Data Product Owner

About the Role

The Data Product Owner (DPO) at Greystar will play a critical role in driving build out, adoption and governance of our enterprise data platform. This DPO partners with analytics teams, data engineers, and data governance to ensure that data products are aligned, standardized, and usable across the organization. The DPO will act as the primary point of contact for Line of Business (LOB) analytics teams, define roadmaps and priorities, translate business requirements into actionable data product features and enable self-service analytics by ensuring business teams can use curated data assets.

Key Responsibilities

Stakeholder Alignment & Road mapping

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the LOB analytics teams you support.
• Define and manage the roadmap and priorities for data initiatives in partnership with analytics leads.
• Provide updates on backlog progress, risks, dependencies, and timelines to stakeholders.

Backlog Ownership & Delivery

• Own and prioritize the Data Management Platform (DMP) backlog for the data domains they own to maximize business value and minimize downstream ripple effects.
• Gather, clarify, and document requirements (functional, technical, and data quality) and translate them into user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Drive Sprint Planning and backlog execution in partnership with engineering teams.

Prototyping & Self-Service Enablement

• Write SQL and Python to support just-in-time analysis and prototyping for the analytics teams
• Demonstrate how curated (“gold”) datasets can be leveraged to drive business outcomes by developing light weight dashboards /prototypes which can answer specific business questions, enabling analytics teams to productionalize their use cases.
• Champion self-service analytics enablement by answering questions and providing training to business teams so they can use governed data assets.

Business Rule Definition & Documentation

• Partner with domain experts and governance teams to define business rules for data transformation from bronze → silver → gold layers.
• Create source-to-target mapping documents in plain language, capturing proposed business rules and refining them based on stakeholder feedback.
• Break down business rules into detailed user stories for engineering teams to implement.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Align with data governance, data stewards, and architects to standardize data definitions, quality rules, and compliance controls.
• Perform testing and validation alongside engineering and QA to ensure acceptance criteria is met and data deployed to production is of high quality and able to drive business value
• Collaborate with engineering teams to industrialize data pipelines and integrate governance-driven quality controls.

Governance & Alignment

• Ensure consistency of business rules and data definitions across multiple LOBs; coordinate with Governance to resolve misalignments.
• Surface and escalate conflicting business requirements to governance teams, helping drive consensus.
• Support governance discussions by providing insights on current implementation using domain knowledge, documentation, or reverse-engineering with engineering teams when necessary.

About You

You bring solid SQL and Python skills, using both to dig into data, build prototypes, and solve problems fast. You understand data modeling inside out and know your way around modern data platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, and ADF.

You care about data quality and governance, making sure business rules are clear, consistent, and reliable. You’re a strong communicator who can bridge technical and non-technical teams with ease. Highly organised, you’re comfortable working in Agile - managing backlogs, shaping user stories, and keeping sprints on track.

What We Offer

We include a range of benefits for our corporate team members, including competitive pension, healthcare, and holiday allowance, amongst others as standard. Please reach out if you are keen to know more.

About Greystar

Greystar is a leading, fully integrated real estate company offering expertise in investment management, development, and management of rental housing properties globally. The company's business model is unique in its ability to own, operate, and develop multifamily, student, and senior housing across the globe. Building a global platform with a local presence, Greystar continues to expand its geographic reach around the world, bringing a globally interconnected professional rental housing platform and industry funded with institutional capital to countries where the sector does not yet exist. Greystar’s pan – European platform was established in 2013 and has scaled rapidly, now with investment, operational and development presence in the UK, Ireland, France, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, and Spain.

One of Greystar’s core values is Equality, and as such, we continue to pride ourselves on being an equal opportunities employer, accounting for all protected and identifiable characteristics. We truly value diversity of thought, background and of experience. Please reach out to the Talent Acquisition team to explore opportunities at Greystar in more detail or visit our careers site at https://jobs.greystar.com/.