Skip to content
CV Rocket
Get started
How it worksThe enginePricingBlogContactSign in

Open nowPosted today

IT Director, Data Product Management & Governance

Abbott3,954 open roles

Pay
$149,300 – $298,700 a year
Where
United States - Illinois - Waukegan
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Your applicationOpen nowIT Director, Data Product Management & GovernanceAbbott · United States - Illinois - Waukegan

  1. YouYes, apply to this one.

  2. CV RocketCV written for this posting.

  3. 25 readersRecruiter, hiring manager, skeptic. Round after round.

  4. CV RocketApplied on Abbott's own form.

The reply lands in your private mailbox

3×more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

The clock on this job

Early applications get read.

13.9% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Abbott postings stay open a median of 7 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 2.2%1 day
  2. 4.7%3 days
  3. 13.9%7 days
  4. 22.4%14 days
  5. 38.1%30 days
  6. 59.0%60 days
This job: posted today

Abbott median: 7 days open

The posting

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 122,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

WORKING AT ABBOTT:

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. You’ll also have access to:

  • Career development with an international company where you can grow the career you dream of
  • Free medical coverage for employees* via the Health Investment Plan (HIP) PPO
  • An excellent retirement savings plan with high employer contribution
  • Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelor’s degree
  • A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune
  • A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists

The Opportunity

The IT Director, Data Product Management & Governance is a senior technology leader responsible for building and sustaining Abbott's enterprise data product capabilities and governance framework. This role serves as the operational and strategic linchpin between data producers and data consumers across Abbott's global business units — ensuring that data is governed with rigor, managed as a product, and delivered as a trusted enterprise asset. This leader will drive the design and execution of a data product operating model while simultaneously advancing governance capabilities — from metadata management and data quality to policy enforcement, regulatory compliance, and data stewardship. A successful candidate brings deep technical fluency, demonstrated program delivery experience, and the organizational influence required to embed accountability for data quality and lifecycle management across a matrixed global enterprise.

Key Responsibilities

Data Product Strategy & Management

  • Design and operationalize Abbott's data product operating model — defining standards for product ownership, lifecycle management, discoverability, and consumption across all business domains.
  • Lead the development and curation of a data product catalog and marketplace infrastructure, enabling self-service access to high-quality, well-documented data assets.
  • Collaborate with domain data product owners to define SLAs, ownership accountability, usage metrics, and continuous improvement roadmaps for enterprise data products.
  • Champion a product mindset across the data organization — embedding practices for user research, iterative development, and outcome measurement into data product delivery.
  • Drive cross-functional initiatives to accelerate time-to-insight by reducing friction in data access, improving data usability, and expanding reuse of canonical data assets.
  • Partner with the Head of Data and Analytics and senior IT leadership to align data product investments with Abbott's strategic and digital transformation priorities.

Data Governance Operations & Compliance

  • Own and continuously evolve Abbott's enterprise data governance framework — including metadata standards, data lineage, data quality thresholds, access governance, and master data management.
  • Lead the enterprise Data Risk Assessment program, identifying and managing data security risks across platforms, applications, and business initiatives.
  • Ensure Abbott's data practices comply with applicable regulations including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and evolving global data privacy legislation — collaborating closely with Legal and Compliance to stay ahead of regulatory changes.
  • Build and sustain data stewardship programs and domain ownership models that distribute and reinforce accountability for data quality across the enterprise.

Technology & Platform Enablement

  • Lead evaluation, selection, and implementation of data governance and data product platforms — including data catalogs, lineage tools, data quality frameworks, and metadata management systems.
  • Partner with Security Architecture and Enterprise Architecture to design and deploy integrated data governance and data security controls across on-premises and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP).
  • Modernize automated data scanning, tagging, and classification capabilities to improve governance efficiency and strengthen data loss prevention (DLP) outcomes.
  • Assess and invest in ML/AI-based governance approaches — including automated lineage discovery, anomaly detection, synthetic data generation, and privacy-enhancing techniques.
  • Maintain strategic awareness of the evolving data technology landscape; drive buy/build/partner decisions that balance innovation with cost discipline.

Team Building & Cross-Functional Collaboration

  • Build, mentor, and continuously develop a high-performing team spanning data governance specialists, data product managers, data stewards, and program managers.
  • Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and data literacy, upskilling the broader organization and democratizing access to trusted, well-governed data.
  • Define team operating models, OKRs, and performance metrics that demonstrate the strategic and operational value of the data governance and product functions.

Required Qualifications

Experience

  • 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in data governance, data management, data product management, or data strategy roles within large, complex, matrixed environments.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and operationalizing data governance frameworks or data product programs from concept through enterprise adoption, with measurable business outcomes.
  • Proven track record managing cross-functional technology programs including platform implementations, organizational change initiatives, and regulatory compliance efforts on time and within budget.
  • Hands-on experience with enterprise data governance tools including data catalogs, lineage platforms, data quality frameworks, and metadata management systems.
  • Prior experience in healthcare, consumer goods, financial services, or similarly regulated large industries preferred.

