Senior Manager, AI Product Manager, Finance

AbbVie Inc.; North Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie Inc. is seeking a Senior Manager, AI Product Management, Finance to own the strategy, performance, governance, and value realization of a portfolio of AI-enabled products.

You will bridge business sponsors with AI engineering teams, guide roadmaps, and ensure measurable outcomes across enterprise priorities. The role requires leadership across Finance, IT, and governance functions, with a focus on value realization, risk management, and scalable operating mechanisms aligned to AbbVie's

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree plus 8 years’ experience; OR Master’s Degree plus 7 years; OR PhD plus 3 years.
• Respective years of experience in product management, technology strategy, digital transformation, analytics, program leadership, or related disciplines.
• 3+ years leading AI, machine learning, analytics, automation, or digital products.
• Enterprise AI product strategy: define a compelling vision, multi-year roadmap, portfolio standards, investment priorities, measurable outcomes.
• End-to-end product and portfolio leadership across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Strong executive partnership and influencing skills to align senior leaders on priorities.

Responsibilities

• Set the product vision, strategy, standards, and multi-year roadmap for AI-enabled Finance products.
• Translate business challenges into prioritized backlogs and clear user requirements.
• Guide cross-functional teams to ensure roadmaps and adoption plans align with enterprise priorities.
• Drive roadmap execution across AI Engineering, Data Engineering, Architecture, UX, and business teams.
• Own governance, budgeting, and risk management for AI-enabled portfolios.

Skills

AI product strategy

Executive partnership

Portfolio leadership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Data platforms

Product management

Change management

Governance

Value realization

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business/CS/Engineering

Master's degree

PhD

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Productboard

Job description

About AbbVie

AbbVie's mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people's lives across several key therapeutic areas including immunology, oncology and neuroscience - and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio. For more information about AbbVie, please visit us at www.abbvie.com . Follow @abbvie on LinkedIn, Facebook , Instagram , X and YouTube.

AbbVie is seeking a strategic and execution-oriented Senior Manager, AI Product Management, Finance to own the strategy, performance, governance, and value realization of a major portfolio of AI-enabled products for Finance.

This leader will serve as the accountable product and strategy bridge between business sponsors, AI engineering teams, data platforms, architecture, governance, risk, compliance, and change management functions. The role establishes portfolio direction, translates business needs into executable product strategies and roadmaps, and ensures AI products deliver measurable outcomes across large programs, multiple stakeholder groups, and enterprise priorities.

The ideal candidate combines advanced product management expertise with practical understanding of artificial intelligence, analytics, digital transformation, financial value creation, governance, organizational change, and talent development. Success requires leading through influence, resolving ambiguous enterprise-level problems, balancing innovation with compliance, and building scalable operating mechanisms that advance AbbVie’s long-term business strategy.

Responsibilities

AI Product Strategy & Vision

• Set the product vision, strategy, standards, and multi-year roadmap for AI-enabled products and capabilities across the Finance Team
• Partner with Finance and BTS leaders to identify high-impact AI opportunities that improve performance, decision quality, risk reduction, and business outcomes.
• Establish portfolio objectives, success metrics, adoption targets, value realization measures, and executive-level performance reporting.
• Develop and govern business cases, investment priorities, funding tradeoffs, and resource allocation recommendations based on strategic alignment, financial impact, risk reduction, compliance, and operational benefit.

Product Ownership & Delivery

• Oversee the full product lifecycle across major programs and products, from opportunity framing through deployment, scaling, sustainment, and benefit realization.
• Translate business challenges into prioritized product backlogs and clear user requirements.
• Guide Product Owners, Product Managers, Agile delivery teams, and cross-functional partners to ensure roadmaps, backlogs, releases, and adoption plans remain aligned with enterprise priorities.
• Drive roadmap execution across AI Engineering, Data Engineering, Architecture, UX, and business teams.
• Manage portfolio scope, priorities, dependencies, risks, budget implications, and tradeoffs across multiple teams and business areas.

