# Senior Director, Product Management (Data & AI) **Company**: Fortrea **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Product Management **Industry**: Technology **Apply**: https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Warsaw/Senior-Director--Product-Management--Data---Artificial-Intelligence-_265364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_45436b37-dac ## Description The Senior Director, Product Management (Data & AI) is responsible for defining, driving, and delivering Fortrea's enterprise Data & AI product strategy, product portfolio, and multi-year product roadmap. This role serves as the senior product leader for Data & AI, accountable for ensuring that enterprise data products, analytics products, AI solutions, and emerging digital capabilities align with Fortrea's strategic objectives and long-term technology vision. **Product Strategy & Vision** - Develop and maintain the enterprise Data & AI product strategy aligned to Fortrea's business objectives and three-year technology roadmap. - Establish a clear product vision for enterprise data, analytics, artificial intelligence, automation, and emerging digital capabilities. - Define and maintain multi-year product roadmaps that balance business priorities, technical investments, innovation opportunities, and organizational capacity. - Partner with executive stakeholders to identify future product opportunities and strategic business needs. - Translate enterprise strategy into actionable product objectives, priorities, and measurable outcomes. - Drive product innovation and identify opportunities to maximize the value of enterprise data and AI investments. **Data & AI Product Portfolio Leadership** - Own the enterprise Data & AI product portfolio, including product lifecycle management, prioritization, governance, and performance management. - Establish portfolio management processes supporting product intake, evaluation, funding, prioritization, and roadmap planning. - Ensure alignment and integration across data, analytics, AI, reporting, governance, and platform-related products. - Balance short-term business needs with long-term strategic product investments. - Define product success metrics and value realization frameworks across the portfolio. - Continuously evaluate portfolio performance and optimize investment decisions based on business outcomes and strategic priorities. **Product Delivery & Execution** - Own successful delivery of enterprise data and AI products from concept through deployment and ongoing enhancement. - Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Data, and Program Management leaders to ensure successful delivery of product roadmaps. - Drive prioritization of product backlogs and delivery plans to maximize business value. - Remove obstacles impacting product execution and serve as an escalation point for strategic product issues. - Ensure products are delivered within approved scope, timelines, budget, and quality expectations. - Oversee adoption, usage, performance, and ongoing evolution of deployed products. - Establish product governance and operating models supporting sustainable delivery and continuous improvement. **Business Partnership & Value Realization** - Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and Data & AI delivery teams. - Establish strong relationships with functional leaders to understand business objectives, challenges, and opportunities. - Ensure product investments align with measurable business outcomes and enterprise priorities. - Develop business cases supporting product investments and strategic initiatives. - Lead value realization reviews to demonstrate business impact and return on investment. - Drive customer-centric and business-driven product development practices. **People Leadership** - Build, lead, and develop a high-performing team of Product Managers, Product Owners, and product leadership professionals. - Establish the product management operating model and organizational structure for the Data & AI organization. - Provide coaching, mentoring, performance management, and career development opportunities for team members. - Drive talent acquisition, succession planning, workforce planning, and organizational capability development. - Foster a culture of ownership, innovation, accountability, customer focus, and continuous improvement. - Develop product management capabilities and best practices across the broader Data & AI organization. **Financial & Investment Management** - Develop and manage Data & AI product investment plans and strategic funding priorities. - Partner with Finance and Technology leadership on annual budget planning and investment governance. - Evaluate product investment opportunities and prioritize initiatives based on business value, risk, cost, and strategic alignment. - Support build-versus-buy decisions and product investment recommendations. - Monitor product portfolio investment performance and value realization. - Ensure effective stewardship of product-related technology investments. **Stakeholder & Executive Leadership** - Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership regarding Data & AI product strategy, performance, and future investments. - Prepare and deliver executive-level product roadmaps, business reviews, investment recommendations, and performance updates. - Lead product governance forums, roadmap reviews, and strategic planning sessions. - Communicate product strategy and business value across technical and non-technical stakeholder groups. - Partner with Enterprise Architecture, Security, Compliance, Program Management, and Technology leaders to ensure alignment across all product initiatives. **Qualifications (Minimum Required)** - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Data Analytics, or related field. - Fortrea may consider relevant and equivalent experience and successful project outcomes in lieu of educational requirements. **Experience (Minimum Required)** - 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in Product Management, Technology Leadership, Data & Analytics, Digital Products, or related disciplines. - 7+ years of experience leading enterprise product portfolios, product organizations, or large-scale digital transformation initiatives. - Demonstrated success developing and delivering multi-year product strategies and roadmaps. - Experience managing enterprise technology, data, analytics, or AI-related products. - Proven people leadership experience, including hiring, mentoring, developing, and leading Product Managers. - Experience managing investment portfolios, business cases, budgeting, and strategic planning activities. - Exceptional executive communication, stakeholder management, and influencing skills. **Preferred Qualifications Include** - Master's Degree in Business Administration, Technology Management, Data Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, or related discipline. - Experience leading Data, Analytics, AI, Machine Learning, Digital, or Platform Product organizations. - Familiarity with Azure, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, AI platforms, and enterprise analytics environments. - Experience operating within life sciences, healthcare, CRO, or other regulated industries. - Product Management certifications or Agile Product Management experience preferred. ## Skills ### Required - Product Management - Technology Leadership - Data & Analytics - Digital Products - AI - Machine Learning - Azure - Microsoft Fabric - Power Platform ### Nice to have - Master's Degree in Business Administration - Technology Management - Data Analytics - Artificial Intelligence - Agile Product Management --- Source: [Apply at fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com](https://fortrea.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Fortrea/job/Warsaw/Senior-Director--Product-Management--Data---Artificial-Intelligence-_265364?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)