SVP, AI Product & Portfolio Strategy

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc.; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); Hybrid; USD 250,000 - 360,000; Full time

Job summary

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc. in Philadelphia is seeking a SVP, Product Management to lead the expanding Product Manager team and own the full product portfolio.

You will set strategy, standards, and cross-functional partnerships to ensure business impact and adoption of the AI product portfolio. This hybrid role requires 2 days per week onsite in Philadelphia, PA, and involves partnering with Product Operations, Product Engineering, and senior leadership to drive portfolio success and governance

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12-15 years of experience in Product Management, including significant experience leading Product Management as a function (leading leaders), preferably within a digital agency, marketing technology, or SaaS environment.
• AI Fluency: Deep, strategic understanding of LLM capabilities and limitations, sufficient to set investment strategy and communicate trade-offs to agency leadership and clients.
• The Industry: Substantial experience working in regulated industries (healthcare/pharma) is highly preferred.
• Leadership: Proven track record building and growing a multi-level Product Management team; experience developing Directors and Product Managers.
• Executive Presence: Demonstrated ability to represent a function to executive leadership, ownership, and clients; strong influence skills without direct authority over partner functions.
• Strategic & Data-Driven: Ability to set and defend function-level and portfolio-level strategy using business and usage data; comfort owning budget and resourcing trade-offs.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: Lead the growing Product Management group; Own hiring, career development, performance management, and org structure for the growing team.
• Practice Standards: Set the standards, tools, templates, and processes for how Product Management operates across the agency, including BRD/PRFAQ standards, prioritization frameworks, and Agile practices.
• Career Framework: Own and evolve the Product Management career framework, ensuring clear leveling and growth paths from Product Manager through Director.
• Portfolio Ownership: Own the roadmap and BRD/backlog quality across the entire AI product portfolio, ensuring consistency and prioritization logic across all products.
• Prioritization Framework: Maintain and evolve the prioritization framework and effort-assessment criteria used across the portfolio, in partnership with Product Ops and Engineering leadership.
• Capacity Planning: Partner with Product Ops and Engineering leadership on portfolio-wide capacity planning, allocating engineering resources across all products and the Product Managers and Directors who own them.
• Portfolio Strategy: Work with leadership to continually assess portfolio and ensure alignment of investment with broader agency growth goals.
• Executive Relationships: Represent Product Management internally and externally with clients as required. Serve as the senior voice for what the AI product function is building and why.
• Budget Ownership: Own budget and resourcing decisions for the Product Management function, including headcount planning and prioritization of investment across the portfolio.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with the senior leaders and business sponsors to identify and resolve conflicts in prioritizations and general product strategy.
• Portfolio Adoption: Own adoption strategy across the entire portfolio; ensure rollout and training approaches are consistent and effective across all products. Work with L&D to formalize training specific to product.
• Accountability & Impact: Accountable for AI product portfolio measurement and impact. Own reporting on product function performance to agency leadership.
• Commercialization Strategy: Contribute to the agency’s strategy for product business planning.
• Governance Ownership: Serve as the senior Product voice in AI governance, partnering directly with Legal and IT/Operations leadership on policy decisions rather than only flagging concerns for review.
• Ensure Product Management practices remain aligned with evolving regulatory requirements across the portfolio.

Skills

Product leadership

AI fluency

Executive presence

Strategic & data-driven

Leadership

Regulated industries experience

Job description

Fingerpaint Marketing, Inc. in Philadelphia is seeking a SVP, Product Management to lead the expanding Product Manager team and own the full product portfolio.

You will set strategy, standards, and cross-functional partnerships to ensure business impact and adoption of the AI product portfolio. This hybrid role requires 2 days per week onsite in Philadelphia, PA, and involves partnering with Product Operations, Product Engineering, and senior leadership to drive portfolio success and governance