Senior Principal Product Manager, Data & AI Product Management

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The Senior Principal Product Manager, Data & AI Product Management reports to the VP, Data & AI Product Management and leads a portfolio of multiple products (including enhancements and new features). In this role, the Senior Principal Product Manager is accountable for driving customer and business value through the end-to-end ownership of product outcomes and ensuring alignment around clear OKRs across the portfolio and senior stakeholders. Operating within a modern product operating model, this role champions empowered teams with a clear product vision and a deep understanding of customer needs, using continuous discovery and evidence‑based, data-driven decision making to ensure solutions are valuable, usable, feasible, and viable. The Senior Principal Product Manager partners closely with engineering, design, data, and stakeholders to continuously discover, deliver, and iterate on solutions that drive measurable customer value and sustainable business impact. This leader ensures that Data & AI products are not only viable and differentiated in the marketplace, but also compliant with industry standards and responsive to evolving business needs. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: Owns and executes the product vision and strategy for a defined Data & AI product or portfolio, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities, business objectives, and customer needs, and shaping enterprise Data & AI product direction through strategic narratives and executive alignment. Translates strategic objectives into actionable plans for the product team, prioritizing initiatives based on business value, customer impact, and resource constraints, while defining portfolio-level prioritization principles, investment tradeoffs, and sequencing across competing demands. Manages product lifecycle activities from ideation through launch, adoption, and optimization, ensuring all stage gates and quality standards are met, and ensuring consistent lifecycle governance, adoption strategy, and value realization across releases. Partners with Data & AI Product Operations to define and report on Data & AI product values and ensure prioritization and roadmap decisions are grounded in validated customer and market evidence. Develops and maintains an outcome-focused product roadmap with clear milestones, dependencies, and timelines; regularly communicates progress, risks, and tradeoffs to stakeholders. Demonstrated people leadership capability (coaching, talent development, and performance management). Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing without authority and driving alignment across competing priorities Partners with Data & AI Product Discovery & Design to champion a customer-centric approach, engaging directly with customers and key stakeholders to gather insights, validate solutions, and ensure high satisfaction. Establishes and tracks product success and value metrics (OKRs) for the product area, monitoring performance pre- and post-launch and driving continuous improvement. Supports Data & AI Delivery Management in guiding the product team in agile delivery, participating in team ceremonies and ensuring best practices in backlog management, user story development, and iterative improvement. Collaborates with technical product and engineering partners to define and refine user stories, acceptance criteria, and use cases that articulate customer value and expected outcomes. Partners with engineering, design, data science, commercialization, sales, marketing, customer success, and implementation leaders to ensure shared goals, clarity of