Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. phData is a remote-first data and AI consultancy company that partners with industry leaders to solve complex data challenges. As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for owning the solution vision and roadmap for data and AI platforms, ensuring alignment with client business goals and guiding them toward data-driven decision making.
Responsibilities
- Own solution vision and roadmap for client data and AI platforms/products: align strategies to business objectives, identify innovation opportunities, and guide clients toward higher data maturity and data‑driven decision making
- Be the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to executive and senior stakeholders—clarifying objectives, shaping KPIs/success metrics, and ensuring outcomes map to client value and ROI
- Translate business needs into actionable technical direction: work with architects, engineers, analysts, and change leaders to define solution scope, requirements, and a product‑based approach to data investments (platform, products, applications, services)
- Lead planning and execution using agile practices: coordinate cross-functional teams, timelines, and dependencies; manage risk, scope, and trade‑offs across multiple concurrent initiatives
- Establish and operationalize KPIs for business, customer, product, and teams—track performance, communicate status, and drive course corrections with data
- Ensure quality, adoption, and continuous improvement of solutions through testing, validation, stakeholder feedback, and iteration; connect solution changes to organizational change management needs
- Support business development by shaping solution narratives, contributing to proposals, and participating in client pitches to showcase phData’s capabilities and approach
- Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data, analytics, and AI; share insights to elevate client strategies and internal practice maturity
Skills
- Extensive experience in product management roles focused on data, analytics, or AI platforms and products
- Consulting experience with external clients, managing multiple priorities and stakeholders, including sales
- Strong data and AI literacy: Experience with modern cloud data platforms and complementary tooling
- Understanding of data modeling/semantic modeling, analytics, and how AI/ML applications solve business problems
- Familiarity with data and AI architecture and governance concepts
- Proven ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams (technical and non‑technical) in an agile environment—including multiple products managers and product portfolios
- Demonstrated strength in client relationship management: Building trusted relationships with executive/c-level stakeholders
- Translating complex business needs into practical technical solutions
- Communicating complex concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences
- Strong grasp of agile and product development life cycles, including backlog management, iterative delivery, and KPI‑driven decision making
- Experience working within change-heavy transformations (digital, data, analytics, AI), with an understanding of change management principles and how to drive adoption of new platforms and products
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills; able to manage multiple initiatives at once and stay oriented to the 'big picture' under pressure
- Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including crafting and delivering compelling solution and strategy narratives
- Proficiency with project and product management tools and AI‑enabled execution tooling
- Willingness to travel as required by clients
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