Data Product Manager - AI Products Data Product Manager - AI Products

Volkswagen AG

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

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. This position is Career Level 29P and located in Reston, VA, with a Role Classification of Hybrid. Role Summary The Data Product Manager – AI Products will establish the data products roadmaps, supporting BI and Data Science use cases to accelerate and advance our Data & Analytics vision and technologies to shape the future strategy of VCI’s Mobility transformation. This role will champion the AI solutions being built, to drive adoption and usability by the business teams. 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 data and analytics products thru building solid data pipelines. This role will also be responsible analyzing independent data processing being done by BU’s, understand their pain points, identify effective AI solutions and collaborate with BU’s. The role will highly collaborate with data engineering, Data Science, IT OPS and other product teams to rollout the 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 build out, implementation, exceptional communication, and influence skills.

Requirements

10+ years of hands-on experience in data analytics with a demonstrated ability to translate business needs into creative and engaging output.
Working knowledge of business analysis, requirements gathering, data analysis and conceptualizing analytical solutions
Proficient in writing SQLs to analyze large data sets.
4+ years in product management or equivalent experience with building and delivering successful AI/ML data products, services and capabilities
4+ years of experience leading AI solutions, developing roadmaps and executive reporting
Bachelor’s degree in business, Marketing, Computer Science, or Engineering

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree in Entrepreneurship, Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or Engineering
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, and can influence senior executives, peers, and employees

Responsibilities

Assist in the definition, design and delivery of AI solutions working with product owners, and BU SME’s
Work with Agile scrum teams on design, definition, documentation and implementation of features for Data science use cases, data security, and data structure
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 and assist in story point analyses
Collaborate with data engineering and data science to implement robust and scalable MLOps pipelines
Assist in preparing and maintaining the product roadmap which defines product enhancements for short- and long-term releases
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
Serve as the internal and external subject matter expert for data solutions, working with CE, Sales, Marketing, CRM, Shared services groups across the Enterprise
Assist in creating product training and documentation materials in support of the implementation and launch of Analytics Platform applications.
Think differently and bring disruptive innovative concepts and ideas forward.
Partner closely with BU’s to understand their business challenges and develop appropriate analytics, reporting and visualization solutions to address them.
Support communication, presentations, training, and documentation to enable successful user adoption
Collaborate with data & AI governance teams to efficiently capture, organize data for developing new features in support of new product initiatives from BU’s.