Reston, VA, US, 20190
Data Product Manager - AI Products
Data Product Manager - AI Products
Volkswagen Financial Services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Volkswagen Group, is the trusted key to mobility for its brand partners. We are committed to supporting the Audi, Ducati, and Volkswagen brands and their Dealers, specializing in providing accessible mobility solutions for its Customers. The company’s offerings include Retail Leasing, Retail Financing, Commercial Financing for new and used vehicles, and End-of-Term vehicle disposition.
Brief Role Description
This position is Career Level 29P and located in Reston, VA, with a Role Classification of Hybrid.
Role Summary
The AI Product Manager will support the delivery of specific AI-enabled products that align with the established AI product roadmap. This role will drive adoption and usability of AI solutions across business teams and serve as the delivery lead for a defined set of priority AI initiatives, partnering closely with the AI CoE leadership to execute product delivery, obtain stakeholder alignment, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
The role will be focused on connecting brand, vehicle, customer and dealer data to support the Sales, Marketing, Risk, Collections, Finance, Controlling and other business units to define, innovate, and deploy AI-enabled products. The role will collaborate with Data Science, ML Ops, Data Engineering, and IT Ops and as well as other product teams to roll out AI solutions at an enterprise scale.
To be effective in this position it will be critical to have deep expertise in data, analytics, and AI solutions as well as exceptional communication skills, and influence capabilities.
Responsibilities within this Role
AI product roadmap planning and execution (30%)
• AI product execution and delivery (50%)
• AI product rollout and adoption (20%)
Responsibilities will include:
• Act as the day-to day execution lead for prioritized AI products, accountable for end-to-end delivery, cross-functional execution, and ultimate product success against defined business objectives
• Assist in the definition, design and delivery of AI solutions working with product owners, and BU SME’s
• Directly work with key Business Stakeholder to investigate, identify, collaborate, and ensure the delivery of data solutions for business units and customers.
• Document and enter Epics, Features and stories in Jira, managing backlog prioritization and acceptance criteria for assigned AI products
• Collaborate with data engineering and Data Science to implement robust and scalable MLOps pipelines
• Collect and analyze data to determine product direction and work with BU product owners/ SME’s to identify potential solutions, which informs the product roadmap
• Coordinate and participate in user acceptance testing of functional requirements.
• Collaborate with other Product Owners to ensure programs and processes across the entire system are aligned and prioritized
• Create product training and documentation materials in support of the implementation and launch of AI Products.
• Identify and propose pragmatic innovations that improve product outcomes and delivery efficiency
• Support communication, presentations, training, and documentation to enable successful user adoption
Qualification requirements
Years of Revlevant Experience:
10+ years of hands-on experience delivering data‑driven and AI‑enabled products with a demonstrated ability of translating business challenges into clear, actionable product requirements and delivery plans.
4+ years in product management/ownership building and delivering successful AI/ML products and capabilities
4+ years of experience working with Data Scientists to deliver AI solutions
Required Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Computer Science, or Engineering
Desired Education:
- Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or Engineering
Skills:
- Deep understanding of business rollout and management of scaled Decision Sciences and Analytical solutions
- A strategic mindset, with passion and experience of rolling out AI products and grooming AI portfolio with business value and outcomes
- Passion for identifying and solving real consumer and business problems, and proven ability to prioritize high leverage opportunities to deliver to market
- Strong partnership with technology teams on enabling and empowering software development resources and product owners to deliver effective programs and product solutions
- A bias to action and a proven track record of delivering solutions within a matrixed organization to market at rapid speed
- Ability to analyze complex data flows and data integration
- Demonstrated willingness to be flexible and adaptable to changing priorities with the ability to motivate others to lead cross-functional teams
- Ability to lead data and implementation owners
- Ability to lead direct teams as well as matrixed partner teams as well as collaborate across brands and organization.
- A fantastic storyteller who is at ease presenting to senior leadership
Volkswagen Financial Services is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome and encourage applicants from all backgrounds, and do not discriminate based on race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, color, gender identity/expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristics protected by applicable laws.
This role description is a guideline and does not create contractual rights between the Company and any of its applicants. The Company does not enter into any type of employment contract, implied or written, with its applicants regarding job security.
This Organization participates in E-Verify. We maintain a drug free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.
Reston, VA, US, 20190
Nearest Major Market: Washington DC