Senior Product Manager, Data

Overview

Grata is the leading private market dealmaking platform. We make it easy to find, research, and engage with private companies. Our platform has the most comprehensive, accurate, and searchable proprietary data on private companies, their financials, and their owners. We help leading investors (PE/growth), investment bankers, management consultants, and corporate development teams discover and win more deals. Grata has over 700 customers and has been widely recognized as the market leader by G2, PE Wire, and more.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Data Product Manager to drive forward Grata’s data initiatives, from expanding the scope of private companies in our system to introducing new datasets to our customer base to upholding our high data quality standards. In this role, you will strategize, implement, and optimize data accuracy, availability and freshness to enhance customer workflows and expand our product’s capabilities.

As our Senior Data Product Manager, you’ll collaborate with cross-functional teams to deeply understand customer needs, prioritize impactful features, and work closely with engineering and data scientists to deliver high-quality datasets. You will play a crucial role in ensuring Grata’s data adheres to Grata’s data quality standards, maintain reliability, and scale effectively with the evolving needs of our growing business. We are looking for someone who takes initiative, excels in a fluid environment and transforms ambiguity into clear solutions. The ideal candidate is also deeply customer-obsessed, ensuring that their work consistently aligns with and addresses customer needs. If you’re passionate about building innovative products, shaping the future of Grata’s data, and driving real impact for users, we’d love to hear from you.

Grata is a hybrid company, which means our employees work from our NYC office (near Bryant Park) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays.

At Grata, we will expect you to:

• Build a deep understanding of customer needs, pain points, and behaviors by partnering with commercial teams and conducting user research and data analysis
• Develop strategic roadmaps with clear milestones and measurable metrics to achieve ambitious goals and track progress effectively
• Work across machine learning, data scientists, design, engineering, QA, and product marketing to define and ship the roadmap 
• Prioritize initiatives ruthlessly using a data-driven approach to maximize impact and deliver customer value
• Craft detailed requirements informed by customer conversations, usage data analysis, and iterative feedback from design and engineering teams
• Establish yourself as the go-to expert and trusted leader for the product area, building credibility through ownership and results
• Communicate effectively with cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders, distilling complex ideas into clear insights that drive alignment across the organization

What we are looking for:

• 5+ years of product management experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication 
• Experience developing a strategic vision and product roadmap for data initiatives
• Can partner and influence effectively across all levels of an organization, and regularly use these skills to improve the work going on around you
• Experience in a prior startup or high-ambiguity environment; a track record of managing ambiguity and complexity affecting many stakeholders in an organized and structured way
• Experience with data modeling languages such as python, SQL and R 
• Strong expertise in data lakes, data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data governance frameworks.
• Experience with modern data stack technologies (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow, DBT, Kafka).
• Deep understanding of data modeling, domain-driven design, and building scalable, resilient data platforms.
• Interested in an office-centric culture with a flexible work environment
• [Bonus] Domain knowledge and experience with the private capital markets
• [Bonus] Prior experience as a data scientist, data engineer or senior data analyst

Benefits & Perks:

• Medical, dental, vision plans: we offer plans with 80% coverage of premiums for employees
• Company-sponsored lunch through Grubhub on a weekly basis
• Unlimited PTO policy 
• Flexible Work Location (FWL) policy that allows you to work from home 24 days of the year
• Other benefits: 12 weeks of parental leave, 401k, pre-tax commuter benefits, dog-friendly office

Grata is committed to providing competitive cash compensation and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in New York City, the estimated base salary for this role is $140,000 - $170,000 per year.

Grata is proud to be an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Grata considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Grata is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. 

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please let your recruiter know. In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification form upon hire.