AI Product Owner — Corporate Functions Transformation

Diamondback E&P LLC; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback Energy, through its external partner channel, seeks an AI Product Owner for Corporate Functions. You will lead end-to-end AI product lifecycles across Finance, Land, Legal, and HR, owning vision, backlog, and adoption while collaborating with AI engineering, governance, and business sponsors to realize measured value.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering solutions that improve processes, decision-making, and compliance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience supporting corporate functions in oil and gas or another regulated industry.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology, process improvement, or business transformation initiatives.
• Experience translating business needs into clear requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes.
• Experience working with enterprise business, data, or reporting systems.
• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, automation, data, or analytics products from concept through adoption.

Responsibilities

• Partner with stakeholders to understand business processes, user needs, data requirements, controls, and challenges, and identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI and automation opportunities based on business value, feasibility, risk, and strategic alignment.
• Own the business problem definition, product vision, target users and workflows, value hypothesis, roadmap, priorities, success measures, and expected business outcomes, partnering with business sponsors and the AI Value & Economics Lead to establish baseline performance and the approach for measuring realized outcomes before significant investment.
• Lead product discovery to validate the business problem, user needs, workflows, constraints, value hypothesis, and solution approaches before significant production investment, using rapid prototypes, workflow simulations, data exploration, user testing, vendor capability assessment, and other lightweight experiments to reduce uncertainty and inform product decisions.
• Translate business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, success criteria, acceptance criteria, and AI quality expectations.
• Manage the product backlog and make product scope and priority decisions; lead business validation and user acceptance testing; and hold product acceptance decision rights against defined requirements, acceptance criteria, user needs, and expected business outcomes.
• Partner with technology, data, security, governance, legal, and risk teams to deliver scalable solutions that meet responsible AI, confidentiality, and compliance requirements.
• Represent stakeholder needs, coordinate cross-functional dependencies, and support user readiness and adoption.
• Own post-launch product performance and continuous improvement by monitoring adoption, AI performance, business outcomes, realized value, user feedback, and relevant risk measures, and prioritize the changes needed to improve product outcomes.

Skills

Product ownership

Cross-functional leadership

Agile

AI/ML knowledge

Requirements translation

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

SAP

Workday

Enverus

Bloomberg

Snowflake

Power BI

Job description

Diamondback Energy, through its external partner channel, seeks an AI Product Owner for Corporate Functions. You will lead end-to-end AI product lifecycles across Finance, Land, Legal, and HR, owning vision, backlog, and adoption while collaborating with AI engineering, governance, and business sponsors to realize measured value.

The role emphasizes responsible AI, cross-functional collaboration, and delivering solutions that improve processes, decision-making, and compliance.