Fractional data product manager · Data consultant
Fractional data product manager for B2B SaaS
Warehouse strategy, embedded analytics, AI analytics, and data governance that executives can run. Joe Kawa is a fractional data product manager and data consultant with 9+ years shipping analytics products for companies from Fortune 50 to teams of a handful of people.
Based in Omaha, NE · Remote across the United States
$500k+
Yearly analytics cost removed
Sunsetting legacy warehouses and reporting tools
$1M+
Pipeline in 9 months
Zero-to-one reporting integration product
200k
Users on embedded analytics
Across 14k customers and 7 product lines
100k+
Daily active users reached
Dashboards shipped into four SaaS products
Who hires a fractional data PM
For hiring organizations that need analytics leadership this quarter
B2B SaaS product and data leaders
You need a data product manager who has already run warehouse strategy, embedded analytics, and AI features across a suite — and can do it without waiting on a nine-month hiring cycle.
Operators consolidating a messy analytics stack
Legacy warehouses, overlapping BI tools, and metric arguments are burning budget. Joe has retired that stack, reduced cost by $500k a year, and replaced it with governed, customer-facing analytics.
Teams that want AI analytics that finance will trust
Chat on top of ungoverned data is a liability. Joe pairs AI interfaces with data contracts and metric workflows so self-service answers match what the business already believes.
Services
Data product leadership, on a fractional cadence
Fractional data product manager
Own the analytics roadmap without a full-time hire. Joe sits with your executives, engineering, and GTM teams to set strategy, sequence work, and ship.
Data consultant
A senior data consultant for B2B SaaS teams that need a clear-eyed assessment, a 90-day plan, or a partner who can still stay through delivery.
Warehouse and embedded analytics
Snowflake programs, reporting integrations, and in-product dashboards that sales can use and customers will actually open.
AI analytics productization
Question-and-answer chat, AI report builders, and data summarization — shipped as product, not as a demo.
Selected outcomes
Proof from the seat, not from a pitch deck
Data governance
Governance that makes metrics — and AI — trustworthy
Joe establishes data governance best practices with data contracts, shared metric definitions, and workflows that keep warehouse, reporting, and AI self-service consistent. At Daxko, that discipline streamlined metric development and made AI-enabled analytics possible.
How Joe establishes data governanceAI analytics without data contracts is a demo. Governance is what turns it into a product finance will quote.
FAQ
Answers hiring teams ask first
- What is a fractional data product manager?
- A fractional data product manager is a senior product leader who owns data analytics strategy, roadmap, and delivery on a part-time or scoped basis. Organizations hire a fractional data PM when they need executive-level product leadership for warehouses, reporting, embedded analytics, or AI analytics without a full-time headcount.
- When should a company hire a fractional data product manager?
- Hire a fractional data product manager when analytics is a growth lever but you do not yet need — or cannot fill — a full-time data PM: a warehouse migration, embedded dashboards across products, a partner reporting obligation, or an AI analytics launch. Typical engagements last three to six months and run 10–20 hours per week.
- What data governance best practices does Joe Kawa establish?
- Joe establishes data governance through data contracts, shared metric definitions, and workflows that keep warehouse, reporting, and AI self-service consistent. At Daxko, those practices streamlined metric development, improved data consistency, and supported AI-enabled self-service analytics.
Looking for a fractional data product manager?
Send a short note on the warehouse, reporting, governance, or AI analytics problem you need owned. Joe replies to hiring organizations directly.