The Role
Owns strategy, roadmap, delivery, adoption, and value realization for Data and AI products. Partners with business stakeholders and technical teams to identify opportunities, define requirements, scale products from prototypes to production, drive user adoption, measure business outcomes, and guide continuous improvement. The role is onsite four days per week in Beachwood, Ohio, with occasional travel as needed.
Summary Generated by Built In
Data & AI Products Manager
Locations: Irving TX, Reading PA, Dearborn MI, Duluth GA, or Beachwood OH (possible remote for the right candidate)
Shift: Monday - Friday 8am -5pm
Position Summary:
Leads the strategy, roadmap, adoption, and value realization of Data and AI products from validated opportunity through production and continuous improvement. The Product Manager owns the product roadmap and serves as the primary business liaison, partnering with PQS, Operations, and business stakeholders to understand operational needs, define and prioritize business problems, and translate them into product direction and measurable outcomes. The Product Manager owns user adoption and business value realization, including engagement, communication, training, feedback, outcome measurement, and demonstrating product impact. Partners with Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud Engineering, Security, IT, and other technical teams on feasibility, delivery planning, and technical execution to help products successfully scale from prototype to production, while technical teams remain accountable for how solutions are engineered and delivered
Major Responsibilities:
• Product Strategy & Roadmap – Owns the product vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities, requirements, and lifecycle for assigned Data and AI products, guiding products from validated opportunity and prototype through production and continuous improvement.
• Business & Customer Discovery – Serves as the primary business liaison and partners with PQS, Operations, and business stakeholders to understand customer and operational needs, define problems, validate opportunities, and establish product priorities and expected outcomes.
• Product Delivery & Scaling – Partners with Data Engineering, Data Science, Cloud Engineering, Security, IT, and other technical teams to assess feasibility, plan delivery, resolve dependencies, and transition products from prototype to scalable production solutions; technical teams remain accountable for technical execution.
• Adoption & Customer Engagement – Owns product adoption and user engagement, including stakeholder communication, training, change management, customer feedback, and ongoing engagement to ensure products are successfully integrated into business workflows.
• Value Realization & Product Performance – Owns the definition, measurement, and capture of expected business value, including time savings, cost savings, revenue impact, operational improvements, and other outcomes; uses performance and customer insights to demonstrate impact and guide roadmap decisions.
• Product Management Operating Model – Applies the established product management standards, processes, tools, and best practices to support the organization's transition from a project-based to product-oriented operating model.
• Other projects and tasks as assigned by manager.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, Information Systems, or related field required.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 4 years of product management, technology, analytics, data, or related functional experience required.
• Minimum of 1 year of experience managing Data, AI, analytics, or software products preferred.
• Advanced product management skills required.
• Advanced business & analytical capabilities required.
• Advanced execution & operating skills required.
• Intermediate technical & data fluency skills required.
• Intermediate AI product capabilities required.
• Stakeholder & leadership, teamwork, organization, and communication skills required.
• Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job.
• Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required schedule, work at the specific location required, complete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment, education, and criminal history) and drug screening are required.
Physical Requirements:
- The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The associate will be required to: read; communicate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus.
Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer
About Penske Logistics
Penske Logistics engineers state-of-the-art transportation, warehousing and supply chain management solutions that deliver powerful business results for market-leading companies. With operations in North America, South America, Europe and Asia, Penske and its associates help businesses move forward by increasing visibility and driving down supply-chain costs. Visit Penske Logistics to learn more.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Operations, Supply Chain, Logistics, Information Systems, or a related field
- Master's degree
- At least 4 years of product management, technology, analytics, data, or related functional experience
- At least 1 year managing Data, AI, analytics, or software products
- Advanced product management skills
- Advanced business and analytical capabilities
- Advanced execution and operating skills
- Intermediate technical and data fluency
- Intermediate AI product capabilities
- Stakeholder leadership, teamwork, organization, and communication skills
- Regular, predictable, full attendance
- Willingness to travel as necessary and work the required onsite schedule and location
- Successful background investigation, employment and education verification, and drug screening
Penske Logistics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Penske Logistics and has not been reviewed or approved by Penske Logistics.
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Retirement Support — Retirement options include a 401(k) and, in some driver roles, a 100% company‑funded pension that provides strong long‑term value. These retirement features are described as rare and valuable within certain assignments.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Paid vacation, holidays, and sick leave are part of the standard package, with some roles offering PTO starting on day one. Time‑off provisions are consistently presented alongside core benefits.
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Healthcare Strength — Medical, dental, vision, and hearing coverage are complemented by telemedicine, mental‑health support, and disability options. FSAs/HSAs and wellness resources contribute to broad healthcare coverage.
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The Company
What We Do
Penske Logistics is a Penske Transportation Solutions company. We provide supply chain management and logistics solutions to leading brands around the world. Penske Logistics delivers value through its design, planning and execution in transportation, warehousing, freight management, and dry-van truckload services. Penske offers customized supply chain and logistics solutions including: Dedicated Contract Carriage; Distribution Center Management; Freight Management; Freight Brokerage; Transportation Management Solutions (TMS); Lead Logistics Provider (LLP), Control Tower and 4PL Solutions. We serve a variety of industries including: automotive; food, beverage, grocery, wine and spirits; cold chain; convenience and drug stores; quick service restaurants (QSRs); retail; big box retailers; building and construction products; CPG; healthcare; industrial manufacturing; consumer appliances and consumer electronics; and many others.
