Strategic AI & Data Product Leader

Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.; Fairfield (IA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Premium benefits package

Vacation & sick time

401K with company matching

Eleven paid holidays

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 role bridges strategy and execution across Product, Technology, Data, Architecture, Governance, and Business teams to deliver measurable impact. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in product leadership focused on AI-enabled platforms, with strong governance, privacy, and collaboration

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.
• Demonstrated ability to influence stakeholders without direct authority and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, prioritization, and business case development skills.
• Experience supporting organizational change and user adoption initiatives.

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 strategy

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Analytical skills

Prioritization

Delivery management

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 role bridges strategy and execution across Product, Technology, Data, Architecture, Governance, and Business teams to deliver measurable impact. The ideal candidate brings 5+ years in product leadership focused on AI-enabled platforms, with strong governance, privacy, and collaboration