Manager, Data Product Management - Governance

The Manager, Data Product Management - Governance will support the delivery, adoption, and governance of data products across Johnson & Johnson MedTech Digital Solutions. This role will ensure data products are well-defined, discoverable, trusted, and aligned to business priorities, enterprise data standards, and applicable regulatory expectations.

The position partners closely with business collaborators, data owners, technology teams, governance partners, and data engineering teams to translate business needs into clear data product requirements.

The role will advance consistent data product practices, strengthening data transparency, and supporting balanced operating models enabling compliant, scalable, and business-relevant use of data.

Key Role Responsibilities

• Data Product Governance: Support the definition, implementation, governance practices, including ownership, stewardship, controls, metadata expectations, and lifecycle management.
• Business Requirements & Product Enablement: Partner with business team members to collect, clarify, and prioritize product data needs!
• Translating business outcomes into clear requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery-ready documentation for technical teams.
• Catalog, Glossary & Metadata Management: Maintain and improve business glossaries, data dictionaries, metadata standards, and catalog entries are searchable, understandable and consistently defined.
• Data Quality & Stewardship: Coordinate with data owners, stewards, and functional partners to define data quality expectations
• Multi-functional Partnership: Collaborate with technology, data engineering, architecture, privacy, legal, regulatory, and records management partners.
• Operating Model & Adoption: Support the development of repeatable processes, playbooks, governance forums, and communications to improve and sustain business value!

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience Data Analytics, Information Systems, Business Administration, Computer Science, Engineering, Life Sciences, or a related field is required; advanced degree experience preferred.
• Required Experience: A minimum of 5 years of significant experience in data product management, data governance, data stewardship, analytics, business analysis, or enterprise data enablement is required.
• Preferred Experience: Experience working in a regulated environment such as MedTech, healthcare, pharmaceutical, or another highly governed industry.
• Technical & Functional Skills: Confirmed experience with data catalogs, business glossaries, metadata management, data quality practices, requirements documentation, and multi-functional delivery methods. Familiarity with tools such as Alation, Collibra, Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or related platforms is an asset.
• Leadership Proficiencies: Good communication, team member management, analytical problem-solving, prioritization, teamwork skills, with the ability to influence across business and technology teams.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow, and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at jnj.com

As guided by Our Credo, Johnson & Johnson is responsible to our employees who work with us throughout the world. We provide an inclusive work environment where each person is considered as an individual. At Johnson & Johnson, we respect the diversity and dignity of our employees and recognize their merit., Johnson & Johnson Med Tech, a member of Johnson & Johnson’s Family of Companies, is recruiting for a Manager, Data Product Management & Governance.

We have a pre-identified candidate for this position; however, other qualified candidates will also be considered.

At Johnson & Johnson, we believe health is everything. Our strength in healthcare innovation empowers us to build a world where complex diseases are prevented, treated, and cured, where treatments are smarter and less invasive, and solutions are personal. Through our expertise in Innovative Medicine and MedTech, we are uniquely positioned to innovate across the full spectrum of healthcare solutions today to deliver the breakthroughs of tomorrow and profoundly impact health for humanity. Learn more at (;/strong>