirable). • Experience with Product360 or similar product master data / PIM initiatives. • Knowledge of product ontology design and data modeling concepts. • Experience with Databricks and modern data platforms. • Exposure to tools supporting product management, data governance, or data cataloging. • Experience with enterprise data ecosystems (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, Power BI). Other: • Strong product mindset focused on delivering measurable business value. • Ability to scale practices across a team, not just execute individually. • Structured thinker with the ability to bring clarity to complex problems. • Strong facilitation and influencing skills across diverse stakeholder groups. • Proactive, self-starter with a bias for action and continuous improvement. About Us: At Brooksource, relationships are the foundation of everything we do. Since 2000, we’ve built lasting partnerships with clients, consultants, and internal teams to deliver an exceptional experience across every engagement. As a trusted IT and Engineering services provider, Brooksource supports Fortune 500 organizations through Experience-Driven Staffing, Professional Services, and Elevate, our proprietary Workforce Transformation program. Whether you’re hiring for software development, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data analytics, or enterprise IT, our customized staffing solutions are designed to align with your company’s unique goals, culture, and technology stack. We offer flexible hiring models, including contract, contract-to-hire, and direct placement to meet your evolving business needs. We are a certified partner of leading platforms, including Salesforce, AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud, enabling us to deliver scalable, end-to-end technology solutions. With a growing national footprint, Brooksource is redefining expectations in IT consulting, engineering services, and technology workforce solutions. EEO Statement: Brooksource is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), gender identity or genderexpression, sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, physical or mental disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and ordinances. Benefits & Perks: Brooksource offers competitive medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Dependent Care FSA, and supplemental coverage with plans that can fit each employee’s needs. We offer a 401k plan that includes a company match and is fully vested after you become eligible, paid time off, sick time, and paid company holidays. We also offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) that provides services like virtual counseling, financial services, legal services, life coaching, etc. Pay Disclaimer: The pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.