---
title: "Managing Data as Product : Office Hours with Philip Zelitchenko"
description: "Join ZoomInfo VP Philip Zelitchenko to learn how modern data teams operate like software engineering orgs. Key insights on hiring, systems \u0026 measuring data team success."
categories: ["office hours","data"]
keywords: ["ZoomInfo","data management","data as product","software engineering practices","data team success","hiring data teams","data systems","data product development","data engineering","Philip Zelitchenko"]
ai_summary: "Learn how to manage data teams like software engineering organizations with insights from ZoomInfo's VP Philip Zelitchenko."
date: 2023-11-29
lastmod: 2026-07-28
canonical_url: https://www.tomtunguz.com/managing-data-as-product/
author: "Tomasz Tunguz"
---

![image](https://res.cloudinary.com/dzawgnnlr/image/upload/s6eqnyumkfihd7bbprra.png)

On December 14th at 9.30 am Pacific, Office Hours will host [Philip Zelitchenko](https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipzelichenko/), VP of Data at ZoomInfo to discuss Managing Data as Product.

Recently, Philip shared his management techniques to run a data team like a standard product software development function with some key nuances.

I asked him to join us on Office Hours to share his perspective because we believe [data and software engineering practices converge](https://tomtunguz.com/data-engineering/).

We will cover : 
- why data teams are operating as software engineering teams 
- how to do this well both by hiring the right people & implementing systems
- how to judge the effectiveness of the team & explain the benefits to the company 

As AI and data products become an increasingly valuable component of nearly every business,  data teams will mature to full-fledged engineering  organizations.

If you’re interested to attend, [please register here](https://gatsby.events/rsvp/office-hours-with-philip-zelitchenko/theory-ventures/register)
. As always, submit questions through the registration form & I’ll weave them into the conversation.

I look forward to welcoming Philip to Office Hours!