Staff Product Manager - Data Platforms - 12 month FTC

Role overview

Team: Data Platforms
Salary banding: £82,000 - £100,000
Contract type: 12 month Fixed-Term Contract
Experience: Expert
Working pattern: Full-Time
Reporting to: Delivery & Growth Lead

This role in 3 words: Enablement, Governance, Impact
Top 3 qualities for this role: Systems thinking, Analytical rigour, Stakeholder influence

Where you’ll work

Hub based people are expected in the office at least once a week and to attend OVO Connection events in-person. You’ll be assigned to the closest of our three hub offices in Bristol, Glasgow, or London.

Teamworking for the planet

The Data Platform team builds the "golden path" for data at OVO: ingestion, publishing, governance, and self-serve tooling that turns raw operational data into trusted, AI-ready data products served as operational APIs and analytical data products in BigQuery.

This role in a nutshell

As a Staff Product Manager you will lead the product vision and strategy for the Data Platform across three capability areas: golden-path platform foundation, trust and governance at scale, and self-serve discovery. You will bring data engineering, API and platform engineering, data science, analytics, and data-producing teams together and use evidence to prioritise work that raises trust, cuts cost, and reduces duplication.

Your key outcomes

• Governed, trusted, AI ready data at scale
• Self-serve by default
• Data simplification and sources of truth
• Cost and performance visibility

Key Responsibilities

• Shape and deliver Platform strategy
• Measure and prove Platform impact
• Lead governance and compliance by design
• Enable Data Simplification
• Drive adoption and growth
• Engage and influence stakeholders
• Champion Platform product management

You’ll be successful if you…

• Have built products for technical customers
• Have fluency across the API and analytical stack
• Have a grasp of data governance and simplification
• Have a bias for adoption
• Have the influence to move decentralised teams
• Have evidence-led instincts

What’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £82,000 and £100,000. You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We also offer 9% Flex Pay, 34 days holiday, healthcare benefits, wellbeing perks, lifestyle benefits, home and commute support, and Belonging Networks.