Associate Product Manager (Data)

🇺🇸In-Person - Moscow, ID3w ago

Corporate Product Product Management Data Products Data Governance Product Operations Platform Management

Role Snapshot

Associate Product Manager (Data) supporting the delivery of customer-facing data products at Lightcast, a global labor market insights leader. This early-career role focuses on building technical product management expertise while ensuring data reliability, compliance, and accessibility.

Key Responsibilities: Support backlog management, data contracts, and product launches by translating customer requirements into user stories and documentation. Monitor data quality, support platform operations, and collaborate across Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams to ensure reliable and compliant data delivery.

Skills & Tools: Strong technical writing and communication skills with experience developing user stories and product documentation. Proficiency in SQL, modern data concepts, and familiarity with data quality, governance, and security practices; ability to collaborate effectively across cross-functional teams.

Qualifications: 1–2 years of experience in product, data, analytics, or a related field with exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery. Knowledge of agile methodologies, backlog management, and understanding of data sharing models and permissions.

Location: In-Person - Moscow, ID

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation for this role is $65,000 – $85,000/year based on title, seniority, and location.

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Job Description

As an Associate Product Manager (Data), you will support the delivery of customer-facing data products. Working closely with Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams, you will support product execution, data platform operations, governance, and launches to ensure Lightcast data is reliable, compliant, and easy for customers to access and use. This early-career role is designed for someone looking to build technical product management expertise and grow into increased ownership over time. Major Responsibilities::

Build an understanding of customer use cases, Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and how customers consume and share data

Support backlog management by translating requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria and helping engineering teams deliver against roadmap commitments

Support data contracts, including schemas, versioning, deprecation processes, and customer migration paths

Monitor data quality, including freshness, null values, and duplicates, and help resolve issues that impact reliability

Support product launches through changelogs, migration notes, documentation, internal enablement, incident triage, and root cause analysis (RCA)

Support product launches by contributing to changelogs, migration notes, documentation, and internal enablement

Help monitor data quality and flag issues with freshness, null values, and duplicates, ensuring high standards of customer reliability and trust.

Education and Experience::

1–2 years of experience in product, data, analytics, or a related field

Exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, including sharing models, permissions, or listings

SQL and modern data concepts

Familiarity with data quality, governance, and security concepts

Experience with agile methodologies, backlog management, and roadmap execution

Strong technical writing skills, including experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams

Interest in building reliable, user-friendly data products and developing technical product management expertise

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights, with headquarters in Moscow, ID (US) and offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India. We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions and companies, and our communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.