Senior Product Manager, Smart Data Products [gn] Europe

What You’ll Do

• Translate the CPTO's strategic vision into a concrete, scalable Data Product roadmap. You'll pair strong product instincts with data-informed decision making to deliver results. 

• Participate in the product lifecycle from discovery through launch, iteration, and adoption, including setting success metrics, prioritizing features, and ensuring high-quality execution. 

• Lead the full lifecycle of Data Products development, ensuring they are discoverable, trustworthy, and valuable within Actian's Data Intelligence Platform.

• Oversee the development of AI agents that control data products, enabling conversational and proactive interactions for end-users.

• Lead cross-functional squads in an agile environment, collaborating with Engineering, Design, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success to ensure high-velocity and high-quality releases.

• Champion the use of AI product development tooling to accelerate delivery and optimize product features.

• Partner with Go-to-Market teams to position our Data Products value proposition, shape product messaging, and drive adoption among technical and executive audiences.

• Navigate the complexity of corporate environments while maintaining the agility of a startup, managing expectations from C-level executives to end-users and clients.

Who You Are

• 5+ years in Software Product Management, with specific focus on Data Products, Data Platforms, or AI/ML products.

• Experience working as a product manager on open source technologies.

• You have "survived and thrived" in both fast-paced startup environments and complex corporate structures. You know how to pivot quickly but also how to navigate decision-making processes in larger organizations.

• Deep understanding of Data Governance, Data Catalogs, and the modern data stack.

• Ability to debate strategic inputs and then dive into the concrete inputs for engineering at ground level.

• Skilled at translating customer and stakeholder needs into innovative product features.

• Track record of shipping enterprise-grade SaaS features from ideation through scale.

• Able to balance short-term execution with long-term vision.

• Customer-driven and passionate about customer success.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or related field.

Preferred qualifications

• Prior work experience in the data management domain (e.g., data catalogs, databases, major CSPs, key data-oriented user personas and their use cases) is a plus.

• At least 1 year owning zero-to-one or early-stage product launches.

This role sits within the Data Intelligence Product Team. Here are values we live by:

• When the wind blows, build windmills not walls

• If it isn't ruthless, it isn't prioritization

• Do better, do faster