AI Manager - Product Management

Diamondback Energy, Inc.; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback Energy, Inc. in Midland, Texas seeks an AI Manager - Product Management to lead and develop AI Product Owners. You will drive disciplined discovery, validate opportunities, and translate business problems into actionable product roadmaps and requirements.

You will partner with executives to ensure adoption, establish governance, and scale AI product management standards across the organization, delivering measurable business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• 10+ years of product management/leadership within a tech-intensive enterprise.
• 5+ years of people management with a proven ability to develop high-performing teams.
• Experience leading an enterprise product portfolio with multiple products or initiatives.
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and prioritization frameworks.
• Ability to balance strategic direction, delivery execution, stakeholder needs, and governance requirements.
• Experience establishing and managing KPIs to measure product and portfolio outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop AI Product Owners and product professionals.
• Set clear expectations for product judgment, discovery rigor, product definition, stakeholder engagement, outcome accountability, and standards across the team.
• Translate prioritized enterprise opportunities into product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized delivery plans.
• Ensure every AI product has a defined business problem, target users, success metrics, requirements, acceptance criteria, value hypothesis, and sponsor.
• Establish and scale AI-native validation practices across the product lifecycle from discovery to validation and post-launch adoption.
• Identify and manage product-level dependencies, delivery risks, and barriers to value realization across teams.
• Drive adoption by partnering with change management, training, and enablement teams; track value realization.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, MIS, or related field

Job description

AI Manager - Product Management

This role leads and develops AI Product Owners, establishes consistent product discovery and management practices, and ensures products are grounded in clearly defined business problems, user needs, success measures, and value hypotheses. Serving as a primary connection between business stakeholders and AI delivery teams, the manager drives disciplined discovery, rapid validation, product definition, business acceptance, adoption, and continuous improvement across the AI portfolio.

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop AI Product Owners and product professionals
• set clear expectations for product judgment, discovery rigor, product definition, stakeholder engagement, and outcome accountability, and hold consistent standards for product quality and product management discipline across the team
• Partner with business leaders, the AI Portfolio Lead, and AI leadership to translate prioritized enterprise opportunities into product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized delivery plans
• Ensure every AI product has a clearly defined business problem, target users and workflows, success measures, requirements, acceptance criteria, value hypothesis, and accountable business sponsor before progressing through significant investment, working with business sponsors, the AI Value & Economics Lead, and the AI Portfolio Lead to confirm the supporting evidence
• Establish and scale AI-native validation practices across the product lifecycle, from rapid prototyping, workflow simulation, data exploration, user testing, and vendor evaluation during discovery, through business validation and user acceptance testing against defined user needs, acceptance criteria, and expected business outcomes
• Identify and manage product-level dependencies, delivery risks, and barriers to value realization across business and technology teams
• Drive sustained adoption of AI products by partnering with business leaders, change management, training, and enablement teams, and hold Product Owners accountable for post-launch adoption, product performance, and continuous improvement using user feedback, usage data, business outcomes, and value realization insights
• Communicate portfolio performance, risks, investment needs, and realized value to senior leadership
• Establish and continuously improve Diamondback's AI product management standards, methods, tools, and templates while preserving flexibility across products and business domains and build product management capability across the organization so business stakeholders understand their role in problem definition, product decisions, validation, adoption, and value realization

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field
• 10+ years of experience in product management, product leadership, digital delivery, or a related function within a technology-intensive, enterprise environment
• 5+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to develop high-performing teams
• Experience leading an enterprise product portfolio with multiple concurrent products or initiatives
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and prioritization frameworks
• Demonstrated ability to balance strategic direction, delivery execution, stakeholder needs, and governance requirements
• Experience establishing and managing KPIs to measure product and portfolio outcomes

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in oil and gas, energy, or another asset-intensive industrial sector
• Experience deploying generative AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics products in production environments
• Working knowledge of AI lifecycle management, responsible AI practices, and enterprise product operating models
• Experience establishing or scaling a product management function, portfolio governance model, or AI product capability
• Experience applying AI-enabled tools and rapid prototyping techniques during product discovery and solution validation

Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Midland, Texas focused on the acquisition, development, exploration, and exploitation of unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas.

Diamondback is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. Diamondback provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, veteran or disability status, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other status protected by law.

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