We're seeking a strategic Director of AI Product Transformation to lead a portfolio of AI-enabled products for an enterprise program. This role combines product strategy, executive-level governance, and measurable business impact, with a strong focus on adoption, experimentation, and value realization across products and teams.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the strategy and roadmap for a portfolio of AI-enabled products, prioritizing opportunities based on business impact and market potential.
- Partner closely with engineering and AI/ML teams to turn product strategy into delivered capabilities while staying accountable for outcomes.
- Lead executive governance cadences, including recurring performance reviews, roadmap discussions, and investment tradeoff conversations with senior stakeholders.
- Build structured reporting materials used by leadership to monitor program health, progress, and value delivered.
- Drive product-led growth initiatives focused on activation, adoption, expansion, and overall value realization.
- Design and evaluate experiments, controlled rollouts, and A/B tests to measure causal impact and quantify business results.
- Align product priorities with go-to-market and business teams to improve adoption in real-world workflows.
- Serve as a trusted advisor to client and business stakeholders, translating complex challenges into clear action plans with defined tradeoffs.
- Lead and coordinate product managers, UX/UI leads, and matrixed partners toward shared outcomes without directly owning technical delivery.
- Represent the program confidently in high-visibility discussions and executive forums.
Skills
- 12+ years of product management experience, including senior leadership responsibility for an AI-enabled or data-driven product portfolio.
- Experience owning growth, adoption, retention, or revenue-related metrics for digital or AI products.
- Strong executive communication skills with experience presenting to senior leadership and answering detailed questions with clarity and confidence.
- Background in consulting, professional services, or systems integration, with experience running executive governance processes.
- Ability to develop product strategy, manage priorities, and communicate decisions in a structured, business-focused way.
- Experience working across cross-functional teams to influence outcomes without direct ownership of all delivery functions.
- Hands-on understanding of analytics, experimentation, and performance measurement.
- Familiarity with enterprise AI/ML platforms and cloud environments.
- Strong presentation, reporting, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity and shifting priorities.
Preferred Skills
- Experience in the telecommunications industry, especially with telecom-related platforms or workflows.
- Exposure to enterprise LLM tools such as Vertex AI, Claude, or similar technologies.
- Experience with Google Cloud Platform or comparable cloud infrastructure.
- Knowledge of AI/ML evaluation, monitoring, and observability tools.
- Proficiency with SQL, dashboarding, and experimentation platforms.
- Experience preparing executive-ready governance decks and board-level updates.
- Advanced degree such as a master's or MBA.
- Familiarity with CRM, sales enablement, or marketing enablement systems.
- Prior experience with a recognized consulting firm or specialized advisory organization.
Horizontal is committed to fostering a workplace where diversity, equity, and inclusion are valued and supported. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and experiences and are dedicated to creating an environment where everyone can contribute and thrive.
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Please apply through this online posting or by visiting our Job Board at Applications will be accepted for 4 weeks. For those that join the team, we offer competitive compensation and benefits including medical, dental, vision, and retirement. Check out all we have to offer and how you can become part of the Horizontal Talent Team. The pay range for this role is $84 - $121 per hour based on qualifications and experience.
