Data Product Owner
- Wichita, United States
Posted 6 days ago
About the role
Your Job
Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is seeking a strategic, results-oriented Data Product Owner to join our Information Technology (IT) team and help advance data and analytics capabilities across our Equipment, Technology, and Services (ET&S) business. This role will partner with leaders to influence priorities, build analytics capabilities, improve decision-making, accelerate value creation, and support continued data maturity.
As a trusted business partner, this role will clarify priorities and desired outcomes, shape capability roadmaps, and keep delivery focused on measurable business value. The role will also work closely with Data & Analytics and IT teams to translate business needs into requirements, delivery plans, adoption strategies, and sustainable solutions.
This position will be located in our Wichita, KS or Tulsa, OK office. Visa Sponsorship is not available for this position.
Our Team
The Data & Information Technology team is collaboratively focused on transforming business data into trusted, actionable information that enables effective decisions across Koch Engineered Solutions. Our team brings together data analysts, business data specialists, and data governance to partner closely with stakeholders to improve data quality, streamline decision making, and support digital transformation initiatives. We thrive on solving complex business challenges, driving continuous improvement, and creating practical solutions that help our organization work smarter. Above all, we value teamwork, curiosity, and commitment to delivering reliable data that drives long-term business value.
What You Will Do
- Partner with business leaders and stakeholders to understand objectives, challenges, opportunities, and desired business outcomes.
- Translate business goals, opportunities, and pain points into clear requirements, user stories, decision needs, and actionable data product initiatives.
- Proactively manage and prioritize data product work by balancing business impact, urgency, technical feasibility, data readiness, and team capacity and communicating trade-offs.
- Work closely with solutions delivery leads, data engineers, developers, architects, analysts, product owners, and IT partners throughout the delivery lifecycle.
- Ensure proposed solutions are practical, scalable, trusted, and aligned to real business decisions and workflows.
- Own, maintain, and communicate data product roadmaps that align to ET&S priorities, stakeholder needs, and business value.
- Support solution design, validation, testing, deployment, change management, and continuous improvement activities.
- Help advance ET&S data maturity by reinforcing accountability, transparency, and shared understanding of data products, supporting standards and best practices.
- Model ownership, curiosity, humility, and continuous improvement in how work is prioritized and delivered.
- Serve as a trusted advisor, connecting people, processes, data, and technology to create lasting value
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Experience in business analysis, data analytics, data management, product ownership, or related disciplines.
- Experience gathering and translating business requirements into analytics, reporting, data product, or technology solutions.
- Experience managing priorities, roadmaps, backlogs, or cross-functional delivery efforts.
- Experience partnering with business stakeholders and technical teams to deliver outcomes.
- Experience analyzing business problems, facilitating stakeholder discussions, evaluating solution options, and partnering with cross-functional teams to deliver business outcomes.
- Experience communicating business requirements, insights, recommendations, and project updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders through written, verbal, and presentation-based formats.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Experience owning or managing a data product roadmap.
- Experience working within data governance, master data management (MDM), data quality, or enterprise data programs.
- Advanced experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics and visualization platforms.
- Experience with SQL, Python, Snowflake, or other modern analytics technologies.
- Familiarity with Agile product delivery, backlog management, prioritization frameworks, and value tracking.
- Demonstrated ability to influence leaders, facilitate decisions, and drive cross-functional change.
- Proven ability to connect analytical work and data products to measurable business value and economic outcomes.
- Experience using artificial intelligence AI tools to analyze data, identify insights, streamline workflows, or improve business outcomes.
At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.
Hiring Philosophy
All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .
Who We Are
As a Koch company, Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) is a dynamic network of businesses that work together to create an ecosystem of domain expertise to increase operational efficiency, improve safety, reduce waste, and reduce emissions.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
Our Benefits
Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.
Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here , aquí , or tu ). #LI-MW1