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WESTERN GOVERNORS UNIVERSITY Senior Director, AI Product Management in SALT LAKE CITY, Utah

If you're passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country-and you're committed to working hard to play your part in building that future-consider WGU as the next step in your career.

 

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

 

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: $185,500.00 - $333,900.00

 

Job Description

 

As Senior Director AI Product Management for WGU Ed Tech, you will lead a talented product management team, and cross-functional 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 WGU's student AI strategy, including the technology required to support our AI-enabled future state and broader university technology needs.

 

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

  • Drives the AI product vision, product roadmap and execution 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 12-18-month 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 end-state 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.

     

Knowledge, Skill and Abilities:

 

  • A strong product mindset.

  • Commitment to curiosity and life-long learning.

  • Strong communication skills.

  • Empathy.

  • Independence and... For full info follow application link.

     

Western Governors Univeristy is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, colo r, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law.

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