Senior AI & Data Strategy Product Owner

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.; Iowa; Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Owner, AI & Data Strategy to define, build, and scale enterprise AI products while advancing trusted data foundations.

This senior individual contributor will bridge strategy and execution, collaborating across Product, Technology, Data, Architecture, Governance, and Business teams to deliver measurable impact. You will lead discovery, MVPs, roadmaps, and backlogs, translate objectives into user stories, and ensure data readiness,

Qualifications

• 5+ years of progressive product management, product ownership, digital product, data product, analytics, or related experience.
• Proven experience leading product strategy, roadmaps, backlogs, and delivery for complex enterprise products or platforms.
• Experience delivering AI-powered, machine learning, advanced analytics, intelligent automation, or workflow solutions.
• Working knowledge of generative AI, large language models (LLMs), retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), AI agents, prompt engineering, model evaluation, and AI observability.
• Strong understanding of enterprise data management practices, including governance, quality, lineage, metadata, privacy, and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute AI product strategies, roadmaps, and measurable business outcomes.
• Evaluate, prioritize, and guide enterprise AI opportunities based on customer value, business impact, data readiness, feasibility, and risk.
• Lead product discovery, experimentation, MVP development, launch planning, adoption, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Translate strategic objectives into well-defined product backlogs, features, user stories, and success metrics.
• Partner with data teams to improve data quality, governance, accessibility, lineage, and readiness for AI use cases.
• Support responsible AI practices by incorporating privacy, compliance, security, governance, and human oversight requirements into product design.
• Collaborate on Snowflake AI capabilities, Salesforce Agentforce initiatives, and related AI-driven innovations.
• Create executive-ready business cases, roadmap recommendations, performance scorecards, and strategy communications.
• Drive stakeholder alignment and influence decision-making across cross-functional teams.
• Measure product success through business outcomes such as adoption, efficiency gains, productivity improvements, quality enhancements, and risk reduction.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap development

Stakeholder influence

AI & data strategy

Data governance

Backlog prioritization

User stories

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

Snowflake AI

Salesforce Agentforce

Salesforce Data Cloud

Einstein AI

Azure AI Services

Job description

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. seeks a Senior Product Owner, AI & Data Strategy to define, build, and scale enterprise AI products while advancing trusted data foundations.

This senior individual contributor will bridge strategy and execution, collaborating across Product, Technology, Data, Architecture, Governance, and Business teams to deliver measurable impact. You will lead discovery, MVPs, roadmaps, and backlogs, translate objectives into user stories, and ensure data readiness,