Verify that requirements from approved PDPs actually ship correctly in each release.
Flag gaps, regressions, or scope drift before launch; support go/no-go decisions.
Identify systemic defect patterns and propose process fixes.

Search, Enrichment & Metadata Operations:

Triage tagging/classification issues, chase metadata gaps, and perform data quality cleanup.
Monitor search quality issues and drive improvement of relevance/ranking.
Spot and escalate systemic metadata/enrichment quality issues across the catalog.

Platform & Technical Depth:

Partner with engineering on uptime, incident triage, and architecture discussions.
Navigate complex multi-system data landscape and reason about cross-system impact.
Understand underlying architecture (APIs, data flows, pipelines) for credible technical conversations.

Stakeholder, Strategy & Backlog Support:

Serve as point of contact for researchers and end-users reporting data/search issues.
Contribute to roadmap and prioritization with informed trade-off perspectives.
Maintain backlog hygiene, documentation, and produce communication materials for feature announcements.