Enterprise AI Portfolio Lead: Strategy & Investment

Diamondback Energy; Midland (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Diamondback Energy is seeking an AI Portfolio Strategy Lead to drive enterprise investment decisions across its AI portfolio. You will oversee opportunity intake, portfolio assessment, prioritization, sequencing, and performance management, ensuring resources focus on high-value AI initiatives.

You will serve as the bridge among business stakeholders, Product Owners, AI leadership, and delivery teams, providing analysis, transparency, and decision support to balance value, feasibility, risk, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, information systems, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in portfolio strategy, product portfolio management, technology strategy, or related functions overseeing technology, data, analytics, or AI investments.
• Experience with portfolio governance, intake, prioritization, stage gates, and executive decision forums.
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative evidence to make investment, prioritization, sequencing, and resource-allocation recommendations.
• Strong analytical and communication skills, including executive reporting and performance measurement.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate cross-functional teams without direct authority.

Responsibilities

• Lead enterprise intake and assessment of AI opportunities against strategic alignment, expected value, business readiness, data readiness, technical feasibility, risk, and resource requirements.
• Maintain the integrated enterprise view of the AI portfolio, including roadmap, pipeline, initiative status, investment decisions, and movement through the AI lifecycle.
• Lead portfolio planning and investment decision support; develop data-driven recommendations on priorities, sequencing, portfolio tradeoffs, capacity allocation, and whether initiatives advance, pause, pivot, or stop.
• Operationalize the enterprise AI investment and lifecycle governance model, equipping decision forums with information, criteria, and recommendations to decide on time, and removing bottlenecks.
• Partner with Product Owners, business sponsors, AI Engineering & Delivery, the IT PMO, and the AI Value & Economics Lead to maintain portfolio-level alignment and accountability.
• Monitor portfolio performance across value, adoption, progress, capacity, dependencies, risk, and resource utilization; identify underperforming investments and recommend corrective action.
• Provide executives and the enterprise with concise portfolio insights and decision recommendations covering investment performance, value delivered, capacity constraints, dependencies, risks, and opportunities.
• Identify overlapping investments, reusable capabilities, common business patterns, and portfolio gaps; scale AI solutions across functions.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Executive communication

Cross-functional leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree in business/engineering/information systems

Job description

Diamondback Energy is seeking an AI Portfolio Strategy Lead to drive enterprise investment decisions across its AI portfolio. You will oversee opportunity intake, portfolio assessment, prioritization, sequencing, and performance management, ensuring resources focus on high-value AI initiatives.

You will serve as the bridge among business stakeholders, Product Owners, AI leadership, and delivery teams, providing analysis, transparency, and decision support to balance value, feasibility, risk, and