https://davidohnstad.com/ Senior Data Product Manager | AI, SaaS & Data Strategy | Duluth, MN Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:22:50 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-manager-salary-negotiation-mistake/#comment-791 Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:00:14 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=446#comment-791 […] I had no structural authority to influence. This is the thing most companies get wrong about data product manager salary negotiation: they pay you for accountability but deny you the authority to execute. That gap doesn’t […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-management-analytics-failure/#comment-787 Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:44 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=309#comment-787 […] “they’re building internal tools, not revenue features.” That logic ignores that 82% of analytics initiatives fail specifically because teams treat data products as internal tooling rather than products with real […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-manager-org-structure-reporting-2/#comment-784 Tue, 01 Sep 2026 11:07:36 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=245#comment-784 […] to evaluate feasibility, then add technical skills as a lens to sharpen prioritization. Understanding how reporting structures impact data product success also helps clarify where organizational design matters more than technical […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-prioritization-competing-stakeholders/#comment-776 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:32:34 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=222#comment-776 […] For more on this topic, see data product prioritization stakeholder management. […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-manager-org-structure-reporting-2/#comment-766 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:16:30 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=245#comment-766 […] Data Product Manager Org Structure: Why Reporting Lines Fail covers the structural challenges of where data PMs sit in the organization—whether they report to engineering, product, analytics, or a dedicated data office. But reporting structure alone does not solve governance. David Ohnstad has seen data PMs report directly to the Chief Data Officer and still lack decision authority because governance was never formalized. […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-management-myths-debunked/#comment-765 Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:16:13 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=406#comment-765 […] opens but not decision changes, and who mistake stakeholder consensus for validated demand. The data product management myths persist because the underlying skill gaps are invisible until a product launches and nobody uses it […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-adoption-dashboard-failure/#comment-755 Mon, 24 Aug 2026 09:21:03 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=246#comment-755 […] Data product debt doesn’t announce itself. It accumulates silently while your dashboards keep refreshing and your pipelines keep running. You discover it when a critical stakeholder stops using your product, when a downstream team builds a duplicate solution, or when an executive asks a question your data product should answer but can’t. By then, you’re not fixing a small issue. You’re recovering trust. For more on this, see Why dashboards fail without strategy. […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/non-technical-pms-data-products/#comment-741 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:49:58 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=407#comment-741 […] is why understanding non-technical product managers data products challenges matters—the technical complexity is real, but the organizational complexity is what […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.com/data-product-management-analytics-failure/#comment-740 Sun, 23 Aug 2026 03:49:29 +0000 https://davidohnstad.com/?p=309#comment-740 […] with PMs who can write elegant schemas but cannot explain why the product matters. As explored in Data Product Management: Why 82% of Analytics Fail, the root cause of most analytics failures is not bad technology—it is bad problem […]

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