Senior AI Product Manager

Xylem ist ein Fortune 500 Wassertechnologieunternehmen mit global 23.000 Mitarbeitenden in über 100 Ländern und einer Mission: unseren Kunden durch innovative Technologielösungen und unser Fachwissen bei der Lösung von Wasserproblemen und
-herausforderungen zu helfen. Wir sind der weltweit führende Anbieter effizienter, innovativer und nachhaltiger Wassertechnologien, die dafür sorgen, dass unser Wasser nachhaltig genutzt, optimal verwaltet, erhalten und wiederverwendet wird.

The Senior AI Product Manager will lead product strategy, roadmap, and delivery for foundational AI platform solutions, including xylem.ai, Xylem’s secure internal platform for generative and enterprise AI capabilities. This role translates enterprise AI strategy into reusable, governed, scalable platform capabilities that accelerate adoption, reduce duplicative work, improve productivity, and enable responsible AI use across Xylem. The role partners closely with AI leadership, IT, Enterprise Architecture, Cybersecurity, Data Governance, Legal, Procurement, business stakeholders, and development teams to prioritize high-value capabilities, make sound platform decisions, and deliver secure, reusable AI products and services.

The successful candidate will combine strong product management discipline, technical depth, enterprise platform experience, and business acumen, with the ability to engage deeply with engineers and architects and contribute to prototyping, solution design, or architecture decisions when needed.

The successful candidate will typically have 10–15 years of relevant experience across product management, enterprise platforms, software engineering, AI/ML, data, digital transformation, or related technical leadership roles.

• Senior product management experience for enterprise platforms, AI/ML platforms, data platforms, SaaS products, or internal technology platforms.
• Demonstrated ownership of roadmaps, prioritization, backlog management, product requirements, release planning, adoption, and value realization.
• Hands-on technical depth with the ability to partner with engineers and architects and contribute to design, prototyping, architecture, and implementation tradeoffs.
• Experience delivering AI, generative AI, automation, or data-enabled products from concept through scalable deployment.
• Working knowledge of LLMs, RAG, AI agents, AI workflows, prompt orchestration, evaluation, telemetry, observability, APIs, cloud platforms, identity/access, and secure software practices.
• Experience applying governance, privacy, security, compliance, responsible AI, and risk-management requirements to product and platform decisions.
• Experience operating in complex, global, matrixed, or regulated environments preferred.

• Education Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, Product Management, Business, or related field preferred.
• Advanced degree preferred but not required.
• Equivalent combination of education, technical depth, product experience, and enterprise platform leadership experience may be considered.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect platform investments to productivity, operational efficiency, customer impact, risk reduction, growth enablement, and measurable value.
• Strategic thinker who can translate enterprise AI priorities into clear product decisions and execution plans.
• Strong prioritization, product judgment, and scope discipline, balancing value, feasibility, risk, security, compliance, user experience, and delivery capacity.
• Ability to translate technical concepts into business decisions and business needs into actionable requirements.
• Strong communication, stakeholder influence, and cross-functional leadership skills across technical teams, business teams, governance bodies, and senior leaders.
• Passion for responsible innovation, ethical AI, user-centered product development, and enterprise change leadership.

The salary range for this position is $165,000 to $180,000 plus bonus. Starting pay is dependent on multiple…