The Product Owner (PO) within Krolls Chief Data Office (CDO) is accountable for the endtoend ownership, delivery, and adoption of enterprise data products. This role serves as the single point of accountability for product vision, stakeholder alignment, roadmap execution, and experience quality across assigned data domains.

The Product Owner partners closely with Business stakeholders, Data Engineering, BI/Reporting, Data Science, Governance, and Platform teams to ensure data products are reliable, intuitive, scalable, and aligned with Krolls strategic priorities. The role emphasizes clarity of ownership, predictable delivery, and measurable business impact in a complex, enterprise data environment.

Key Responsibilities

Product Ownership & Accountability

- Define and own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for enterprise data, analytics, or AI product areas.

- Serve as the single point of accountability for product outcomes, delivery health, and user experience.

- Define and communicate product goals, success metrics, and value drivers to stakeholders and delivery teams.

- Ensure products operate with clear ownership, release discipline, and lifecycle management, behaving like true productsnot oneoff projects.

Stakeholder Engagement & Business Alignment

- Act as the primary interface between the CDO and business, finance, and functional leaders for assigned domains.

- Partner with stakeholders to prioritize demand, manage tradeoffs, and align delivery to business timelines.

- Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements without compromising data integrity or architectural standards.

- Establish and maintain trusted relationships that enable fast decisionmaking and alignment.

Backlog,



Roadmap & Delivery Management

- Own and maintain a prioritized, welldefined backlog with clear acceptance criteria and readiness standards.

- Work with Program Managers, Scrum Masters, and delivery teams to plan releases and manage dependencies.

- Balance shortterm delivery needs with longterm product health, scalability, and maintainability.

- Surface risks, constraints, or scope tradeoffs early to enable leadership decisions.

Governance, Quality & Standards

- Partner with Data Governance, Data Stewards, and Platform Owners to ensure:

- Consistent KPI definitions and metric logic

- Data quality, lineage, and trust standards

- Alignment with enterprise data architecture and security policies

- Ensure products meet operational readiness standards prior to release and are supported postlaunch.

Adoption, Value & Continuous Improvement

- Drive product adoption by ensuring solutions is intuitive, reliable, and aligned to real user workflows.

- Define and track usage, adoption, and value realization metrics.

- Collect feedback and iterate to continuously improve product experience and impact.

- Support leadership by providing a clear narrative on what is delivered, what value it creates, and what comes next.

Qualifications & Experience

Required

- 5+ years of experience in Product Ownership,



Business Analysis, Analytics, or Datacentric roles.

- Proven ability to own roadmaps, backlogs, and stakeholder relationships in a complex enterprise environment.

- Robust understanding of data, reporting, analytics, or BI platforms (e.g., Power BI, Databricks, data warehouses).

- Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery models with engineering and analytics teams.

- Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to translate between business objectives and technical execution.

Preferred

- Experience in a Chief Data Office, Analytics, or Enterprise Reporting organization.

- Familiarity with data governance, semantic models, KPI standardization, and selfservice analytics.

- Experience supporting finance, operations, or enterprisewide reporting domains.

- Prior experience working in a vendorheavy environment and helping transition to more internal ownership.

Leadership Behaviors & Expectations

- Operates with clear ownership and accountability.

- Brings structure, clarity, and discipline to ambiguous problem spaces.

- Makes tradeoffs explicitly and escalates decisions appropriately.

- Focuses on outcomes and value, not just delivery.

- Trusted partner to both business leaders and technical teams.

Why This Role Matters

The Product Owner is a critical enabler of CDOs productled operating model, ensuring that data and analytics investments deliver consistent, trusted, and measurable value to the firmwhile reducing dependency on informal workarounds, fragmented ownership, and vendordriven execution.

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