Product Owner, Enterprise Data Engineering

THE POSITION

Are you a data-minded and detail-focused Product Owner ready to help build a world-class Enterprise data platform? The Enterprise DEG Product Owner will help LendingTree develop and democratize the use of Enterprise and Marketplace data assets across LendingTree and our affiliated companies through a relationship-based approach with our business and Analytics teams.

Your responsibilities include the development of a data product roadmap for the delivery of technology data & analytics assets. Through collaboration with business and technical stakeholders to understand business requirements and prioritization. Support and design innovative data products enabling data availability for data intelligence, analytics, and reporting.  Strong communication and analytical abilities are a requirement. You will act as a crucial conduit between our business, engineering, and analytics teams to help us capitalize on one of LendingTree’s greatest assets, our data.

The Enterprise Data Engineering team at LendingTree is responsible for

• Enabling data democracy across LendingTree through the implementation, configurations, and support of enterprise data pipelines in a Modern data ecosystem.
• Providing 360 view of real-time and historical data, to stakeholders and platforms with speed, accuracy, and integrity

The Product Owner leading this team will work to define a vision and implement a unified data strategy for:

• Leverages analytical and business intelligence skills to translate business requirements into data models/visualizations/user stories for effective insight generation and enablement of business and Analytical reporting processes.
• Maintain prioritization and refinement of the product backlog, deciding what to build and when, partnering with business and Analytic teams to estimate features, define requirements, and collaborate on a product roadmap based on the team’s capacity.
• Enabling a world-class marketplace centric data-platform so all Analytic and Data-science teams can use accurate, real-time data to develop powerful solutions that unlock new levels of interactivity, personalization, and functionality, to improve the user experience and value of data.
• We are looking for a candidate with proven data analytics experience utilizing data analysis methodologies and tools to increase efficiency and effectiveness. This role requires strong technical skills, curiosity to learn new business processes, a creative mindset, critical thinking, and interpersonal skills.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Serve as THE subject matter expert for the Data product and the technology that powers the Marketplace and Analytics data platform
• Take ownership over the integrity of data and work with technology and analytics to audit and build confidence in LendingTree data platform
• Serve as a leader for defining how we gather, store, discover, and utilize content, data, and information to deliver contextual customer experiences
• Partner with Technology and drive rapidly delivering quality software on a regular basis. This requires the following:
• Delivering detailed requirements in the form of user stories and acceptance criteria, in which all potential use cases and edge cases have been considered and crafted
• Attending all regular scrum meetings (standup, backlog review, planning, and retrospectives)
• Conducting User Acceptance Testing in a timely fashion and raising any issues to QA and Engineering as soon as possible in the test cycle
• Supervising the release of features and helping with production and User acceptance validation as needed

QUALIFICATIONS

• 3+ years of experience working as a Product Owner at a technology company, within a Scrum/Agile environment
• Experience facilitating teams and breaking down business/technical requirements into deliverables.
• Experience with modern Data Platforms and lifecycle -Data acquisition, transformation, data governance, reporting and Analytics.
• Experience with A/B testing, analyzing data, and arriving at actionable recommendations
• Experience with SQL, data architecture, cloud data warehouse, Tableau, and real-time data pipelines.
• Excellent knowledge of data and analytics technologies required to translate data to insight
• A natural leader who can rally the troops when necessary and push the team hard without deteriorating goodwill or trust
• A roll-up-your-sleeves, do-whatever-it-takes-to-win approach and an understanding that no task is too insignificant
• Ability to present to partners at the executive level

Additional Experience Preferred:

• Product or project management certification
• Agile certification
• Master’s degree in business, engineering, or design
• Professional or academic experience with algorithmic personalization and recommendation concepts

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.
Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know:

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.
• We still make funny commercials.

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

This is an opportunity for full-time employee