Senior Technical Product Manager Data Infrastructure

About Us

Applecart is the leading technology company that C-suites rely on to reach business-critical decision makers. The most important decisions are made by the hardest people to reach and influence. Historically C-suite leaders have lacked the tools to reach the stakeholders who matter most to their business. The C-suites of hundreds of Fortune 500 companies major agencies trade associations nonprofits and governments use Applecart to put their best content in front of business-critical decision makers and those they trust —  from policymakers and investors to CEOs key employees members of the media and more. Decision makers are informed by what they read learn from advisors hear from colleagues and discuss with family and friends. To break through to them you must reach them through the only channel that really moves them: those they know and trust. Applecart’s platform uses publicly available data to map billions of social relationships between nearly every American adult and enable clients to deliver content directly to decision makers and those who matter most to them. 

We are hiring a Senior Technical Product Manager Data Infrastructure in our New York office.

About the Role:

You will be responsible for defining and driving the product architecture roadmap and prioritization for data lakehouse architecture in alignment with Applecart’s business and data practices. Additionally be the champion for best practices in release engineering observability and data governance.  In this position you will work with the data infrastructure research and measurement teams. This role will report to the Director of Product Management.

What You’ll Do:

• Define and lead the product vision for core areas of Applecart’s internal data platform including capabilities such as metadata management data classification observability and identity resolution.
• Own the product roadmap and prioritization process in close collaboration with engineering analytics data scientist and legal teams.
• Translate data consumption/ creation internal use cases and stakeholder feedback into clear structured product requirements.
• Partner with Data Engineering to deliver scalable reliable data pipelines and platform services using technologies such as Snowflake Databricks Airflow and dbt.
• Guide adoption of data infrastructure and tooling across teams by ensuring it meets the needs of data producers and consumers alike.
• Define and track success metrics that demonstrate impact on data availability trust usability or activation.
• Communicate product priorities trade offs and timelines clearly across technical and non-technical audiences.

Experiences and Capabilities You Bring:

• 6+ years of experience in product management with at least 3+ years focused on data platforms infrastructure or enterprise SaaS environments.
• Experience owning platform infrastructure or customer data products in a data-rich environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Impeccable attention to detail and superior organizational skills.
• Proficiency in SQL—enough to engage meaningfully with technical stakeholders and dive into data use cases.
• Familiarity with data observability platforms or privacy and compliance frameworks. 
• Background implementing or scaling internal data catalogs customer data platforms or data activation pipelines.
• Strong technical background with working knowledge of AWS Snowflake dbt and cloud-native data architectures.
• Proficiency in Agile development practices and tools—roadmapping story writing backlog grooming and sprint planning.
• Familiarity with Git-based code management and SDLC workflows.
• Experience driving adoption of observability and monitoring practices across infrastructure products.
• Deep understanding of data governance including data security privacy regulations and compliance standards.
• Prior experience as a software or data engineer is a plus.
• Experience with AI/ML workflows is a plus. 

This is a hybrid role. Work from home on Monday and Friday and in Applecart’s New York City office Tuesday through Thursday. 

Relocation assistance is not available for this position. Candidates must be based in or willing to relocate to the area independently.

Compensation:

Our compensation package consists of three components: (i) a base salary (ii) annual cash bonus and (iii) generous equity compensation.

The base salary range for this role is between $160000 to $195000 based on the candidate's experience and skills relative to the requirements listed above. The salary range provided is exclusive of discretionary annual cash bonus and equity compensation. The salary range provided for this role is specific to candidates located in the New York City area.

A few facts about us:

• Applecart’s platform has been used by hundreds of industry-leading clients spanning Fortune 500 companies like Blackstone and Intuit leading nonprofit organizations like the Environmental Defense Fund and top-tier advertising and communications agencies like Teneo FGS Weber Shandwick and OMD. 
• Applecart is growing quickly — over the last 3 years we’ve increased our bookings by 10X grown our headcount by 4X and we’re cashflow positive. 
• Our senior leadership team includes two members of the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Marketing and Advertising the former Head of Product at Moat Oracle’s online ad measurement platform a former senior White House advisor early sales and talent leaders from Google and Twitter two of the Democratic Party’s most successful pollsters and strategists a former CRO of a high-growth tech company with hundreds of millions in ARR and alums of top-tier organizations like Bain Amazon and Simpson Thacher.
• Our investors include Bain & Company global sports entertainment and marketing giant Endeavor KKR Co-Founder Henry Kravis entrepreneur Chris Burch a founder of Palantir senior engineering leaders at Twitter and Yelp former Fortune 50 and advertising agency CEOs and a number of well-known venture capitalists. Ari Emanuel CEO of TKO and Executive Chairman of WME serve on our board. 
• Our work has been featured on Morning Joe on MSNBC BloombergTV and The Colbert Report and in Axios BusinessWeek the Associated Press Forbes the Washington Post and Politico among many others.

What We Do

Applecart advises the C-suites of hundreds of industry-leading organizations spanning over 100 Fortune 500 companies top communications and advertising agencies major trade associations leading nonprofit organizations and governments. Applecart’s platform enables CEOs Chief Corporate Affairs Officers CCOs CMOs and other C-suite executives to generate visibility for their most valuable content with critical decision makers and those in their orbits across nearly any channel. Clients leverage Applecart across a broad range of strategic communications use-cases from public affairs and corporate communications to investor relations employee relations and brand marketing.

Why Work With Us

Applecart has a people-centric culture that empowers our teams to grow within a collaborative environment. We're passionate about what we do. Applecart provides the opportunity to create impactful change within an innovative working environment. We promote from within and invest in our team with professional development opportunities.

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