About you
You are a strategic and experienced Product Manager with a strong background in data platforms, ready to be pivotal in bringing a new product to market. You possess a deep understanding of the product lifecycle and a proven ability to define and execute a product roadmap from vision through development. Your collaborative approach enables you to effectively engage cross-functional teams, translating market insights and customer needs into innovative, technically sound solutions. With a solid technical acumen and exceptional communication skills, you are driven to shape the future of our data offerings. Key success measures for this position will be successful platform adoption, velocity of roadmap delivery, and your ability to align stakeholder priorities.
About Us
Cornerstone is a highly respected B2B software company in the travel, expense and data management space – one of the largest and most vibrant sectors in the world. We’ve built a great reputation for delivering solid technology that scales globally, tailored to the needs of each customer. Our reputation is based on a deep understanding of the industry, our technology, our hands-on, approachable culture and the highest level of integrity.
This legacy is our launchpad to innovation. We are bringing a game-changing data management platform to market, we have recently re-branded and we’re expanding into new markets. Why? Data issues are the biggest obstacle facing our industry. And we’re the best ones to solve the problem because we live it side by side with our customers every day, at scale. So we’re taking on the challenge. It’s what we do.
Position Overview
As the Product Manager for the Cornerstone Data Management Platform, you will be a driving force behind its execution, market adoption, and growth. Your focus will be on optimizing the platform's scalability and overall value by defining product strategy, collaborating with technical and commercial teams, and ensuring it meets business objectives while delivering innovative data solutions to customers. A strong emphasis will be placed on market validation and achieving product-market fit, requiring a balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. You will leverage your experience in data management platforms and agile product development, along with a data-driven approach, to refine product direction and work closely with cross-functional teams to define and execute the product roadmap, ensuring alignment with business needs and industry best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and manage the Data Management Platform’s product life cycle from strategic planning to execution.
- Define and maintain a clear, customer-driven product roadmap aligned with business goals, leveraging data analytics to inform strategic decisions.
- Ensure that new and existing products meet development targets and support the organization's financial goals.
- Embed discovery practices to ensure product decisions are informed by user needs and business value.
- Prioritize product backlog items based on customer feedback, business impact, and technical feasibility.
- Balance business objectives with technical constraints, ensuring the platform’s evolution aligns with Cornerstone’s broader data strategy.
- Incorporate research and concept development projects and capabilities with market analysis, industry intelligence, and customer monitoring to support product roadmaps and innovate new products, enhancements, and redesigns.
- Collaborate with UX/UI teams to design user-centered solutions that enhance platform usability and adoption.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive scalable, high-performance data solutions.
- Align product initiatives with security, compliance, and performance best practices.
- Foster strong collaboration with data engineering, sales, and customer success teams to ensure product success.
- Lead product demos, stakeholder updates, and roadmap reviews to keep teams aligned.
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in product management for data platforms, SaaS, or enterprise software required; 10 years’ total experience in product management or similar function strongly preferred.
- Familiarity with agile methodologies (Scrum/Kanban), JIRA, and backlog management.
Skills and Competencies
- Proficiency in leveraging cloud-based data platforms such as Snowflake and AWS for data warehousing, ETL, and analytics required; experience with Sigma or similar BI and analytics tools strongly preferred.
- Proven experience in implementing and optimizing product management planning processes within organizations.
- Conversant in basic technical architecture (application, network) with a focus on data-related aspects.
- Strong commercial awareness and the ability to influence the development of strategy for broad sales territories.
- Experience working with data management, integration platforms, or cloud technologies.
- Strong analytical skills and a data-driven approach to product decision-making.
- Proven start-up mentality, understanding resource constraints and proactively creating processes while demonstrating entrepreneurial spirit within a larger context.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with experience presenting to executive stakeholders.
- Experience conducting competitive analysis and market research to drive product positioning.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Cornerstone Information Systems is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.