Lead Product Manager, AI Portfolio, Product, & Value

sensata; Attleboro (MA); Presencial; USD 122.000 - 167.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Sensata is seeking a Lead Product Manager for the AI Portfolio focused on Operations. You will own AI products starting with Supply Chain and extending to Procurement, Quality and Engineering, partnering with planners, buyers and plant teams to prioritize features and drive value.

You will shape product scope, acceptance criteria, and success metrics, manage the backlog, and work with AI engineers and vendors to scale pilots into everyday use.

Formación

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in product management or AI product roles.
• Experience with ERP systems and planning tools.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of Agile delivery and backlog tools like Jira or Azure DevOps.

Responsabilidades

• Own AI products for operations use cases from initial scope to production.
• Map workflows with planners, buyers, and plant teams to identify pain points.
• Write user stories and define acceptance criteria for first version.
• Manage product backlog and roadmap; prioritize features with AI engineers and data scientists.
• Track value realization through inventory, service levels, and cost improvements.

Conocimientos

Product management

AI products

Operations

ERP (SAP/Oracle)

Agile backlog tools (Jira/Azure DevOps

Educación

Bachelor's degree

Herramientas

Jira

Azure DevOps

SAP

Oracle

Descripción del empleo

The Lead Product Manager, AI Portfolio, Product & Value (Focus: Operations) owns AI products for Sensata's operations, starting with Supply Chain and extending to Procurement, Quality and Engineering. Working directly with planners, buyers and plant teams, the role maps how work gets done today, pinpoints the real pain points, and shapes AI solutions whose features directly address them, defining what gets built, the first version's scope and acceptance criteria. The role also owns prioritization, business cases and measured value, so solutions move from pilot to production and are used every day.

General Responsibilities

• Oversees the development of actionable product roadmaps by integrating inputs from cross‑functional stakeholders in our business objectives & product strategy.
• Oversees product positioning in the marketplace, including rationalizing pricing strategy based on market conditions.
• Develop product strategy and optimize product portfolio, providing planning and project prioritization
• Contributes to the pricing strategy through the product life cycle
• Owns the balanced scorecard for their product line and drives the development and execution of the roadmap to improvement
• Addresses operational issues associated with quality, delivery and production.
• Anticipating and communicating issues, recommending corrective action, and taking independent remedial actions and reporting outcomes

Experience / Qualifications

• A university degree required (i.e. Bachelors degree) or equivalent relevant work experience.
• Must be a team player able to work in a fast‑paced environment with demonstrated ability to handle multiple competing tasks and demands
• Strong communication skills; oral, written and presentation
• Strong organization, planning and time management skills to achieve results
• Strong personal and professional ethical values and integrity
• Holds self‑accountable to achieving goals and standards
• Proficient in Microsoft Office programs (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel)
• Strong interpersonal & collaboration skills to work effectively with all levels of the organization including suppliers and/or external customers

Additional Responsibilities

• Own AI products for operations use cases, starting with Supply Chain (e.g., demand and supply planning, inventory, S&OP, order fulfillment) and extending to Procurement, Quality and Engineering.
• Map current workflows with planners, buyers, plant and quality teams; identify pain points, root causes and where AI can improve decisions or remove manual work.
• Translate pain points into product requirements: map AI features against each pain point, write user stories, and define the first version's scope, acceptance criteria and success metrics.
• Own the product backlog and roadmap; prioritize features and make clear trade‑offs with AI engineers, data scientists and the AI Architect.
• Test solutions with users, run pilots, gather feedback and iterate until the product is adopted in daily work.
• Run intake, triage and prioritization for operations AI use cases, and recommend scale, pivot or stop decisions.
• Build business cases with business owners and Finance (baseline, target value, cost) and track realized value after go‑live, such as inventory, service levels, cost and productivity.
• Make sure every product has a named business owner, success metrics and an adoption plan before build starts.
• Work with AI Governance, AI Enablement, IT and vendors so products clear governance gates and fit into ERP and planning systems; own business requirements in vendor and build/buy evaluations.
• Report product status, value and key decisions to AI leadership and business leaders.

Additional Qualifications

• 7+ years in product management, digital/AI product or operations roles, including 3+ years owning data, analytics or AI products.
• Hands‑on operations background, ideally in supply chain planning, inventory, S&OP, procurement or manufacturing operations.
• Strong product discovery skills: workflow and process mapping, user research and pain‑point analysis, turned into clear requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Track record of defining a first version and taking products from idea to production with measured adoption and business value.
• Working knowledge of ERP (e.g., SAP or Oracle), planning systems and operational data.
• Enough technical depth in GenAI, ML, optimization and agents to challenge engineers and vendors on scope, feasibility and cost.
• Experience building business cases and tracking realized value with Finance.
• Experience with Agile product delivery and backlog tools such as Jira or Azure DevOps.
• Able to influence senior business leaders with evidence and make clear prioritization calls.
• Experience in manufacturing, automotive or industrial environments preferred.
• Product (e.g., CSPO), ASCM/APICS (CPIM, CSCP) or Lean/Six Sigma certification preferred

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Base Salary Range

$121,600.00 - $167,200.00

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