AI Product Owner — Oil & Gas Operations

Diamondback E&P LLC; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback E&P LLC in Texas seeks an AI Product Owner - Engineering to represent AI product outcomes across Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing and field workflows. You own the product lifecycle from discovery through deployment, balancing business value, feasibility, and risk.

You will partner with AI Engineering & Delivery and other tech teams to deliver responsible, compliant AI that improves operational efficiency, field execution, and commercial performance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field.
• 5+ years of experience in oil and gas operations or closely related areas.
• Experience leading cross-functional technology and business transformation initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing, and related stakeholders to understand workflows, user needs, data requirements, controls, and operational challenges, and identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI and automation opportunities based on business value, technical feasibility, risk, data readiness, 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 potential 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 test assumptions.
• 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, risk, and operational subject matter experts to deliver scalable solutions that meet responsible AI, confidentiality, data quality, and compliance requirements.
• Represent Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, and Marketing stakeholder needs; coordinate cross-functional dependencies with Geoscience, Reservoir Engineering, Finance, and other business functions; 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

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional leadership

Data analysis

AI fluency

Requirements writing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field

Tools

Spotfire

WellView

Ignition

Snowflake

XSPOC

Python

Power BI

Job description

Diamondback E&P LLC in Texas seeks an AI Product Owner - Engineering to represent AI product outcomes across Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing and field workflows. You own the product lifecycle from discovery through deployment, balancing business value, feasibility, and risk.

You will partner with AI Engineering & Delivery and other tech teams to deliver responsible, compliant AI that improves operational efficiency, field execution, and commercial performance.