Senior Associate, AI Marketing Transformation Product Owner

Job Summary:

As a Card Marketing Transformation product owner, you will drive innovative change by establishing AI-driven capabilities that transform our operational process for marketing execution. You will have a “blank sheet of paper” to design the future, but you must be able to bring together the right people to ideate the requirements, processes, technology, and governance to deliver. Success for this candidate includes the development of: (a) a target state vision for how to create an AI-driven marketing execution experience (b) a roadmap for how to collaborate with Technology, Regulatory/Legal/Controls, and execution teams to continuously and incrementally deliver against the target state (c) end-to-end capabilities delivery to enable speed to market and operational efficiency.

You must be able to operate within a highly matrixed organization, effectively influencing and communicating cross-functionally to enable business and financial results. You must be comfortable with ambiguity and be able to create structure where it may not exist. Finally, you must have a track record for leading teams through change and be unafraid to challenge the status quo to reimagine how we do business.

Job Responsibilities:

• Serve as a thought-leader who drives a strategic, complex, and highly visible AI-driven program across LOBs and functions from project initiation to delivery
• Accountable for strategic design, business requirements, and new ways of working to support AI agentic solutions
• Lead successful end to end execution and delivery of a program objective without precedent (including project conception, planning, requirements gathering, solutioning, governance, and decision-making) based upon targeted business outcomes, dependencies, and stakeholders
• Establish a problem statement, opportunity goals, baseline data, measures of success, and business requirements for AI-based capabilities
• Maintain an analytical mindset to understand, develop and synthesize requirements; risks; and cross-dependencies during roadmap delivery across multiple program workstreams. Able to articulate rationale behind roadmap and solutions
• Ensure there is communication, alignment, and coordination across all stakeholders by creating and facilitating project status and executive summary presentations; communicate effectively with peers, cross-functional team members, and senior stakeholders
• Communicate to all levels of the organization through compelling, impactful storytelling
• Build relationships with cross-functional teams (including Technology, Legal, and Regulatory Controls teams) to understand pain points, gather requirements, and drive solutioning
• Create an environment where all voices can be heard and ideas are openly welcomed and debated; establish trust with peers, partners, and executive sponsors
• Be a champion for both business and culture transformation, leading with consistency, integrity, and humility

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• 5+ years of related experience (program management and product owner-related experience)
• Significant AI expertise and proven delivery record of AI-based capabilities
• End to end product ownership experience – including understanding of best practices, tools, and processes
• Proven ability to lead initiatives through ambiguity typical of a large-scale business initiative and define path forward
• Proven ability to create senior executive leadership presentations
• High aptitude with agile best practices and collaboration tools (e.g. Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Teams)