Associate Principal, Data Application & Insights

Vizient, Inc.; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 135,000 - 237,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Benefits package

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a seasoned product and platform leader to drive multi-project execution and end-to-end development of applications and platforms.

You will ensure alignment with VizTech standards, manage escalations, and lead agile ceremonies while optimizing resources and reporting on key metrics to stakeholders. The role requires extensive experience in product management, platform leadership, and AI-driven product strategy, with a focus on delivering scalable developer platforms and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of relevant experience in product management and platform leadership.
• Experience with data/AI products and enterprise architecture-aligned strategy.
• Experience delivering AI-first software and developer platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage five or more concurrent projects ensuring timelines and budgets.
• Lead end-to-end development of applications/platforms following VizTech practices.
• Serve as escalation point and remove roadblocks.
• Oversee Team Health Assessments to drive team improvement.
• Ensure Agile practices, ceremonies, and team agreements are in place.
• Collaborate on resource allocation and maintain internal resourcing tool.
• Support Product Operating Model with milestones, tasks, and staffing estimates.
• Monitor key metrics, budgets, and cloud costs for stakeholders.

Skills

10+ years of experience

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Job description

Role Responsibilities:

• *Manage Multiple Projects: Oversee the successful execution of five or more concurrent projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives, adherence to timelines and budgets, and delivery of high-quality outcomes.
• *End-to-End Project Leadership: Drive the successful development of applications and platforms by ensuring alignment with VizTech standard practices throughout the process.
• *Issue Resolution and Escalation Management: Serve as point of escalation and remove roadblocks.
• *Team Health Assessments: Oversee regular Team Health Assessments for individual development teams to identify improvement areas, enhance collaboration, and address challenges.
• *Agile Practices: Ensure Agile best practices are followed, team agreements are set, and all necessary ceremonies are scheduled.
• *Resource Allocation: Collaborate with teams to prioritize, allocate, and adjust resources, which includes regularly updating an internal resourcing tool.
• *Product Operating Model Support: Work with product management and architecture teams on critical documentation for the operating model, outlining development milestones, tasks, and staffing estimates.
• *Metrics and Reporting: Monitor and report on key metrics, budgets, and cloud costs to provide regular updates to stakeholders and drive predictability improvements.
• *Accountability and Performance Alignment: Tie deliverables to OKRs, promoting ownership and performance tracking.
• *Service Enablement: Advocate for the reuse of platform components and ensure clear ownership of capabilities.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree preferred
• 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, platform product leadership, enterprise architecture-aligned product strategy, data/AI products, developer platforms, or AI-first software delivery

Estimated Hiring Range:

At Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. Geographic factors may adjust the range estimate and hires typically fall below the top range. Compensation decisions are tailored to individual circumstances. The current salary range for this role is $135,200.00 to $236,600.00.

This position is also incentive eligible.

Vizient has a comprehensive benefits plan! Please view our benefits here:

http://www.vizientinc.com/about-us/careers

Equal Opportunity Employer: Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The Company is committed to equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants without regard to race, religion, color, gender identity, ethnicity, age, national origin, sexual orientation, disability status, veteran status or any other category protected by applicable law.