Senior Data Product Owner

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

The Central Technology team is responsible for providing reliable and reusable technology to dozens of app and game teams. We own Online Services, In-Engine Tech, Build Systems, and other shared and scalable internal products. This role partners with the Online Services portion of the department, focusing on Accounts, Social, Ecom, and more. Our suite of tech is instrumental in allowing the products and business not only to get to market quickly but be able to focus on unique features and customer satisfaction.

As the Senior Data Product Owner on our team, you will ensure we are capturing the right information to meaningfully move our businesses forward. This position is half technical analyst and half project coordinator. It will leverage SQL expertise as well as generate consensus between teams. You will find holes in our data and work with others to fill them. You will identify unconnected information and join them. You'll manage your roadmap as well as influence the roadmaps of teams sending us data. In this role, you'll be at the ground level of the information that is the foundation of our next new world and new game or app.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the bigger data vision across systems - This role will own the progress toward improving the Platform Services and Player Network data value across our company. It is accountable for strategic vision and tactical execution. It is responsible for data validity, transparency, accessibility, and scalability in collaboration with back-end services, front-end websites, ETL, and BI teams.
• Build and represent the data pipeline - this position ensures apps are sending the right payloads, that the QA team is performing their due diligence, that the ETL team's requirements are met, and that the Product Managers have what they need to continually drive user and business impact.
• Own the Playbook - Through filling gaps in past documentation and publishing easy-to-incorporate processes for integration, this position will make onboarding new apps and partners to our practices and expectations a breeze.

What You'll Bring:

• 5 years of building proactive data analysis to drive business strategy and/or execution.
• 2 years working in video game development or video game publishing.
• 2 years combining multiple real-time, digital product sources (web, mobile app, internal systems, etc.).
• Experience influencing other disciplines in collecting, verifying, and interpreting data toward better questions and answers.
• A track record of building data solutions from mobile and web apps that directly improve the performance of the business, including data architecture, payload documentation/tracking, the ETL process, and analysis delivery/presentation.
• Proficiency in SQL (Postgres, TSQL, etc.), Python, and other analytic programming tools, libraries, and languages.
• Tactical experience building new data products on new but growing data infrastructure.

We are an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action Employer

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

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