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As a Principal Product Manager, AI & Data, you’ll be senior owner for data and AI solutions—bridging client business goals with modern data platforms and products.
Core Responsibilities
- Own solution vision and roadmap for client data and AI platforms/products: align strategies to business objectives, identify innovation opportunities, and guide clients toward higher data maturity and data‑driven decision making.
- Be the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to executive and senior stakeholders—clarifying objectives, shaping KPIs/success metrics, and ensuring outcomes map to client value and ROI.
- Translate business needs into actionable technical direction: work with architects, engineers, analysts, and change leaders to define solution scope, requirements, and a product‑based approach to data investments (platform, products, applications, services).
- Lead planning and execution using agile practices: coordinate cross-functional teams, timelines, and dependencies; manage risk, scope, and trade‑offs across multiple concurrent initiatives.
- Establish and operationalize KPIs for business, customer, product, and teams—track performance, communicate status, and drive course corrections with data.
- Ensure quality, adoption, and continuous improvement of solutions through testing, validation, stakeholder feedback, and iteration; connect solution changes to organizational change management needs.
- Support business development by shaping solution narratives, contributing to proposals, and participating in client pitches to showcase phData’s capabilities and approach.
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data, analytics, and AI; share insights to elevate client strategies and internal practice maturity.
Qualifications
- Extensive experience in product management roles focused on data, analytics, or AI platforms and products.
- Consulting experience with external clients, managing multiple priorities and stakeholders, including sales.
- Strong data and AI literacy:
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms and complementary tooling.
- Understanding of data modeling/semantic modeling, analytics, and how AI/ML applications solve business problems.
- Familiarity with data and AI architecture and governance concepts.
- Proven ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams (technical and non‑technical) in an agile environment—including multiple products managers and product portfolios.
- Demonstrated strength in client relationship management:
- Building trusted relationships with executive/c-level stakeholders.
- Translating complex business needs into practical technical solutions.
- Communicating complex concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences.
- Strong grasp of agile and product development life cycles, including backlog management, iterative delivery, and KPI‑driven decision making.
- Experience working within change-heavy transformations (digital, data, analytics, AI), with an understanding of change management principles and how to drive adoption of new platforms and products.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills; able to manage multiple initiatives at once and stay oriented to the “big picture” under pressure.
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including crafting and delivering compelling solution and strategy narratives.
- Proficiency with project and product management tools and AI‑enabled execution tooling.
- Willingness to travel as required by clients.
phData celebrates diversity and is committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. Our approach helps us to build a winning team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and abilities. So, regardless of how your diversity expresses itself, you can find a home here at phData. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, veteran status, genetic information, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. If you would like to request an accommodation due to a disability, please contact us at People Operations.
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