[Hiring] Managing Director, AI Solutions Product Leader @NTT DATA Services

Role Description

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.
• 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.

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
• Commercial 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 strategic pursuit support.
• Strength of alignment across AI Solutions Product, Product Engineering, Forward Deployed Engineering, AI Vista, AI Market Makers, industry, sales, and delivery teams.
• Effectiveness of the senior product leaders reporting into the role.

Why Join Us

This is an opportunity to establish executive product leadership for a new AI Service-as-Software growth model at NTT DATA. You will lead a high-caliber product organization, shape a $125M current-year strategic bet expected to grow to $800M+ in three years, and help turn AI capabilities into repeatable, scalable, platform-led offerings for global clients.

You will not simply manage a product backlog. You will build the product discipline, operating model, and portfolio needed to scale AI Native products across industries.