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# Associate Product Manager (Data) - 1072 (Remote) at Lightcast

- **Company:** Lightcast
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-10-09
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/economicmodeling/828a864d-6dd2-43d8-8b01-bfdaaad13b27

## Job description

Important information before applying: Location: This position is remote; however, Lightcast can only employ individuals who live and work in states where the company is authorized to operate. At this time, we cannot employ individuals residing or working in the following states: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming. Work Authorization: To respect your time, we cannot provide employment visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Before applying, please confirm that you are authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

As an Associate Product Manager (Data), you will support the delivery of customer-facing data products. Working closely with Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams, you will support product execution, data platform operations, governance, and launches to ensure Lightcast data is reliable, compliant, and easy for customers to access and use. This early-career role is designed for someone looking to build technical product management expertise and grow into increased ownership over time.

Lightcast does not offer visa sponsorship now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship

Major Responsibilities:

- Build an understanding of customer use cases, Lightcast data products, platform integrations, and how customers consume and share data

- Support backlog management by translating requirements into epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria and helping engineering teams deliver against roadmap commitments

- Support data contracts, including schemas, versioning, deprecation processes, and customer migration paths

- Monitor data quality, including freshness, null values, and duplicates, and help resolve issues that impact reliability

- Support product launches through changelogs, migration notes, documentation, internal enablement, incident triage, and root cause analysis (RCA)

- Support product launches by contributing to changelogs, migration notes, documentation, and internal enablement

- Help monitor data quality and flag issues with freshness, null values, and duplicates, ensuring high standards of customer reliability and trust.

Education and Experience:

- 1–2 years of experience in product, data, analytics, or a related field

- Exposure to modern data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or BigQuery, including sharing models, permissions, or listings

- SQL and modern data concepts

- Familiarity with data quality, governance, and security concepts

- Experience with agile methodologies, backlog management, and roadmap execution

- Strong technical writing skills, including experience developing user stories, acceptance criteria, and product documentation

- Excellent written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to collaborate effectively across Engineering, Data, Legal, Security, and GTM teams

- Interest in building reliable, user-friendly data products and developing technical product management expertise

Lightcast is a global leader in labor market insights, headquartered in Moscow, ID (US), with offices in the United Kingdom, Europe, and India.  We work with partners across six continents to help drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, our institutions, companies, and communities.

Lightcast is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and does not discriminate on the basis of federally protected statuses. Lightcast has always been, and always will be, committed to diversity of thought and unique perspectives. We seek dynamic professionals from all backgrounds to join our teams, and we encourage our employees to bring their authentic, original, and best selves to work.

## About Lightcast

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Lightcast (formerly Emsi Burning Glass) provides the world’s most comprehensive labor market intelligence by transforming job postings, professional profiles, and government data into actionable insights for businesses, educators, and governments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (growth stage, no recent funding disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Moscow, Idaho, United States
- **Founded**: 2000
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company was originally Emsi; merged with Burning Glass Technologies)

## Core Business
- **Primary industries**: Labor Market Analytics, Workforce Intelligence, HR Technology, Economic Development
- **Target customers**: B2B – enterprises, government agencies, educational institutions, workforce boards, and economic development organizations
- **Mission/Purpose**: “Drive economic prosperity and mobility by providing the insights needed to build and develop our people, institutions, companies, and communities.” (source: [lightcast.io](https://lightcast.io))

## Products & Services
- **Lightcast Data Platform**: SaaS platform offering interactive maps, graphs, and dashboards to explore labor market trends, skills demand, and workforce gaps.
- **APIs & Data Feeds**: Programmatic access to the world’s largest labor market database covering 165+ countries, 3B+ job postings, and 1.2B career profiles.
- **Consulting Services**: Custom research projects and strategic advisory from a team of data scientists and economists.
- **Beyond The Buzz (AI Skills Disruption Matrix™)**: Proprietary tool and research framework to analyze AI’s impact on skills and workforce strategy.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company)
- **Key Metric**: 521 employees (+12.8% YoY growth), 42,653 LinkedIn followers, recognized in TIME’s 2026 America’s Top WorkTech Companies
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: Not publicly listed; clients include top universities, Fortune 500 firms, and government agencies; cited regularly in NY Times, WSJ, Forbes, CNBC
- **Growth Signals**: 17 active job postings (up 325% YoY); acquired Gazelle (2023) to expand data capabilities; expanding into new geographies (10 countries, including India, UK, Italy, Canada)

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched data breadth**: Over 3 billion job postings, 1.2 billion career profiles, and 100+ government sources across 165 countries.
- **Proprietary AI & taxonomies**: Advanced natural language processing and human-expert refinement to structure and standardize labor market data.
- **25+ years of experience**: Pioneer in collecting and analyzing labor market information at scale.
- **Trusted authority**: Regularly featured in top-tier media and used by policymakers and institutions worldwide.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI & Skills Transformation**: Leading research on how AI is reshaping skills demand, with tools like the AI Skills Disruption Matrix.
- **Education & Workforce Alignment**: Deepening partnerships with universities, governments, and workforce organizations to improve talent pipelines.
- **Global Expansion**: Strengthening presence in Europe, India, and other key markets.
- **Product Innovation**: Investing in data-driven decision-making tools for both corporate and public sector clients.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Mission-driven environment focused on impact, innovation, and meaningful work. Emphasizes intellectual rigor and collaboration.
- **Remote/Hybrid**: Many roles are remote (US and global); offices in Moscow (ID), UK, Europe, and India. Distributed team across 10 countries.
- **Diverse Hiring Areas**: Actively recruiting for Sales, Product & Engineering, Data Science & Analytics, Corporate Functions, and Leadership roles.
- **Growth Opportunity**: 12.8% headcount growth; employees are given autonomy to own research agendas and drive cross-functional projects.
- **Notable Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but the company uses AI to support hiring (transparent about it); offers continuous learning through cutting-edge labor market research.

## Sources
1. [lightcast.io](https://lightcast.io/)
2. [lightcast.io – About](https://lightcast.io/en)
3. [LinkedIn – Lightcast](https://www.linkedin.com/company/lightcastdata)
4. [Careers – Future Opportunities](https://jobs.lever.co/economicmodeling/69c5168b-6802-4936-963a-99615957c412)
5. [Careers – Principal Economist](https://jobs.lever.co/economicmodeling/383e7c18-24e8-4b5e-a1e5-05fc150bfd65)

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