AI Manager - Product Management

Diamondback Energy; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback Energy in Texas is seeking an AI Manager – Product Management to lead the AI product portfolio, translate priorities into clearly defined AI products, and coach AI Product Owners.

You will drive discovery and validation, partner with executives to set roadmaps and KPIs, ensure business problems and success measures are defined, and enable adoption across Diamondback’s AI initiatives. This role builds governance and disciplined practices to maximize value realization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, MIS, or related field.
• 10+ years in product management or digital delivery in technology-intensive environments.
• 5+ years of people management leading high-performing teams.
• Experience leading an enterprise product portfolio with multiple concurrent products or initiatives.
• Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, and prioritization frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and develop AI Product Owners and product professionals; set expectations for product judgment, discovery rigor, product definition, stakeholder engagement, and outcome accountability.
• Partner with business leaders and AI leadership to translate prioritized enterprise opportunities into product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and delivery plans.
• Ensure every AI product has a clearly defined business problem, target users and workflows, success measures, requirements, acceptance criteria, value hypothesis, and sponsor before significant investment.
• Establish and scale AI-native validation practices across the product lifecycle from discovery to user acceptance testing.
• Identify and manage product dependencies, delivery risks, and barriers to value realization; drive adoption and measure outcomes.

Skills

Product management

AI leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Roadmapping

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Engineering/MIS

Job description

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The AI Manager – Product Management leads Diamondback Energy’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) product management function, translating business priorities and opportunities into well-defined AI products that deliver measurable business outcomes. 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

Include but are not limited to

• 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 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. Diamondback participates in E-Verify. Learn more about E-Verify.