Director Product Operations Jobs in Michigan (NOW HIRING)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Own the multi-year vision, strategy, and roadmap for Lineage's Data Solutions portfolio, spanning central data repositories, enterprise reporting, KPI and performance management tools, and analytics products.

• Lead, coach, and develop an existing team of product managers and business analysts; set clear priorities, raise the standard of product craft, and build a healthy pipeline of talent.

• Treat the data platform as a product: define and prioritize the capabilities, data domains, and quality standardsrequiredto serve both today's reporting needs and emerging analytics and AI use cases.

• Partner with data engineering, data science, and enterprise architecture to align platform investment with product strategy, balancing new capability delivery against reliability, scalability, and technical debt.

• Champion data trust across the enterprise - partner with data governance, finance, and operations stakeholders to ensure consistent definitions, certified metrics, anda single sourceof truth for business-critical reporting.

• Drive adoption and measurable business impact:establishsuccess metrics for the portfolio, instrument usage, retire low-value assets, and hold the team accountable for outcomes rather than output.

• Engage stakeholders from frontline warehouse leaders to the C-suite to understand decision-making needs, translate them into product requirements, and communicate the "why" behind roadmap choices.

• Coordinate with product leaders across the technology organization to align roadmaps, share data capabilities, and ensure cohesive execution across interconnected products.

• Facilitate annual and quarterly planning for the portfolio, making transparent trade-offs across value, scope, budget, resources, dependencies, and timelines.

• Manage relationships with third-party development teams and technology vendors that contribute to the portfolio, ensuring quality and value for investment.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years directly managing and developing product managers.

• Demonstrated success owning data, analytics, or business intelligence products - e.g., data platforms, enterprise reporting, KPI/dashboarding tools, or data-as-a-product initiatives - at enterprise scale.

• Strong technical acumen with modern cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake or equivalent), BI and visualization tools, and the fundamentals of data modeling, pipelines, and governance; able to engage credibly with engineers and data scientists.

• Proven ability to inherit an existing product portfolio and team, quickly build credibility, and drive a step-change in strategy, execution, and outcomes.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to convey complex data concepts to non-technical audiences and to influence stakeholders at every level, including the C-suite.

• Proven ability to lead change in large, complex, global organizations, and comfortoperatingin a fast-paced, highly visible environment.

• Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering AI/ML-enabled product capabilities or preparing data platforms to support machine learning and generative AI use cases.

• Experience inlogistics, supply chain, or other operationally intensive industries; warehouse operations exposure is a plus.

• Experience with enterprise information management domains such as financial, operational, HR, or ESG reporting.

• Familiarity with Atlassian tools (JIRA, Confluence) and analytical tools (SQL, Excel).

• Experience working with geographically distributed teams and third-party development partners.

Why Join Us?

At Lineage,you'llhave the opportunity to make a global impact by transforming the food supply chain. Data is the lifeblood of our business, and this role sits at its center - you'll shape how one of the world's largest warehousingcompaniesmeasures, manages, and improves its operations, while building the data foundation for the next generation of analytics and AI at Lineage.

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