Business Partnership & Stakeholder Management

• Build trusted relationships with leaders and key stakeholders across AbbVie.
• Facilitate alignment on priorities, outcomes, funding, and adoption strategies.
• Communicate product vision, roadmap progress, value realization, tradeoffs, risks, and decision needs clearly and persuasively to senior and executive leadership.
• Lead prioritization forums, governance bodies, steering discussions, and cross-functional decision forums that align stakeholders around high-visibility AI investments.

AI Adoption & Value Realization

• Measure product success through adoption, engagement, business outcomes, productivity gains, and financial impact.
• Partner with change management and training teams to accelerate adoption.
• Ensure products solve real user problems and drive sustainable behavior change.
• Track KPIs and continuously refine products using user insights and operational metrics.

Responsible AI & Governance

• Own AI product governance expectations for the portfolio, ensuring alignment with AbbVie policies, compliance requirements, privacy standards, quality expectations, data security, risk controls, and Responsible AI principles.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, Security, Quality, Privacy, Architecture, and Risk teams to establish controls, mitigate risks, support audit readiness, and respond to issues throughout the product lifecycle.
• Sponsor transparency, explainability, human oversight, model risk mitigation, documentation rigor, and scalable governance practices for AI-enabled solutions.

Product Management Excellence

• Establish and scale AI product management with best practices, frameworks, and tooling.
• Develop Product Managers, Product Analysts, business product owners, and emerging leaders through coaching, mentoring, capability building, and clear product management standards.
• Contribute to the development of a product-centric operating model for Data & AI
• Promote experimentation, customer-centricity, and evidence-based decision making.

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Science, or related fields plus 8 years’ experience; OR Master’s Degree plus 7 years’ experience; OR PhD plus 3 years’ experience
• Respective years of experience in product management, technology strategy, digital transformation, analytics, program leadership, or related disciplines, with demonstrated ownership of large programs, portfolios, or critical business capabilities.
• 3+ years leading AI, machine learning, analytics, automation, or digital products
• Enterprise AI product strategy: Ability to define a compelling product vision, multi-year roadmap, portfolio standards, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes aligned with business strategy.
• End-to-end product and portfolio leadership: Proven ability to lead complex AI products from opportunity framing through delivery, scaling, sustainment, adoption, and benefit realization across multiple teams and dependencies.
• Business and executive partnership: Strong business acumen and influence skills to align senior leaders on priorities, funding, tradeoffs, risks, decisions, and adoption without relying on direct authority.
• AI, data, and delivery fluency: Practical understanding of AI, machine learning, analytics, data platforms, architecture, user experience, and Agile delivery sufficient to translate business needs into executable product strategies, roadmaps, and backlogs.
• Value realization and adoption: Ability to build business cases, establish KPIs, quantify financial and operational impact, use customer insights, and drive sustained adoption and behavior change.
• Responsible AI and governance: Demonstrated capability to embed privacy, security, quality, compliance, model risk, human oversight, documentation, and audit-readiness throughout the AI product lifecycle.
• Operating model and talent development: Experience establishing scalable product management practices and coaching Product Managers, Product Owners, analysts, and cross-functional teams to improve product discipline and delivery performance.
• Experience setting strategy, managing portfolio-level priorities, influencing cross-functional leaders, and communicating recommendations, risks, and tradeoffs to senior leadership.
• Demonstrated experience managing product roadmaps and Agile delivery teams.
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills
• Proven ability to influence across organizational boundaries without direct authority.
• Demonstrated ability to manage compliance, risk, governance, audit-readiness, and documentation expectations for technology-enabled products or programs.
• Experience building business cases and measuring value realization.

Preferred

• Experience in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, life sciences, manufacturing, or supply chain environments with a focus on Finance
• Familiarity with Generative AI, machine learning, data platforms, LLMs, AI governance, and MLOps concepts
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, Productboard, or similar product management tools
• MBA or advanced technical degree

Compensation

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

This job is eligible to participate in our long-term incentive programs.

Equal Opportunity

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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