Lead/Director, Platform Product Management - Ontology & Semantic Layer

Vizient, Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 118,000 - 206,000; Full time

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. is seeking a Platform Product Leader to drive strategy, prioritization, and evolution of major internal platform domains.

You will collaborate with AI Delivery, engineering, architecture, security, and product leadership to align investments and roadmaps, while building scalable, AI-ready platform capabilities. You will lead a small team, establish lightweight product management practices, and translate technical strategy into business decisions across multiple product teams.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 7+ years in product management or enterprise platform products.
• Experience with semantic models, knowledge services, and AI-enabled platforms.
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional platform initiatives.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategy, prioritization, and roadmap alignment across internal platform capability areas.
• Partner with engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and leadership to define priorities.
• Establish decision frameworks to sequence capabilities and address technical debt.
• Drive evolution of semantic layers, metadata, ontologies, taxonomies, and knowledge services.
• Develop capabilities for enterprise data products and intelligent search.
• Align roadmaps with measurable outcomes and AI-first delivery maturity.
• Facilitate executive alignment on direction, funding, and adoption.
• Guide small team of platform product professionals and establish lightweight practices.
• Build partnerships to drive adoption and consistent delivery.

Skills

Strategic product management

Platform product leadership

AI/ML knowledge

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Relevant degree preferred

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. Summary: In this role, you will lead the strategy, prioritization, and evolution of one or more major internally facing platform domains. You will own how Vizient organizes, connects, and interprets knowledge across products, including semantic models, knowledge services, matching logic, and AI-ready context layers. You will align platform investments with enterprise priorities, engineering capacity, AI Delivery strategy, architecture direction, and AI-first product delivery practices while partnering across cross-functional teams to improve internal developer productivity, accelerate product delivery, and enable scalable, secure, and reusable platform capabilities.

Responsibilities

Lead strategy, prioritization, and roadmap alignment across multiple internal platform capability areas, including semantic models, knowledge services, matching logic, AI-ready context layers, and related platform capabilities.

Partner with Vizient Intelligence engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, and product leadership to define platform investment priorities and long-term platform strategy.

Establish decision frameworks that sequence platform capabilities, address technical debt, improve platform reuse, enhance internal developer productivity, and support AI-assisted and agentic development workflows.

Drive the evolution of semantic layers, metadata, ontologies, taxonomies, entity resolution, and reusable knowledge services that improve consistency, interoperability, and AI enablement across products.

Develop platform capabilities that support enterprise data products, intelligent search and retrieval, healthcare domain modeling, and AI-ready contextual experiences.

Align platform roadmaps with measurable outcomes including reduced delivery friction, increased adoption, stronger governance, faster product delivery, and improved AI-first delivery maturity.

Facilitate executive stakeholder alignment on platform direction, funding, dependencies, tradeoffs, adoption expectations, and AI-first operating model changes while representing platform priorities in leadership forums.

Resolve complex cross-functional priorities across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, product, and platform consumers by translating technical strategy into business-relevant decisions.

Guide and develop a small team of platform product professionals while establishing lightweight product management standards, discovery practices, roadmap narratives, success measures, prompt and context patterns, release planning, adoption planning, and responsible AI tool usage.

Build strong partnerships across engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, security, design, and internal product teams to drive platform adoption and consistent delivery outcomes.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred. 7 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience leading product management, technical product management, enterprise platform products, data and analytics platforms, AI/ML products, developer platforms, AI-enabled software delivery, or enterprise technology initiatives.
• Experience managing semantic platforms, knowledge services, semantic layers, knowledge graphs, ontologies, taxonomies, metadata, entity resolution, and enterprise knowledge management capabilities.
• Experience defining and delivering platform roadmaps that support AI/ML enablement, enterprise data products, intelligent search and retrieval, AI-ready context layers, and cross-functional platform strategy.
• Experience partnering with engineering, AI Delivery, architecture, and product leadership to deliver enterprise platform capabilities and influence platform investment priorities.
• Knowledge of healthcare data, healthcare domain modeling, enterprise information architecture, governance, and reusable platform capabilities preferred.
• Proven success leading complex cross-functional platform initiatives, influencing senior stakeholders, and driving enterprise adoption.
• Strong technical fluency across architecture, data, AI, integration, identity and access management, governance, internal developer workflows, and agentic or AI-assisted development practices.
• Demonstrated leadership, communication, strategic thinking, technical stakeholder management, and coaching skills with the ability to build scalable product management practices, influence technical tradeoffs and AI-first operating model decisions, and maintain a lean, high-impact operating model.

Compensation

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 $117,600.00 to $206,000.00. 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

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.

About Vizient

Working at Vizient means shaping the future of healthcare, every day. Alongside our clients, we're building a healthier, more human healthcare system. We connect people, data, and solutions to enable healthcare organizations to improve financial sustainability, enhance system performance, and deliver better care. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, with 11 offices across the United States, Vizient has more than 5,000 employees who bring deep expertise and a shared commitment to transforming healthcare. Together, we're solving some of the industry's most complex challenges while creating opportunities to learn, grow, and drive lasting change for healthcare organizations and the communities they serve. Through our enterprise of companies, we deliver meaningful impact across the continuum of care: Apexus - The exclusive contractor for 340B Drug Pricing Program, managed by the Health Resources and Services Administration. aptitude - The industry's first online direct contracting market, supporting self-contracting activity between hospitals and suppliers. Kaufman Hall - Leading healthcare advisory services to support our clients in achieving financial, clinical, and operational excellence. Provista - Proven supply chain partner specializing in extended, diagnostic, and preventive care facilities, including surgery centers, home health, and senior living.