AI Technical Product Lead

Publicis Groupe; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 17,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Flexible schedule

Paid time off

Wellness program

Job summary

Publicis Sapient is seeking an Associate Director-level AI Product Manager with deep experience in renewable energy and solar. You will own the AI product vision, roadmap, and backlog, leading cross-functional teams from discovery through scaled adoption.

You will articulate complex AI concepts to senior stakeholders and ensure responsible AI practice. You will collaborate with data scientists, engineers, and operators to define objectives, data needs, and success metrics, delivering measurable

Qualifications

• Senior PM or product lead in complex enterprise environments.
• Experience in renewable energy, solar, or utilities.
• Proven AI product lifecycle from discovery to production and adoption.
• Strong AI and technical fluency; comfortable with ML concepts and cloud services.
• Ability to translate technical implications into business decisions for stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value AI opportunities across solar and renewable energy value chain.
• Define product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog.
• Lead discovery across utility-scale, commercial, and distributed solar workflows.
• Collaborate with data science and engineering teams on model objectives and data needs.
• Drive AI product experimentation from problem framing to deployment and adoption.

Skills

Senior PM

Renewable energy

AI product mgmt

Executive storytelling

Education

CSPO certification

Tools

Azure Cloud

AWS

GCP

Job description

Company description

Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting, and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity. United by our core values and our purpose of helping people thrive in the brave pursuit of next, our 20,000+ people in 53 offices around the world combine experience across technology, data sciences, consulting, and customer obsession to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value.

Overview

Publicis Sapient is looking for an Associate Director-level AI Product Manager to join our Product Management craft, focused on renewable energy and solar.This role sits at the intersection of clean-energy business strategy, artificial intelligence, data, and engineering. The AI Product Manager will identify and prioritize high-value AI opportunities across the solar and renewable energy value chain, translate business and user needs into a clear product vision and roadmap, and lead multidisciplinary teams from discovery and experimentation through scaled adoption. The ability to speak credibly with renewable energy leaders, data scientists, engineers, operators, and client stakeholders is essential.

Your Impact

• Partner with solar and renewable energy clients, product leaders, operators, data scientists, machine learning engineers, software engineers, architects, designers, and strategists to identify business problems that can be solved responsibly with AI.

• Own the AI product vision, strategy, roadmap, and prioritized backlog for solutions supporting areas such as solar asset performance, generation forecasting, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, energy trading and optimization, customer acquisition, project development, field operations, and grid integration.

• Lead discovery across utility-scale, commercial and industrial, and distributed solar workflows, converting customer and operational needs into product hypotheses, epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria, data requirements, model requirements, and non-functional requirements.

• Evaluate where machine learning, generative AI, computer vision, forecasting, optimization, and intelligent automation can create measurable value, while distinguishing true AI opportunities from problems better solved through workflow, analytics, or platform improvements.

• Collaborate directly with data science and engineering teams to define model objectives, training and inference data needs, evaluation metrics, human-in-the-loop workflows, integrations, APIs, cloud architecture, monitoring, and production-readiness requirements.

• Drive AI product experimentation from problem framing and prototype development through pilot, validation, deployment, adoption, and continuous improvement.

• Translate complex AI concepts, model outputs, uncertainty, limitations, and technical trade-offs into clear business decisions for senior client and operational stakeholders.

• Define measurable product and model outcomes, including business value, user adoption, forecast accuracy, reliability, operational efficiency, model performance, safety, and responsible AI controls.

• Build data and feedback strategies that improve product performance over time, including data quality, labeling, lineage, access, governance, model monitoring, drift detection, and retraining considerations.

• Embed responsible AI and product risk management throughout the lifecycle, addressing explainability, privacy, security, bias, reliability, regulatory considerations, and appropriate human oversight.

• Facilitate product discovery, roadmap, technical design, model review, and stakeholder decision sessions across product, data, engineering, architecture, UX, operations, commercial, and client teams.

• Build trusted relationships with senior renewable energy stakeholders and influence investment, prioritization, and adoption decisions without formal authority.

Qualifications

• Experience operating at a senior Product Manager, AI Product Manager, Product Owner, or similar product leadership level in complex enterprise environments.

• Demonstrated experience in renewable energy, solar, energy transition, utilities, or adjacent clean-energy markets, with an understanding of industry business models, operational workflows, data, assets, and technology ecosystems.

• Proven experience taking AI, machine learning, advanced analytics, or data products from discovery and experimentation into production and measurable business adoption.

• Strong AI and technical fluency. You do not need to be a data scientist or software engineer, but you must be comfortable discussing machine learning and generative AI concepts, model lifecycle, data pipelines, cloud services, APIs, integrations, system architecture, MLOps, evaluation, monitoring, and technical dependencies.

• Ability to work with data scientists and engineers to define model and product requirements, challenge solution designs, ask meaningful technical questions, and translate technical implications into business impact and decision points.

• Understanding of AI product evaluation, including the use of offline and online metrics, benchmarks, experimentation, user feedback, operational KPIs, and business outcomes.

• Working knowledge of responsible AI principles, data governance, privacy, security, explainability, model risk, and human-in-the-loop design.

• Hands-on experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, and launch or adoption plans.

• Experience working across multidisciplinary teams that may include renewable energy subject matter experts, operations, engineering, architecture, data science, data engineering, QA, UX/design, legal, security, and business stakeholders.

• Proven ability to prioritize competing demands, manage ambiguity, facilitate decisions, and secure stakeholder alignment in a fast-evolving technology environment.

• Executive-level communication and storytelling skills, with the ability to communicate credibly with senior business leaders and deeply technical teams.

• Comfort working with financials, KPIs, product analytics, and value realization measures to guide prioritization and investment decisions.

Set Yourself Apart With

• Experience with solar development, photovoltaic asset management, energy forecasting, distributed energy resources, battery energy storage, virtual power plants, energy markets, grid operations, or renewable energy trading.

• Experience developing AI use cases involving time-series forecasting, predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, optimization, computer vision, geospatial data, digital twins, or generative AI for renewable energy workflows.

• Familiarity with renewable energy and solar data sources and platforms, such as SCADA, weather data, irradiance data, smart-meter data, asset performance management systems, GIS, market data, and energy management systems.

• Experience with cloud AI/data ecosystems such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud, and modern MLOps, analytics, and data-platform practices.

• Prior consulting experience delivering AI-enabled or technology-enabled transformation for energy, utilities, or renewable energy clients.

• AI product management, cloud, product, or Agile certification, such as Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO), SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, Micros

Additional information

Salary Range: $17,000 - $200,000

The range shown represents a grouping of relevant ranges currently in use at Publicis Sapient. Actual range for this position may differ, depending on location and specific skillset required for the work.

An inclusive workplace that promotes diversity and collaboration.

• Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Flexibility to support work-life balance.
• Comprehensive health benefits for you and your family.
• Generous paid leave and holidays.
• Wellness program and employee assistance.

As part of our dedication to an inclusive and diverse workforce, Publicis Sapient is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity without regard for race, color, national origin, ethnicity, gender, protected veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or religion. We are also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us at [e-mail]