Platform PM Director: Semantic Layer & AI Enablement

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

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.