Senior Director AI Product Management

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The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Pay Range: $185500.00 $333900.00

Job Description

As Senior Director AI Product Management for WGU Ed Tech you will lead a talented product management team and crossfunctional teams to develop manage and measure new AI products and features and build experiences that delight users. This is a highly visible and critical role that will drive WGUs student AI strategy including the technology required to support our AIenabled future state and broader university technology needs.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Drives the AI product vision product roadmap and excellence in product development across all tech platforms to support the application products across the student lifecycle domains.
• Champions the end users and drives product innovation.
• Accountable for monitoring top line business performance relative to product use.
• Defines prioritizes and achieves key targets in AI systems use performance engagement and key results.
• Recruits leads motivates and inspires a team of AI product managers.
• Represents a portfolio of AI products at the top level of the organization.
• Partners with the application product and UX/UI teams in leveraging design thinking systems thinking and agile best practices as part of the AI product life cycle.
• Translates AI portfolio vision into a 1218month strategic portfolio roadmap mapped to outcomes and value creation.
• Identifies product portfolio level KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) coaching team to adjust and refine products the data dictates.
• Proactively partners with Technology and senior business leaders to define endstate architecture that enables product portfolio and ensure products are secure resilient performant and scalable that solve material student and business problems.
• Leads an AI product team of product management and operations directors senior product managers product managers and UX/UI professionals with the potential to scale the team further. Nurtures develops and coaches AI product leaders identifying opportunities for growth and achieve measurable goals.

• A strong product mindset.
• Commitment to curiosity and lifelong learning.
• Strong communication skills.
• Empathy.
• Independence and autonomy.
• Accountability and business savvy.

Competencies:

• Must be able to clearly communicate to and influence sr. leadership across all functions and departments.
• This role will have the highest level of impact on our technology strategy and roadmap.
• Must be able to solve complex problems across team development and management crossdepartment collaboration and communication and product strategy and outcomes.
• Must be able to assess all team members for fit and competency and able to coach and mentor.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or higher in a related field.
• 9 years of experience hiring managing and developing product managers (individual contributors and people managers) with proven record of successfully developing and launching products.
• Experience in developing AIenabled products and launching them into the market
• Experience using quantitative and qualitative data to inform design decisions and drive change.
• Experience working with both technical and business stakeholders (Marketing Operations Data etc..
• Familiar with organizational maturity and related transformation.
• Demonstrated experience influencing senior management and setting expectations for major crossfunctional initiatives.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA or Masters in related field.
• Design Thinking Agile Product Certifications.

Position & Application Details

FullTime Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a fulltime regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical dental vision telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual 11 paid holidays and other paid leaves including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. Its not allinclusive.

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Equal Opportunity Employer: We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or protected veteran status.