Senior Technical Product Manager

VSP Vision; United States; Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

VSP Vision seeks an experienced Product Leader to own data, analytics, and AI product portfolios. You will define vision and strategy across business units, build roadmaps, and guide cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, governance-first data products that drive measurable enterprise value.

You will mentor associates, promote adoption, and partner with business stakeholders to ensure trusted data sources and end-user readiness. Strong communication and leadership are required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in a related field.
• 6+ years in product management with data/analytics/AI products.
• 6+ years in project or program management with leadership in complex environments.
• Ability to analyze data, usage, financials, adoption, value, and costs.
• Ability to manage ambiguous AI/analytics opportunities.
• Knowledge of product development methodologies and lifecycle.
• Strong stakeholder influence and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation and delivery of data platforms, analytics, AI-enabled products and governance to maximize enterprise value.
• Define vision and strategy across business units; create roadmaps and present to management.
• Lead cross-functional teams; develop PRDs and strategy docs for data products and governance.
• Mentor Associate Product Managers and other team members on analytics-driven practices.
• Promote enterprise adoption, enablement, and measurable business value.
• Partner with business to ensure end-user readiness and trusted data sources.
• Serve as central decision maker and coordinate with partners to resolve issues.
• Evaluate product performance, adoption, and value; ensure scalability and cost-effectiveness.
• Identify opportunities where analytics, automation, and AI improve decisions and outcomes.
• Balance trade-offs across speed, accuracy, governance, usability, and cost.

Skills

Data analysis

AI product leadership

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional leadership

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Marketing, Business, Engineering

MBA (desirable)

Job description

Lead the creation and delivery of products and/or services such as data platforms, analytics products, AI-enabled capabilities, and decision support products that are trusted, scalable, well governed, adopted, and aligned to measurable outcomes and that maximize value for the enterprise and its customers

Define overall product/service vision and strategy for data, analytics, and AI products across multiple business units, create product plans and roadmaps, make recommendations to management and executive team, and communicate plans both internally and externally

Effectively lead a cross-functional and/or cross LOB team to ensure successful delivery of product initiatives, including creating Product Requirements Documents or strategy documents related to data products, analytics capabilities, AI-enabled solutions, data governance, adoption, and technical dependencies

May act as a lead for Associate Product Managers and/or other team members and may mentor lower level partners on data and analytics driven product practices

Promote enterprise adoption, enablement, and measurable business value

Work with business partners and provide direction regarding enterprise adoption, enablement, communication, trusted sources of truth, and end-user readiness for assigned product portfolio

Serve as central resource and decision maker for all assigned products and initiatives, and coordinate with business partners to address and resolve product and/or client specific issues and business rules

Conduct ongoing product performance, usage, adoption, value, technical consumption, and portfolio evaluation to ensure products remain accurate, trusted, discoverable, reusable, scalable, cost-effective, and aligned to business outcomes and meet operational, financial, and enterprise success goals

Partner with the business and technology stakeholders to identify opportunities where analytics, automation, and AI can improve decision-making, efficiency, customer experience, and operational outcomes

Balance product trade-offs across speed, accuracy, scalability, governance, usability, technical complexity, operating cost, and timeframes when prioritizing product initiatives

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Marketing, Business, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience, graduate degree in business (MBA) is strongly desired.

Six years of experience in product management with significant responsibility for data, analytics, AI-enabled products, data platforms, or enterprise technology products.

Minimum of 6 years of experience with project or program management and proven leadership skills in complex, cross-functional technical environments.

Demonstrated ability to analyze data, product usage, technical consumption outputs, user feedback, financial information, business performance indicators, evaluate profitability, adoption, impact, value, and operating costs and identify trends.

Demonstrated ability to handle broad, complex and unstructured tasks ranging from analytical to strategic in nature, including ambiguous AI, analytics, and data product opportunities.

Superior knowledge of product and/or service development methodologies, including agile practices and product lifecycle management.

Highly skilled at managing products across operational divisions and across shared enterprise data, analytics, and AI platforms.

Highly skilled at effectively accomplishing objectives through others via influencing, delegating and strong working relationships

Proven ability to effectively communicate information to a wide variety of technical and non-technical individuals or groups at all levels of the organization

Thorough understanding of business implications, project interdependencies and system interfaces, including data governance, data quality, technical dependencies, platform reusability, and sources of truth.

Proficient at facilitating meetings and negotiating across all levels of the organization to align competing priorities, resolve product trade-offs, and drive decisions across business and technology stakeholders.

Ability to regularly exercise discretion and independent judgment in the performance of job duties.

For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment.

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Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please.

Salary Ranges: $84,000.00 - $141,750.00

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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