Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader - REMOTE

NTT DATA Services•Plano, TX

2d•$150,000 - $350,000•Remote

About The Position

NTT DATA is building AI Service-as-Software as a new product-led growth engine and one of the company's key strategic bets. We are seeking an Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader to stand up dedicated executive product leadership for the AI Solutions Platform, three industry-focused AI products, and shared platform capabilities. This role will shape and execute the AI Service-as-Software product agenda, directly driving a strategic bet in partnership with NTT DATA AI Vista. The leader will translate AI strategy into a scalable, repeatable product portfolio with clear roadmaps, strong product maturity, improved platform reuse, commercialization-ready offerings, and disciplined product operating practices. This is not a traditional Product Owner or consulting delivery role. It is an executive product leadership role focused on moving NTT DATA from bespoke AI services toward repeatable, platform-led AI Native growth.

Requirements

15+ years of experience in enterprise product leadership, AI platforms, digital platforms, enterprise software, productized services, or cross-industry solution development.
Experience leading senior product leaders or cross-functional product teams in complex, matrixed environments.
Proven ability to shape and scale product portfolios, platform capabilities, or enterprise solution offerings.
Strong understanding of AI, GenAI, agentic workflows, enterprise data platforms, cloud ecosystems, model lifecycle management, integration architecture, and enterprise software delivery.
Experience working across product, engineering, architecture, sales, delivery, finance, marketing, and senior executive stakeholders.
Ability to build fact-based recommendations on product strategy, investment priorities, roadmap trade-offs, and commercialization choices.
Strong executive presence and ability to influence across a global organization.
Experience supporting commercialization, sales enablement, strategic pursuits, and client-facing product positioning.

Nice To Haves

Experience building or scaling AI, GenAI, agentic, automation, or data platform products.
Experience in a global systems integration, consulting, enterprise technology, SaaS, cloud, or platform business.
Experience with Service-as-Software, productized services, or platform-led delivery models.
Experience moving from bespoke solution delivery toward reusable, repeatable product models.
MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or related field.

Responsibilities

Define and refine the product strategy for the AI Solutions Platform and three industry-focused AI products.
Translate the AI Service-as-Software ambition into a clear portfolio roadmap, product maturity milestones, and execution priorities.
Recommend portfolio sequencing, business cases, and investment priorities for executive review.
Assess client needs, market demand, AI platform trends, competitive dynamics, regulatory considerations, and commercial relevance to inform product direction.
Lead, coach, and develop Senior Director-level Product Owners responsible for industry products and shared platform capabilities.
Set expectations for product strategy, discovery, roadmap quality, execution discipline, stakeholder alignment, and product performance.
Build a consistent product operating model across the portfolio, including governance rhythms, roadmap standards, product reviews, metrics, and escalation paths.
Develop product leadership capability in a job family that is strategically important and not historically common at NTT DATA.
Guide the roadmap and execution of the horizontal AI Solutions Platform in partnership with Product Engineering, AI/ML, architecture, cloud, security, and delivery teams.
Define reusable platform capabilities that can be leveraged across industries and client environments.
Promote a 70% standardized / 30% configurable model to improve repeatability, scalability, deployment speed, and margin potential.
Ensure products are designed for enterprise-grade security, reliability, usability, compliance, operational readiness, and integration into client environments.
Improve product-led commercialization through packaging inputs, pricing inputs, sales enablement, product narratives, demos, and executive client positioning.
Support strategic pursuits where AI Service-as-Software products are central to the opportunity.
Partner with AI Vista, AI Market Makers, global industry leaders, regional sales, finance, marketing, delivery, and product engineering stakeholders.
Help directly drive the $125M current-year AI Service-as-Software strategic bet while sales targets, delivery revenue ownership, and client delivery accountability remain with business, sales, and delivery leadership.
Work with Forward Deployed Engineering, delivery teams, industry leaders, sales teams, and strategic clients to identify repeatable AI use cases.
Determine which client-specific patterns should be recommended for productization as shared capabilities, templates, accelerators, or platform services.
Ensure field insights and client adoption data inform roadmap updates, platform improvements, launch readiness, and industry product evolution.