Senior Product Manager, Data

Job description

--- At Forge, we know our team is our greatest asset. As technology innovators in the private market, our vision is to deliver a richer future for everyone. We live that vision through our values of being bold, accountable, and humble. We experience the value that our vision brings to the world every day, helping the teams behind the greatest innovations of our generation, from space travel to artificial intelligence, and more. With liquidity solutions, exclusive data and insights, a custody offering, and a vibrant marketplace, Forge’s goal is to build the best-in-class technology infrastructure to power a global private market that is transparent, accessible, and seamless for companies, their employees, and investors. Through Forge, employees can sell their private shares, employers can reward shareholders with pre-IPO liquidity and individual and institutional investors can participate in private unicorn growth. Forge's differentiated global marketplace addresses rising demand among individual and institutional investors for exposure to private company stocks and is building a growing network effect. Our ability to offer these powerful financial solutions has generated incredible interest from investors, demand from customers, and a need to grow our team to meet the needs of more companies, teams, and innovators in this way. **The Role:** The Senior Product Manager, Data owns the development and improvement of Forge's data products, including pricing, indices, derived data, reference data, and data distribution. This role is accountable for delivering accurate, reliable, and valuable products, working closely with engineering, data research, and data operations to turn customer and business needs into shipped solutions. **Responsibilities** - Own the roadmap, backlog, requirements, priorities, and success measures for one or more Forge data products. - Define and deliver data products that are accurate, reliable, usable, and relevant to customer and business needs. - Own data distribution through APIs and file-based feeds, including production monitoring, alerting, SLA performance, and coordination of issue resolution. - Partner with engineering, data research, and data operations across discovery, development, launch, and iteration. - Align internal stakeholders on priorities, dependencies, tradeoffs, risks, and outcomes. - Gather input from clients and external partners, when appropriate, and translate it into actionable product requirements. **Core Competencies** - **Product Experience:** You’ve managed financial data products through a complete life cycle for at least 5 to 8 years - **Data Product Management:** Understands how data is sourced, transformed, validated, distributed, and used; sets standards for accuracy, timeliness, and transparency. - **Product Execution:** Converts business and customer problems into clear requirements and delivered solutions. - **Stakeholder Alignment:** Builds trust and drives alignment across product, engineering, data, and commercial teams without direct authority. - **Financial Data Fluency:** Understands financial market data products and the needs of institutional data users. **Metrics for Success** - Products meet defined accuracy, quality, and reliability targets, including distribution SLAs. - Roadmap delivers measurable customer and business value. - Internal — and, where relevant, external — stakeholders trust the product direction and communication. **Scope / Impact Examples** - Ownership spans one or more Forge Data product areas (e.g., pricing, indices, derived data, reference data, distribution). - Coordinates cross-team initiatives with dependencies across engineering, data research, and data operations. - Represents Forge Data in internal planning forums and selected client or partner conversations. For residents of NY, NY area the annual base salary range for this role is $170,000 - $200,000 + annual bonus. Final offers may vary from the amount listed based on geography, candidate experience and expertise, bonus, and other factors. --- Upon offer, we conduct background checks that include employment and education verification, state, and county criminal history searches as well as fingerprint and drug test. --- Forge is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to supporting a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. ---