Product Manager

About AB InBev GCC

AB InBev GCC, founded in 2014, is a strategic partner to Anheuser-Busch InBev that harnesses data and analytics to enhance critical business areas such as operations, finance, people, and technology. The organization focuses on transforming operations through technology and analytics.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Product Manager with a strong technical foundation to lead the development of integration products within BrewDat, AB InBev's data platform. BrewDat powers data products and AI solutions across multiple domains, providing data infrastructure, frameworks, and tools that support data ingestion, transformation, governance, and delivery at scale by following Data Mesh and Domain-Driven Design principles.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and refine the vision, strategy, and roadmap for BrewDat’s data engineering capabilities, including ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.
• Gather and prioritize the needs of data engineers, analytics engineers, machine learning engineers, and domain teams to inform product direction.
• Simplify complex platform functions into user-friendly products that enhance data teams’ efficiency and autonomy.
• Lead the development of an Integration-as-a-Service platform and facilitate migration from legacy middleware to cloud-native architecture.
• Collaborate closely with a cross-functional squad comprising engineers, delivery managers, architects, governance experts, and adoption teams that represent user needs.

Additional Duties

• Define and uphold the product vision for BrewDat’s data engineering layer, translating company and data strategies into a prioritized development roadmap.
• Conduct product discovery activities such as user interviews, usage analysis, experimentation, and feedback collection.
• Manage product backlog with clear problem statements, user stories, and acceptance criteria emphasizing outcome-driven delivery.
• Operate within an Agile framework, ensuring synchronization among product, engineering, and architecture teams.
• Establish and monitor product KPIs including adoption rates, customer satisfaction, build and data delivery times, and platform reliability.
• Encourage a culture of experimentation and continuous enhancements within the squad.
• Communicate effectively with diverse stakeholders across sales, marketing, supply, finance, and technology domains to align priorities and share progress.
• Oversee middleware roadmap, emphasize global reliability features, and track integration economics by standardizing costs per application.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Proven experience as a Product Manager or Product Owner in data platforms, data engineering, analytics tools, or developer/platform tooling with backend and infrastructure components.
• Possess a technical background such as Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or equivalent professional experience.
• Proficiency in engaging with technical architecture, data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, orchestration, data lakes, data warehouses, and API concepts.
• Familiarity with API management, event-driven architectures, and microservices in addition to core data pipeline knowledge.
• Skills in product discovery, problem definition, prioritization, roadmap planning, and stakeholder management.
• Excellent English communication skills, both written and oral.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with technologies such as Azure, Databricks, Apache Spark, Airflow, and Unity Catalog is advantageous but not essential.
• Understanding of engineering practices like GitHub workflows, CI/CD, code reviews, and Data Mesh methodologies is a plus.
• Background in developing internal platforms or products aimed at developer or data teams is valuable.
• Specific experience in legacy cloud migrations (e.g., MuleSoft to Camel-K), Azure DevOps delivery tracking, and observability tools like Datadog is welcomed.

Additional Information

Passion for the AB InBev culture and an enthusiasm for beer are highly regarded.