Managing Director, AI Solutions Product Leader - REMOTE

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We are currently seeking a Managing Director, AI Solutions Product Leader - REMOTE to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).
Position Summary
NTT DATA is building AI Service-as-Software as a new product-led growth engine and one of the company's key strategic bets. We are seeking an Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader - Remote to stand up dedicated executive product leadership for the AI Solutions Platform, three industry-focused AI products, and shared platform capabilities.
This role will shape and execute the AI Service-as-Software product agenda, directly driving a strategic bet in partnership with NTT DATA AI Vista. The leader will translate AI strategy into a scalable, repeatable product portfolio with clear roadmaps, strong product maturity, improved platform reuse, commercialization-ready offerings, and disciplined product operating practices.
This is not a traditional Product Owner or consulting delivery role. It is an executive product leadership role focused on moving NTT DATA from bespoke AI services toward repeatable, platform-led AI Native growth.
What You Will Lead
* AI Solutions Platform product strategy and roadmap, including reusable horizontal capabilities across industries.
* Three industry-focused AI products, led by Senior Director-level Product Owners, with shared product standards and operating discipline.
* Shared platform capabilities such as agent orchestration, knowledge grounding, workflow automation, data integration, model management, governance, and enterprise integration.
* Product packaging and commercialization support, working closely with AI Vista, AI Market Makers, global industry teams, regional sales, and AI delivery.
* A lean, high-impact product organization in a product job family that is new to NTT DATA and requires scarce AI product, industry, and platform leadership capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Shape Product Portfolio Strategy
* Define and refine the product strategy for the AI Solutions Platform and three industry-focused AI products.
* Translate the AI Service-as-Software ambition into a clear portfolio roadmap, product maturity milestones, and execution priorities.
* Recommend portfolio sequencing, business cases, and investment priorities for executive review.
* Assess client needs, market demand, AI platform trends, competitive dynamics, regulatory considerations, and commercial relevance to inform product direction.
* Translate the AI Service-as-Software ambition into a clear portfolio roadmap, product maturity milestones, and execution priorities.
* Recommend portfolio sequencing, business cases, and investment priorities for executive review.
* Assess client needs, market demand, AI platform trends, competitive dynamics, regulatory considerations, and commercial relevance to inform product direction.
Lead Product Leaders
* Lead, coach, and develop Senior Director-level Product Owners responsible for industry products and shared platform capabilities.
* Set expectations for product strategy, discovery, roadmap quality, execution discipline, stakeholder alignment, and product performance.
* Build a consistent product operating model across the portfolio, including governance rhythms, roadmap standards, product reviews, metrics, and escalation paths.
* Develop product leadership capability in a job family that is strategically important and not historically common at NTT DATA.
Guide Platform Product Execution
* Guide the roadmap and execution of the horizontal AI Solutions Platform in partnership with Product Engineering, AI/ML, architecture, cloud, security, and delivery teams.
* Define reusable platform capabilities that can be leveraged across industries and client environments.
* Promote a 70% standardized / 30% configurable model to improve repeatability, scalability, deployment speed, and margin potential.
* Ensure products are designed for enterprise-grade security, reliability, usability, compliance, operational readiness, and integration into client environments.
Support Commercialization and Growth
* Improve product-led commercialization through packaging inputs, pricing inputs, sales enablement, product narratives, demos, and executive client positioning.
* Support strategic pursuits where AI Service-as-Software products are central to the opportunity.
* Partner with AI Vista, AI Market Makers, global industry leaders, regional sales, finance, marketing, delivery, and product engineering stakeholders.
* Help directly drive the $125M current-year AI Service-as-Software strategic bet while sales targets, delivery revenue ownership, and client delivery accountability remain with business, sales, and delivery leadership.
Convert Market Learning into Product Reuse
* Work with Forward Deployed Engineering, delivery teams, industry leaders, sales teams, and strategic clients to identify repeatable AI use cases.
* Determine which client-specific patterns should be recommended for productization as shared capabilities, templates, accelerators, or platform services.
* Ensure field insights and client adoption data inform roadmap updates, platform improvements, launch readiness, and industry product evolution.
Required Qualifications
* 15+ years of experience in enterprise product leadership, AI platforms, digital platforms, enterprise software, productized services, or cross-industry solution development.
* Experience leading senior product leaders or cross-functional product teams in complex, matrixed environments.
* Proven ability to shape and scale product portfolios, platform capabilities, or enterprise solution offerings.
* Strong understanding of AI, GenAI, agentic workflows, enterprise data platforms, cloud ecosystems, model lifecycle management, integration architecture, and enterprise software delivery.
* Experience working across product, engineering, architecture, sales, delivery, finance, marketing, and senior executive stakeholders.
* Ability to build fact-based recommendations on product strategy, investment priorities, roadmap trade-offs, and commercialization choices.
* Strong executive presence and ability to influence across a global organization.
* Experience supporting commercialization, sales enablement, strategic pursuits, and client-facing product positioning.
Preferred Qualifications
* Experience building or scaling AI, GenAI, agentic, automation, or data platform products.
* Experience in a global systems integration, consulting, enterprise technology, SaaS, cloud, or platform business.
* Experience with Service-as-Software, productized services, or platform-led delivery models.
* Experience moving from bespoke solution delivery toward reusable, repeatable product models.
* MBA or advanced degree in business, engineering, computer science, data science, or related field.
Core Competencies
* Executive Product leadership
* Product portfolio management
* AI platform strategy
* Platform and systems thinking
* Commerical support
* Cross-functional influence
* Market-backed prioritization
* Product operating model design
* Client and industry insight
* Execution discipline
* Strategic recommendation development
* Global stakeholder management
Success Measures
* Progress in scaling the AI Solutions Platform and three industry-focused AI products.
* Quality and maturity of product roadmaps, business cases, launch readiness, and investment recommendations.
* Adoption and reuse of shared platform capabilities across industry products and client environments.
* Reduction in bespoke delivery through repeatable product and platform patterns.
* Commercialization readiness, including demos, product narratives, packaging inputs, sales enablement, and st