Product Manager- WorldCat
Core
Owns development and delivery of OCLC's data ingest and enrichment services and the integration of WorldCat data across products, advancing modernization of data infrastructure to create an entity-first semantic data layer.
Role type
Senior Product Manager (Data & Semantic Web)
Builds
Data ingest pipelines, data enrichment mechanisms, and interoperability services for WorldCat.
Domain
Library services, bibliographic metadata, linked data, and semantic web technologies.
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Product strategy and planning, market analysis, roadmap development, cross-functional leadership, AI integration in workflows, linked data schemas (RDF, BIBFRAME, schema.org), ontology design, SPARQL, product lifecycle management.
Preferred skills
Library science background, library management systems experience, leading cross-functional workgroups, knowledge of OCLC products.
Technologies
RDF, BIBFRAME, schema.org, ontologies, SPARQL, AI/ML tools.
Responsibilities
Oversees market analysis and develops product strategy and business cases for WorldCat; assesses new technology to improve features and scale platform capabilities; produces and maintains the product roadmap; collaborates with development on release plans and finance on budgets; provides leadership to cross-functional product workgroups; defines user personas and generates market/sector white papers.
Seniority
Mid-level to Senior, hands-on IC with strategic planning duties.
