AI/ML Product Manager, Senior Specialist

The Vanguard Group•Scottsdale, PA

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

This role involves owning the AI product vision for the Fund Ecosystem, partnering across Finance, business, and technology teams to define business problems, outcomes, value hypotheses, solution approaches, and roadmaps. The position requires leading AI ideation and use-case formulation, orchestrating AI intake and prioritization, and stewarding work through AI governance forums. A key aspect is proactively identifying, assessing, and managing risks across the AI lifecycle, including model risk, data risk, and operational readiness. The role also involves partnering with federated delivery teams to drive execution and ensuring the adoption and sustained business value of delivered AI capabilities. Support for business adoption through clear value articulation, change planning, and stakeholder engagement is crucial. The role leads technical product management activities for impactful technical products, drives the design and improvement of technical solutions, and influences cross-functional teams to create standard processes that enhance the client experience. Ensuring business outcomes are linked to business case drivers and coaching technical product teams are also key responsibilities. The role supports product teams' communication and customer outreach, facilitates business support, and drives connection across partners. It involves leading the planning, development, and implementation of new technical products, defining and analyzing technical markets, and developing detailed product features and requirements. Influencing user experience through qualitative and quantitative analysis, participating in business planning, and driving engineering practices are also part of the role. Special projects and other duties as assigned are also included.

Requirements

Defining and leading AI product strategies and multi-quarter roadmaps
Operating effectively across matrixed, cross-functional organizations
Driving initiatives from discovery through delivery within risk, model governance, and control frameworks
Partnering with technical teams while representing business outcomes and user needs
Navigating ambiguity and building structured operating models in emerging domains
Minimum of eight years related business experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required.

Nice To Haves

Graduate degree preferred.
Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.

Responsibilities

Own the AI product vision for the Fund Ecosystem.
Partner across Finance, business, and technology teams to define business problems, outcomes, value hypotheses, solution approaches, and roadmaps.
Lead AI ideation and use-case formulation by translating complex business problems into clearly defined, value-driven AI capabilities with well-scoped success measures.
Orchestrate AI intake and prioritization processes across the Fund Ecosystem.
Steward work through divisional and enterprise AI governance forums to ensure alignment with strategy, risk appetite, and model governance expectations.
Proactively identify, assess, and manage risk across the AI lifecycle, including model risk, data risk, operational readiness, and change impacts.
Work closely with risk and governance partners.
Partner with federated delivery teams to define scope, prioritize backlogs, and drive execution.
Ensure delivered AI capabilities are adopted, embedded in workflows, and producing sustained business value.
Support business adoption through clear value articulation, change planning, and stakeholder engagement to ensure AI solutions are usable, trusted, and durable.
Lead technical product management activities for multiple technical products, or one strategic technical product, with cross-divisional impact.
Drive the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.
Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create standard processes that drive significant change to the client experience.
Ensure business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.
Coach technical product teams towards standard processes and learnings.
Lead all aspects of product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as vital.
Facilitate strong business support through working with team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions.
Drive connection across all appropriate internal and external partners.
Lead the planning, development and implementation of new technical products with cross-divisional impact.
Define and analyze technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
Influence and employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
Participate in and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
Drive the team’s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.