AVP, Platform Product Management

Vizient; Centennial (CO); On-site; USD 157,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligibility

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Vizient seeks a seasoned platform product leader to define and drive enterprise platform strategy, aligning internal capabilities, AI delivery, and architecture direction. You will shape roadmaps, advocate governance, and elevate platform adoption across senior technical and business leaders.

Lead a high-impact team, partner with engineering executives, and build scalable capabilities for reusable platforms, APIs, and AI-first delivery. This role offers incentive eligibility and strong benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management or platform leadership experience.
• Proven success shaping enterprise-scale platform strategy.
• Deep expertise in data platforms or AI-enabled delivery.
• Fluent in advising senior leaders on platform governance and adoption.
• Strong ability to develop future platform product leaders.
• Balances strategic vision with operational execution.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-domain platform strategy aligning engineering priorities and enterprise needs.
• Identify high-leverage opportunities to improve reuse, governance, and developer productivity.
• Shape long-term roadmaps including migration and AI-first operating model evolution.
• Create narratives and decision frameworks to guide platform investments.
• Serve as a recognized expert and partner with senior engineers on platform tradeoffs.
• Influence standards for reusable capabilities and adoption metrics.
• Advise leaders on strategy, discovery, and AI-first delivery maturity.
• Lead cross-cutting initiatives without large-team ownership.
• Represent platform strategy in executive forums.
• Coach and develop platform product talent with reusable frameworks.

Skills

Platform product leadership

AI-enabled delivery

Data platforms

APIs & integration

Governance

Internal developer platforms

Job description

When you’re the best, we’re the best. We instill an environment where employees feel engaged, satisfied and able to contribute their unique skills and talents while living and working as their authentic selves. We provide extensive opportunities for personal and professional development, building both employee competence and organizational capability to fuel exceptional performance through an inclusive environment both now and in the future.

Enterprise Platform Strategy

• Define multi-domain platform product strategy that connects internal capabilities, engineering priorities, AI Delivery, architecture direction, AIDLC practices, and enterprise product needs.
• Identify high-leverage platform opportunities that improve reuse, scalability, governance, developer productivity, AI-assisted delivery quality, and speed to value.
• Shape long-term roadmaps for internal platform capabilities, including migration strategy, adoption pathways, investment sequencing, and AI-first operating model evolution.
• Create strategic narratives and decision frameworks that help leaders prioritize platform investments.

Technical Product Thought Leadership

• Serve as a recognized expert in platform product management, internal developer enablement, AI-enabled platform capabilities, data platforms, enterprise architecture-aligned product strategy, or AI-first software delivery models.
• Partner with senior engineering and architecture leaders to evaluate platform tradeoffs, capability boundaries, service ownership, governance models, and agentic coding enablement.
• Influence standards for reusable capabilities, platform adoption, measurement, internal user experience, responsible AI use, and high-leverage product artifacts that support AI-assisted build workflows.
• Anticipate emerging needs related to AI delivery, data/knowledge platforms, automation, security, observability, responsible governance, and changing development practices.

Strategic Influence & Talent Multiplication

• Advise platform product leaders on strategy, discovery, stakeholder alignment, executive communication, and AI-first product delivery maturity.
• Lead the most ambiguous or cross-cutting platform initiatives without requiring large-team ownership.
• Represent platform product strategy in executive and senior technical forums.
• Build product capability through coaching, examples, reusable frameworks, prompt/context patterns, and high-quality product narratives.

Team Leadership

• Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of platform product managers.
• Establish role clarity, operating models, performance expectations, and career development plans for platform product talent.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in product management, platform product leadership, technical product management, enterprise architecture-aligned product strategy, data/AI products, developer platforms, AI-first software delivery, or enterprise technology leadership.
• Proven success shaping enterprise-scale platform strategy and influencing senior technical and business leaders.
• Deep expertise in one or more internal platform domains, such as data platforms, AI/ML enablement, internal developer platforms, APIs and integration, identity/access, knowledge graphs, cloud/platform architecture, governance, or agentic coding enablement.
• Recognized fluency using AI tools and advising teams on responsible, effective AI-first product practices.
• Builds and develops high-performing platform product teams.
• Creates organizational alignment around platform strategy and execution.
• Holds teams accountable for platform adoption, business outcomes, and delivery results.
• Develops future platform product leaders and succession pipelines.
• Balances strategic vision with operational execution.

Estimated Hiring Range

The current salary range for this role is $156,500.00 to $290,100.00. 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.