Technical & Domain Knowledge

  • Deep expertise in data governance principles, data architecture, data quality management, master data management, and enterprise data modeling.
  • Strong understanding of cloud data platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and hybrid governance architectures spanning on-premises and cloud-native environments.
  • Working knowledge of data protection strategies including encryption, tokenization, data masking, data loss prevention, and role-based access control design.
  • Familiarity with ML/AI-based governance approaches: automated metadata tagging, anomaly detection, synthetic data, and differential privacy techniques.
  • Solid command of global data privacy regulations including HIPAA, CCPA/CPRA, GDPR, and related legislative frameworks.
  • Experience with data product management practices product lifecycle management, data SLA definition, data consumption patterns, and developer experience design.

Leadership & Influence

  • Proven ability to lead, inspire, and develop high-performing technical and cross-functional teams; creates clear career pathways and builds organizational bench strength.
  • Strong executive presence and communication skills — able to translate complex data and governance concepts into clear narratives for senior business and IT stakeholders.
  • Demonstrated ability to drive enterprise-wide change in matrixed organizations through influence, coalition-building, and stakeholder management without direct authority.
  • Analytical, data-driven decision-maker with a track record of translating strategy into executable roadmaps and delivering measurable results.
  • Bachelor's degree required in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.

Leadership Competencies

  • Results Driver: Sets ambitious goals and holds self and team accountable. Translates governance strategy and product roadmaps into executable plans — tracking progress with rigor and delivering measurable operational and financial impact.
  • Strategic and Systems Thinker: Brings intellectual curiosity and market awareness. Proactively identify emerging governance technologies and data product practices, translating external trends into competitive organizational advantage. Understands interconnections across data, technology, processes, and people. Designs holistic governance frameworks and product architectures that scale and anticipate second-order enterprise effects.
  • Influential Collaborator: Builds trust across business and technology functions. Uses data to persuade, aligns diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, and navigates complex organizational dynamics with integrity
  • Talent Builder and Culture Shaper: Recruits, develops, and retains diverse, high-performing talent. Creates clear career pathways, coaches emerging leaders, and builds bench strength across the data product and governance organization.

Preferred Qualifications

  • Prior experience in healthcare, consumer goods, financial services, or similarly regulated large industries preferred.
  • Master's degree (MBA, MS in Data Science, Information Management, or related discipline) is strongly preferred.

The base pay for this position is

$149,300.00 – $298,700.00

In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.

JOB FAMILY:

IT Services & Solutions Delivery

DIVISION:

BTS Business Technology Services

LOCATION:

United States > Waukegan : J46

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS:

WORK SHIFT:

Standard

TRAVEL:

Yes, 15 % of the Time

MEDICAL SURVEILLANCE:

Not Applicable

SIGNIFICANT WORK ACTIVITIES:

Continuous sitting for prolonged periods (more than 2 consecutive hours in an 8 hour day)

Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer of Minorities/Women/Individuals with Disabilities/Protected Veterans.

EEO is the Law link - English: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_English.pdf

EEO is the Law link - Espanol: http://webstorage.abbott.com/common/External/EEO_Spanish.pdf

From $25, paid onceGet the CV for this job

What happens when you press

One press. We do the rest.

  1. A CV for this posting

    Written against Abbott's own wording, from every piece of relevant proof in your profile.

  2. 25 readers review it

    Recruiter, hiring manager, skeptic and more read every draft, round after round. You get the best round.

    The review screen in CV Rocket: how each CV was read, round by round.

  3. We apply on Abbott's form

    Our application engine gets through the hardest forms there are. Where a question needs you, AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

    An application in CV Rocket: every answer filled in on the employer's form.

  4. Every reply, sorted

    Abbott's answer lands in your private mailbox, and we classify it on arrival: interview, question, rejection.

    The CV Rocket inbox: each employer reply classified as an interview, an action or a rejection.

  5. Reply with AI

    AI helps you write the email, checks it and sends it. We show you whether the recruiter read it.

  6. The interview in your calendar

    Full integration with your calendar. The invitation goes straight in.

    An interview invitation in the CV Rocket inbox, added to the candidate's calendar.
Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

Why it works

3×

more interviews than doing it yourself with ChatGPT.

ChatGPT writes a CV and never learns what happened to it. We see every reply. For each CV we know:

  • How it was written, and how the review scored it
  • When we applied, and how long after the posting went up
  • Which posting, which company, which city
  • Who got the interview, and who heard nothing

That is how we know which CVs get called.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

The numbers game

More applications. More interviews.

Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting and paid once. Send enough of them and the law of large numbers finds you the job.

Get the CV for this job
By hand5–10
With CV Rocket100
applications a day

Nearby

Live postings like this one

Same employer first, then the same role elsewhere.

Before you press

Straight answers

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.

What if my background isn't good enough?

We make the most of the background you have. The CV uses every piece of relevant proof your profile holds, and one of the 25 readers reads your whole profile and flags what the CV left out.

Do you really apply for me?

Yes, on the employer's own form, the hardest ones included. Where a question needs you, you answer it right there and AI suggests the best answer. Don't want us applying from our IP addresses? Use our Chrome extension: we apply straight from your own browser.

Is it a subscription?

No. You pay once per CV, from $25. Every application goes out with its own CV, written for that posting.

One job. One CV.
Paid once.

Pick the posting you want. We write for it, apply for you and catch the reply.

Get the CV for this job

From $25 per CV, paid once. No subscription.