Director, Data Platform

Director, Product Management - Data PlatformLocation: Preferred hubs are San Mateo, CA or Nashville, TN or open to remoteThe RoleAsurion, the world’s leading connected device protection company, serving 300M+ customers, is looking for a hands-on Director of PM to own the strategy and roadmap for our Data Platform. You understand both sides: how data is produced and how it’s consumed. You know how to build the foundational infrastructure- data catalog, lineage, ingestion pipelines, access governance, and a self-service analytics layer- that turns raw data into a trusted, scalable asset. This is a high-visibility role with broad scope and the mandate to shape how the entire organization works with data.What You’ll Do Own the Data Platform roadmap: from ingestion and pipeline orchestration to data catalog, lineage tracking, access governance, and the self-service analytics layer.Define how teams onboard data to the platform, establishing contracts, SLAs, quality checks, and documentation standards that make data trustworthy at the source.Drive the self-service experience so analysts and data scientists can discover, access, and use data in tools like Databricks notebooks or Snowflake without filing tickets.Partner with engineering on architecture decisions: when to use streaming vs. batch, how to structure the lakehouse, what belongs in the warehouse vs. the lake.Align data engineering, analytics, data science, security, and business stakeholders around a shared platform vision.Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing team of data-fluent PMs.What You Bring 10+ years in product management, with a significant focus on data platform, infrastructure, or analytics products.Fluency with the modern data stack: Databricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, MLflow), Snowflake, Amazon EMR/Spark, and cloud-native data services on AWS or GCP.Experience building or evolving core platform capabilities: data catalog, metadata management, column-level lineage, pipeline orchestration (Airflow, dbt, or similar), RBAC, and data quality frameworks.Understands the producer/consumer dynamic, knows that a great platform is as much about how data gets in as how it gets used.Proven cross-functional leadership; strong communicator from the board room to the engineering standup.Customer-obsessed with a strong bias for outcomes over output.Nice to Have Experience standing up a data mesh or domain-oriented data ownership model.Familiarity with ML/AI workflows and feature stores that consume platform data.Background partnering with security and privacy teams on governance at scale.Why Asurion Build at scale: petabytes of data, real-time decisions, 300M+ customers.Greenfield platform scope inside a well-resourced, high-growth organization.Direct influence on how every team across the company discovers and uses data.Competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits, and a flexible hybrid work model.Asurion is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive environment for all employees.