Lead Data Product Owner Duration: 12 months Role Overview Oue client seeks a Senior Data Product Leader to establish and mature an enterprise Data Product capability. The role owns product vision, roadmap, stakeholder alignment, adoption, governance and value realisation for strategic reusable data products consumed across Vodacom markets. This is not a traditional BI, reporting or project delivery role.Key Responsibilities
Establish and lead a Data Product Ownership capability.
Own product vision, roadmap, prioritisation and lifecycle management.
Identify, define and launch reusable enterprise Data Products.
Drive business adoption and change management.
Facilitate prioritisation across competing executive stakeholders.
Translate business needs into product specifications for engineering teams using Spec-Driven Data Engineering principles.
Define KPIs, adoption metrics and value-realisation measures.
Partner with Data Engineering, Architecture, Governance and Analytics teams.
Own consumer trust, governance, quality and product performance.
Provide executive-level communication on outcomes, risks and recommendations.
10+ years in Data, Product, Analytics or Data Management environments.
5+ years in Data Product Ownership or Product Management roles.
Experience building or transforming data assets into Data Products.
Proven executive stakeholder management and influence.
Experience driving product adoption, organisational change and business value realisation.
Telco experience advantageous.
Executive communication
Stakeholder influence without authority
Conflict resolution and prioritisation
Strategic thinking
Commercial acumen
Collaboration across business and technical domains
Ability to bring structure to ambiguity
Understand strategy and stakeholders
Assess current data assets
Identify priority data products
Define governance model
Establish adoption measures
Deliver and socialise Data Product roadmap
Desired Skills:
Data products
Product ownership
Stakeholder management and influence