Staff Product Manager, Data Platform

As a Staff Product Manager focused on our Data Platform, you'll play a crucial role in shaping, prioritizing, and delivering data initiatives aligned with strategic business objectives. Your work will directly empower analytics engineers, data scientists, and analysts by providing reliable, scalable data products and services.

You'll apply a product-oriented approach to scope, understand, and prioritize development across:

• Data Collection, Orchestration, and Transformation
• Data Storage
• Data Governance & Privacy
• Data Observability
• Data Reliability
• Usage & Performance Insights
• Machine Learning
• Data APIs

You will report directly to the VP of Product Management. This is a hybrid role working from our NYC headquarters 2-3 days per week.

Responsibilities

• Product Ownership: Own the product roadmap for the Data Platform team, balancing technical feasibility, user impact, and business goals.
• Vision & Strategy: Define and communicate a clear, compelling vision and strategy for the data platform, aligning closely with Squarespace's broader strategic objectives.
• Technical Roadmap: Lead user discovery and market research to deeply understand current and future user needs, translating insights into actionable roadmaps.
• Data Integration & Reliability: Prioritize and oversee data integration projects, ensuring they meet accuracy, latency, and availability service-level objectives (SLOs).
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with analytics product managers and technical teams to champion data quality, reliability, and best practices across Squarespace.
• Stakeholder Communication: Clearly articulate strategy, progress, and outcomes to stakeholders across the company, ensuring alignment and buy-in.

Who We're Looking For

• Experience: 8+ years of product management or technical leadership experience, ideally in data-intensive environments.
• Technical Acumen: Deep expertise in data systems architecture, microservices, and infrastructure design, with the capability to engage in technical decisions.
• Systems Thinking: Demonstrated ability in end-to-end system design, including knowledge of component-based architectures, data storage solutions, and integration methods.
• Data Architecture: Experience with data modeling, database design, and data warehousing, including familiarity with large-scale data model improvements.
• API Design: Understanding of RESTful APIs and integration patterns to enable seamless interoperability.
• Education: Bachelor's degree required; MS in Computer Science or related engineering discipline is preferred.

Benefits & Perks

• A choice between medical plans with an option for 100% covered premiums
• Fertility and adoption benefits
• Access to supplemental insurance plans for additional coverage
• Headspace mindfulness app subscription
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Retirement benefits with employer match
• Flexible paid time off
• 20 weeks for parental leave and up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member
• Pretax commuter benefit
• Education reimbursement
• Employee donation match to community organizations
• 8 Global Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Dog-friendly workplace
• Free lunch and snacks
• Private rooftop
• Hack week twice per year

Cash Compensation Range: $185,500 - $299,000 USD

The base salary for this position will vary based on job-related criteria including relevant skills, experience, and location, among other factors.

In addition to the cash compensation above (which includes base salary and, where applicable for eligible roles, may include on-target commissions or overtime pay), Squarespace employees are eligible to be granted an option to purchase our common stock.

About Squarespace

Squarespace is a design-driven platform helping entrepreneurs build brands and businesses online. We empower millions of customers in more than 200 countries and territories with all the tools they need to create an online presence, build an audience, monetize, and scale their business. Our suite of products range from websites, domains, ecommerce, and marketing tools, as well as tools for scheduling with Acuity and creating and managing social media presence with Bio Sites and Unfold. Our team of more than 1,500 is headquartered in bustling New York City, with offices in Dublin, Ireland, Aveiro, Portugal, and coworking spaces in the UK, Netherlands, and Australia. For more information about our company culture, visit https://www.squarespace.com/about/careers.

Our Commitment

Today, more than a million people around the globe use Squarespace to share different perspectives and experiences with the world. Not only do we embrace and celebrate the diversity of our customers, but we also work toward the same in our employees. At Squarespace, we are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, national origin, gender, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or parental status, disability, veteran status, or other class protected by applicable law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

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