Data Product Owner

Data Product Owner

Location: Cashton United States

Job Description:

Data Product Owner

Location - This is a hybrid role, which means that you will have the flexibility to work both onsite and at a distance. You will collaborate onsite at our Cashton, WI office for 4-8 days per month, and the rest of the time you can choose to work remotely or onsite.

Employee Type - Salaried

Bonus - This position is eligible for a 3% annual incentive bonus based on cooperative and individual performance.

Safety Sensitive - No

Summary of Role

This role is responsible for delivering governed, high-quality data products that support enterprise architecture standards and business needs. It combines technical experience with business acumen, acting as a bridge between governance, architecture, and delivery teams. The role manages the backlog, defines user stories, and drives execution in an agile environment to ensure data assets are compliant, well-documented, and aligned with business objectives. Operating in a federated model, this role implements centrally defined policies within assigned data domains and applies non-invasive data governance by embedding controls, metadata, and quality checks into delivery workflows to minimize friction and accelerate trusted analytics.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Product Management - 20% of time

o Own and prioritize the domain data product backlog; define release plans and priorities aligned to data governance maturity.

o Conduct feasibility analyses to translate business requirements and governance rules into actionable user stories and document acceptance criteria.

• Data Ownership and Governance - 25% of time

o Apply data governance best practices to ensure data quality and consistency; enforce governance for assigned domains.

o Collaborate with Data & Analytics coworkers, Business System Analysts, and business teams on data ownership enablement through adherence to data governance framework, policies, and standards.

o Maintain metadata, glossary, lineage, decision logs, and ownership details in the data catalog.

o Ensure compliance with non-invasive governance framework and internal controls.

• Architecture and Design - 25% of time

o Collaborate with Data Architect, BI Architect, and Data Governance Manager to define CROPP's data products and strategy.

o Understand and own data product domain semantic layer design.

o Manage technical requirements between source domains and consuming analytics through engagement with business stakeholders and Data/BI Architects.

o Collaborate with engineers and architects to validate technical designs, data pipelines/transformation logic, and semantic layer implementation.

o Support integration of governance tools with SAP Analytics Cloud and other BI platforms.

o Assist with the design, build, and maintenance of scalable data domains and products in line with governance and architecture roadmaps.

• Stakeholder Engagement and Continuous Improvement - 25% of time

o Facilitate stakeholder discussions with business teams to define data requirements, resolve conflicts, clarify business definitions and enforce system-of-record decisions.

o Proactively seek solutions to improve data quality, reliability, and delivery efficiency.

o Collaborate on facilitating workshops to support data requirements gathering, data literacy, and governance best practices.

o Utilize metrics to identify areas for enforcement and improvement in process, governance and architecture; communicate progress, risks, and metrics to leadership and stakeholders.

Additional Duties and Responsibilities - 5% of time

• Work with data tools for querying and accessing data; analyze raw data and troubleshoot issues.
• Ensure all data product changes include catalog updates, lineage refresh, and stakeholder communications prior to release.
• Other duties as assigned by supervisor.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies

• 5-7 years' experience in data-focused roles strongly preferred (data product ownership, governance, analytics, and/or architecture).
• Data Governance expertise: understanding of data stewardship, lineage, and compliance frameworks.
• Technical experience: SQL, data modeling (conceptual, logical, physical), SAP Data Services/BODS (or similar ETL tools), SAP S/4 HANA (or similar), and/or SAP Datasphere.
• Familiarity with modern metadata management and data catalog tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Atlan).
• Basic understanding of data architecture, entity-relationship diagrams (ERDs), data lineage, impact analysis, and technical data processing.
• Design-oriented, able to work with data models.
• Strong documentation mindset and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, facilitation, and Agile delivery skills.
• Project management skills (certification not required).
• Proficiency with Microsoft productivity stack, including Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint), Visio, and DevOps

Base salary wage range: $88,546 - $110,698 per year

This salary wage range is exclusive of fringe benefits. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary bonuses. If you are hired at CROPP, your final base salary wage compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. Additionally, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that entry-level candidates to this role should expect to be at the lower end of the salary wage range and hiring at the maximum of the salary wage range is not typical.

Benefits

We believe when our people are strong, our mission is strong. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive and holistic Total Rewards package meant to strengthen employees' and their family's total wellbeing. Here are some of the great benefits offered:

• Comprehensive Health Insurance - Choice of plans for you and your family, including some that can be paired with an HSA (which CROPP contributes to on your behalf)

• Supplemental insurances: we offer accidental insurance, critical illness insurance, and hospital indemnity insurance.

• Time Off - 136 hours in the 1st year of employment prorated by start date. Plus 9 paid holidays, plus one floating holiday to use at will.

• 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave - For all gendered partners in childbirth or adoption.

• Vision & Dental Insurance - Free annual eye exam, discounts on glasses/contacts, flexible dental network, adult ortho.

• 401k - We match 100% up to the first 3% of an employee's contribution, and then 50% for 3.1%-5.0% of employee contributions.

• Free services at five local Neighborhood Family Clinics.

• Tuition Reimbursement - Up to $1,500 per year to support continuing higher education.

• Life Insurance - $50,000 policy funded by CROPP for each employee. Supplemental voluntary coverage available for employees, spouses, and children.

• Short-Term & Long-Term Disability/AD&D Insurance - $50,000 of life insurance coverage of $50,000 of AD&D coverage funded by CROPP for each employee.

• Employee Assistance Program - Free and Confidential for employees, spouses, and dependents.

• Free onsite fitness centers available 24/7

• Free biometric screenings (cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure) and health coaching.

• Financial advisors and seminars

• Annual $360 Lifestyle Spending Account

• Flexible Scheduling

• On-site all-organic cafeterias