Associate Principal, Platform Product Management role at Vizient shaping enterprise platform direction across internal capability areas. Owns platform strategy, team leadership, organisational capability development, investment prioritisation, and delivery outcomes supporting product, engineering, AI Delivery, and enterprise architecture initiatives.
What you'll do
- Define multi-domain platform product strategy connecting internal capabilities, engineering priorities, AI Delivery, architecture direction, AIDLC practices and enterprise product needs
- Identify high-leverage platform opportunities improving reuse, scalability, governance, developer productivity, AI-assisted delivery quality and speed to value
- Shape long-term roadmaps for internal platform capabilities, including migration strategy, adoption pathways, investment sequencing and AI-first operating model evolution
- Create strategic narratives and decision frameworks helping leaders prioritise platform investments
- Serve as a recognised expert in platform product management, internal developer enablement or AI-enabled platform capabilities
- Partner with senior engineering and architecture leaders to evaluate platform tradeoffs, capability boundaries and governance models
- Influence standards for reusable capabilities, platform adoption, measurement and responsible AI use
- Anticipate emerging needs related to AI delivery, data/knowledge platforms, automation, security and observability
- Advise platform product leaders on strategy, discovery, stakeholder alignment and executive communication
- Lead the most ambiguous or cross-cutting platform initiatives without requiring large-team ownership
- Represent platform product strategy in executive and senior technical forums
- Build product capability through coaching, examples, reusable frameworks and prompt/context patterns
- Build, lead and develop a high-performing team of platform product managers
- Establish role clarity, operating models, performance expectations and career development plans for platform product talent
What we're looking for
- Proven success shaping enterprise-scale platform strategy and influencing senior leaders
- Deep expertise in one or more internal platform domains such as data platforms, AI/ML enablement or internal developer platforms
- Recognised fluency using AI tools and advising on responsible AI-first product practices
- Builds and develops high-performing platform product teams
- Creates organisational alignment around platform strategy and execution
- Holds teams accountable for platform adoption, business outcomes and delivery results
- Develops future platform product leaders and succession pipelines
- Balances strategic vision with operational execution