Data Products Program Lead (Contract to Hire)

Location: Victor, NY, United States; Remote

At CooperVision, a business unit of CooperCompanies (Nasdaq: COO), we’re driven by a unified purpose of helping people experience life’s beautiful moments. We are connected through our shared values - dedicated, innovative, friendly, partners, and do the right thing. As a leading global manufacturer of contact lenses, we are committed to helping improve the way people see each day. Through our diverse lens portfolio, we tackle the toughest vision challenges – including astigmatism, presbyopia, and childhood myopia. We offer the most complete collection of spherical, toric, and multifocal products available, enabling us to fit 99% of all contact wearers. Learn more at www.coopervision.com.

• This role is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization now or in the future. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States on a permanent and ongoing basis without the need for future sponsorship (i.e., H1B, STEM OPT extensions, TN, etc.)
   

Job Summary:
Leads delivery of the EDU program's data products from definition through release and consumer adoption. A majority-technical role with a program-management skill set: the holder must be able to read and challenge a data model, a semantic definition or a pipeline design, and must also run an integrated plan, a risk register and a steering-group pack to Global PMO standard.

Breaks the program's quarterly milestones into executable releases, convenes domain SMEs and system SMEs per project, and makes sure each product is released with a named owner, named consumers and defined DATSIS. Builds the evidence base (ways of working, intake, standards, council decisions, adoption metrics) on which the operating-model decision will be taken before month 18. 

The Data Products Program Lead manages execution of the Enterprise Data Unification (EDU) program, delivering governed enterprise data products that enable AI use cases. Initial products include Location 360, Product 360, and supporting product-chain event data products. Reporting to the business-side EDU lead and partnering with the IT Data Products Delivery Lead, this role owns product scope, definitions, acceptance, and consumer readiness, while IT owns platform and data delivery. The model reflects the future state of business-owned data products supported by IT-managed data aggregation. The program follows the Global PMO governance framework, with plans, resources, risks, dependencies, and KPIs managed through standard PMO reporting. The Stakeholder Group consists of registered data product consumers.