Platform Product Manager, Ontology & Knowledge Graph

Vizient, Inc.; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 77,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Incentive eligible

Job summary

Vizient, Inc. in the United States seeks a Product Manager to own defined Knowledge & Semantic Platform capabilities, including ontology, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, and metadata management.

You will partner with engineering, data teams and internal clients to define and evolve the operating layer beneath the platform, guiding AI-enabled solutions and semantic modeling. You will manage the backlog and roadmap, ensuring delivery aligns with governance, data stewardship, and AI-assisted

Qualifications

• Experience in product management or ownership for enterprise platforms or AI-enabled products.
• Ability to translate business concepts into semantic platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with ontology, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, and metadata management.
• Experience partnering with engineering and data teams to deliver scalable models.

Responsibilities

• Own the backlog and near-term roadmap for Knowledge & Semantic Platform capabilities.
• Conduct discovery with internal clients to understand concepts, data relationships and AI use cases.
• Define requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and semantic models.
• Collaborate with engineering, data, security, and design teams to translate concepts into reusable capabilities.
• Balance priorities across client needs, architecture direction, governance, and data stewardship.
• Support deployment, release readiness and adoption while promoting semantic standards.
• Use metrics and AI-supported synthesis to refine backlog and drive platform adoption.
• Create guidance and enablement resources to help teams leverage semantic capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to improve metadata quality and semantic consistency.

Skills

Product management

Knowledge graph

Ontology

Semantic modeling

Metadata management

AI-enabled products

Stakeholder management

Platform enablement

RAG

AI tooling

Education

Relevant degree

Tools

Codex/ChatGPT

Claude Code/Co‑Work

GitHub Copilot/Copilot Studio

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 independently own defined capabilities within the Knowledge & Semantic Platform that enable AI-powered products and consistent intelligence delivery across the organization. You will partner closely with engineering and internal clients to define and evolve the operating layer beneath the platform, including ontology, knowledge graph, metadata, entity relationships, taxonomy, and semantic models. You will manage the product backlog and roadmap for assigned platform capabilities while working in an AI-first product delivery model, leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery, requirements development, communication, validation, and delivery support.

Responsibilities

• Own the product backlog and near‑term roadmap for assigned Knowledge & Semantic Platform capabilities, including ontology, knowledge graph, taxonomy, metadata management, semantic modeling, and related platform services.
• Conduct discovery with internal clients to understand business concepts, workflow needs, data relationships, AI use cases, and opportunities to improve semantic consistency and intelligence delivery.
• Define product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, semantic models, entity relationships, metadata standards, prompt and context artifacts, and validation approaches that enable scalable AI‑driven solutions.
• Partner with engineering leads, architects, AI Delivery, data engineering, security, and design teams to translate business concepts into reusable semantic platform capabilities.
• Balance delivery priorities across internal client needs, engineering capacity, architecture direction, governance requirements, data stewardship practices, and emerging AI‑assisted development opportunities.
• Collaborate with teams using agentic coding tools, AI‑assisted development environments, and AI‑supported testing, documentation, and validation workflows to improve delivery quality and speed.
• Support implementation planning, release readiness, documentation, validation, and adoption activities while promoting consistent semantic standards and reusable platform capabilities.
• Use metrics, operational insights, client feedback, and AI‑supported synthesis to refine backlog priorities and continuously improve ontology, metadata quality, semantic relationships, and platform adoption.
• Create guidance, demonstrations, communications, and enablement resources that help internal teams effectively leverage semantic platform capabilities, knowledge graph assets, and AI‑first development practices.
• Identify opportunities to improve metadata quality, semantic consistency, data stewardship, self‑self, and reusable knowledge assets that enhance AI-enabled products and retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) capabilities.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 2 or more years of relevant experience required.
• Typically possesses 3-5 years of relevant experience in product management, product ownership, enterprise platforms, knowledge management, semantic technologies, AI‑enabled products, or platform enablement.
• Experience working with ontology, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, semantic modeling, metadata management, graph databases, or related knowledge management technologies preferred.
• Experience partnering with engineering and data teams to translate business concepts into scalable semantic models, entity relationships, and reusable platform capabilities.
• Familiarity with AI‑enabled applications, retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG), large language models, or other AI technologies that leverage structured knowledge and semantic data preferred.
• Demonstrated experience using AI tools such as Codex/ChatGPT, Claude Code/Co‑Work, GitHub Copilot/Copilot Studio, and emerging agentic coding environments to improve product discovery, requirements development, documentation, analysis, and communication.
• Understanding of data stewardship, metadata governance, healthcare data concepts, and semantic consistency principles preferred.
• Strong analytical, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive adoption, reuse, quality, and measurable business value across platform capabilities.

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 $77,400.00 to $135,400.00.

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.