Director of Product Management- Core AI

About the role

Core AI sits at the intersection of product strategy, platform thinking, applied AI, and healthcare workflow transformation. You'll partner across product, engineering, design, data science, clinical, legal, compliance, security, and business teams to build the capabilities that make AI faster, safer, more consistent, and more impactful across athenaOne . Essential Job Responsibilities : Product strategy and vision Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Core AI aligned to athena's broader AI-native athenaOne strategy. Identify the shared platform capabilities, standards, and operating models needed to accelerate AI adoption across athenaOne . Translate emerging AI trends into pragmatic product opportunities that improve workflows and reduce administrative burden. Define where athena should standardize AI capabilities centrally versus where product teams should innovate independently. Develop investment cases, prioritization frameworks, and success metrics. AI platform and agent platform leadership Lead strategy for Core AI platform components, including reusable services, tooling, orchestration, evaluation, and governance. Own product direction for athena's agent platform, enabling teams to build, deploy, monitor , and improve AI agents safely and efficiently. Partner with engineering and architecture leaders to define scalable, secure, reliable, extensible platform capabilities. Drive requirements for prompt and context management, orchestration, human-in-the-loop workflows, tool use, memory, model routing, evaluation, observability, safety controls, and lifecycle management. Ensure the platform supports rapid experimentation while maintaining healthcare-grade reliability, compliance, and trust. Cross-functional execution Partner with product teams across athenaOne to identify common AI needs, remove duplication, and accelerate delivery. Work closely with R&D, clinical, legal, compliance, privacy, and security partners to deliver safe and useful capabilities. Build feedback loops with internal product teams as platform customers. Communicate priorities, tradeoffs, dependencies, risks, and progress to senior stakeholders. Lead through influence in a matrixed organization. Additional Job Responsibilities: Product delivery and outcomes Own roadmap planning, prioritization, release planning, adoption goals, and outcome measurement. Track success metrics such as adoption, development velocity, reuse, quality, reliability, safety, and business impact. Ensure strong product discipline with clear problem definition, user needs, measurable outcomes, and iterative learning. Partner with go-to-market, enablement, and internal communications teams to drive awareness and adoption. Continuously improve usability, reliability, and impact. Leadership and talent development Build, lead, and develop a high-performing product management team focused on Core AI. Coach PMs on platform product management, AI product strategy, stakeholder management, and outcome-oriented execution. Create a team culture grounded in curiosity, accountability, collaboration, technical depth, and customer impact. Represent Core AI in executive forums and strategic planning discussions. Expected Education & Experienc e : 10+ years of product management experience, including significant experience with platform, infrastructure, enterprise SaaS, AI/ML, data, or developer-facing products. 3+ years of direct experience with AI/ML, generative AI, agentic systems, data products, intelligent automation, or related technologies. Proven ability to define and execute product strategy for complex technical platforms used by multiple teams. Strong understanding of modern AI product concepts, including LLMs, RAG, agents, evaluation, observability, safety, model performance, and human-in-the-loop workflows. Experience leading product managers or cross-functional product teams. Ability to operate in ambiguous environments, create structure, and drive alignment across senior stakeholders. Strong technical fl