Senior Product Manager – DNA

It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Summary:

The Staff Technical Product Manager supports the structured execution, adoption, and expansion of Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence initiatives. The role works across product, business, engineering, infrastructure, and operational stakeholders to translate agreed product direction into organized backlogs, coordinated delivery routines, documented decisions, transparent progress, user feedback, effective communications, and transition readiness.

The position helps teams scale capabilities already built by improving reuse, documentation, communication, adoption, and expansion readiness. It also supports new initiatives by coordinating discovery activities, workshops, stakeholder inputs, feedback, dependencies, and follow-through.

To be successful in this role, you should have a strong background in Data & AI strategy definition and implementation, coupled with excellent leadership and communication skills. Experience in people management and a deep understanding of the business and technology landscape are also highly desirable.

If you are a strategic thinker, a passionate advocate for Data & AI innovation, and a collaborative leader, this Director of AI Strategy role presents an exciting opportunity to drive the organization's digital transformation and shape the future of its AI capabilities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1.   Operate a consistent product and delivery cadence across assigned initiatives, including backlog reviews, Sprint planning, daily or regular Scrum meetings, demonstrations, retrospectives, project reviews, and dependency discussions.

2.   Maintain product and initiative backlogs in coordination with portfolio leadership, Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and technical leads, ensuring that items are clear, traceable, prioritized through the agreed process, and ready for execution.

3.   Coordinating with Engineering Managers and technical leads to track delivery progress against agreed backlog items, milestones, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and documented decisions.

4.   Ensure progress visibility for infrastructure, platform, data, security, and other enabling initiatives by aggregating updates from responsible owners and highlighting significant dependencies or risks

5.   Organize and facilitate discovery, product, business, and engineering workshops after the product vision and strategic direction have been established; prepare objectives and pre-work, coordinate participants, capture decisions, and track actions.

6.   Plan user demonstrations, feedback sessions, testing discussions, and adoption reviews; document feedback, structure themes, route inputs to the appropriate owners, and track agreed responses.

7.   Help scale capabilities already delivered by coordinating reusable documentation, playbooks, templates, user guidance, communication materials, knowledge transfer, adoption actions, and expansion readiness.

8.   Prepare presentations, portfolio updates, meeting packs, agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, status summaries, and stakeholder communications based on agreed product and portfolio direction.

9.     Keep product and initiative documentation accurate and up to date, covering requirements, assumptions, acceptance criteria, decisions, open questions, ownership, dependencies, lessons learned, handover details, and evidence of benefits.

10.  Coordinate transition and operational readiness, ensuring that documentation, support ownership, user readiness, training inputs, communication, and post-implementation follow-up are planned and tracked.

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• University degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required.
• This position requires a minimum of 7 -10 years’ experience, with hands on experience in the Data & AI Product Management and project management area

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A good understanding of various Data platforms, Cloud or on-prem (Datalake, DWH, Datamarts, Document management, Data interoperability (ETL, API mgt)
• Abilities to define a data & AI platform as a service for enabling other IT teams to benefit from it.

·       7-10 years of overall professional experience in product management, technology program management, digital delivery, data and analytics, business transformation, product operations, or a related field.

·       At least 2-3 years of experience in a comparable Product Manager, Product Operations, Agile Program, or technology delivery coordination role.

·       Experience running Agile or Scrum ceremonies and maintaining backlogs across one or more business and technology initiatives.

·       Experience coordinating Engineering Managers, technical leads, developers, business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and users in a matrixed environment.

·       Experience tracking progress, risks, dependencies, milestones, decisions, and actions across concurrent initiatives.

·       Experience facilitating workshops, demonstrations, feedback sessions, planning discussions, and cross-functional working meetings.

·       Experience preparing clear presentations, status reports, pre-reads, decision materials, process documentation, and user-facing communications.

·       Experience supporting adoption, transition, knowledge transfer, reuse, standardization, or expansion of technology-enabled capabilities.

·       Working knowledge of Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, digital products, cloud or infrastructure initiatives, and responsible technology delivery practices.

·       Demonstrated ability to influence follow-through without direct authority while respecting product, portfolio, and engineering accountabilities.

·       Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and adapt to changing business priorities.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

• This position is one that would normally require the person to work in a temperature-controlled office environment with other professional and management employees and continent workers, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment. 
• This position will require the employee to maintain hours during a typical day to overlap with team members and business users around the world with special attention to people in the time zones of India, Paris, and the Eastern U.S.
• This position will likely require the employee to travel a few times annually to physically meet with managers or team members.

About You

• You bring structure and momentum to complex initiatives without adding unnecessary process.
• You are confident facilitating Scrum ceremonies and product discussions with Engineering Managers, technical leads, senior developers, business stakeholders, and users.
• You can convert product direction and workshop discussions into clear backlog items, decisions, requirements, actions, and communication materials.
• You are highly organized and comfortable managing multiple timelines, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder commitments.
• You communicate clearly in writing and verbally and can prepare concise, leadership-ready presentations and pre-read materials.
• You listen carefully to users, separate observations from requirements, document feedback objectively, and support evidence-based prioritization.
• You can challenge missing information, unclear ownership, delayed actions, or unmanaged dependencies constructively and respectfully.
• You understand the difference between tracking engineering progress and managing technical quality or individual developer performance.
• You are motivated by scalable outcomes and help teams reuse, document, communicate, adopt, and expand capabilities already built.
• You are a collaborative self-starter who works within agreed portfolio strategy and product vision while taking ownership of execution discipline and follow-through.

Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.   

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the opportunity to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… People like you! Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.

What could you accomplish in a place that puts People First?

At Wabtec, it’s not just about a job - it’s about the impact you make. When our people come together, we’re Expanding the Possible by continuously improving what we do and how we do it - for our clients and each other.

If you’re ready to revolutionize how the world moves for future generations, Wabtec is the place for you.
 

Who are we?

Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on more than 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it’s freight, transit, ports, logistics, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people together – are accelerating the future of transportation. With roots that date back to George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Louis Faiveley, Wabtec has always built technologies and implemented solutions for a variety of sectors that are critical to meeting the needs of customers and governments alike.

Our global team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward. We’re lifelong learners, obsessed with better. Learn more at www.WabtecCorp.com.

Culture powers us and the possibilities.

We believe the best ideas come from a mix of experiences and backgrounds. At Wabtec, we strive every day to create a place where everyone belongs. We’re building a culture where leadership, inclusion and your unique perspective fuel progress.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome talent of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including race, gender, age, disability, veteran status and more.

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