Senior Director, AI Banking Solutions Product Leader

Req

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We are currently seeking a Senior Director, AI Banking Solutions Product Leader to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Position Summary

We are seeking a Senior Director, AI Banking Solutions Product Leader to shape, build, and scale a portfolio of AI-powered Service-as-Software solutions for the banking industry.

This role reports to the Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader and leads the industry product agenda within the broader AI Solutions Platform portfolio. The leader will translate industry needs into repeatable AI product concepts, guide product execution, support commercialization, and partner closely with Forward Deployed Engineering, Product Engineering, industry, sales, delivery, and platform teams.

This is not a traditional product owner or consulting delivery role. It is a senior product leadership role focused on moving from bespoke services to reusable, platform-led AI products. Final investment decisions, enterprise business ownership, and end-to-end commercial accountability remain with executive governance and business leadership.

Role Mandate

* Shape the product strategy and roadmap for AI Banking Solutions.

* Identify high-value use cases across retail banking, commercial banking, payments, lending, customer servicing, risk, compliance, and operations.

* Guide MVP definition, product build, launch readiness, adoption, and continuous improvement.

* Ensure industry products leverage shared AI platform capabilities and the 70% standardized / 30% configurable model.

* Support commercialization through product narratives, solution packaging, sales enablement, and strategic pursuit support.

* Convert market and client learning into reusable product patterns, accelerators, and roadmap recommendations.

Key Responsibilities

1. Shape Industry Product Strategy

* Develop and refine the product strategy for AI Banking Solutions, aligned to the broader AI Solutions Platform and Service-as-Software strategy.

* Assess client needs, market demand, competitive trends, regulatory considerations, and industry shifts such as digital banking, embedded finance, real-time payments, AI-enabled lending, financial crime operations, risk and compliance modernization, and customer service transformation.

* Recommend roadmap priorities, product sequencing, business cases, and investment trade-offs for review by the Executive, AI Solutions Product Leader and senior governance forums.

* Define where capabilities should be standardized through the shared AI platform versus configured for industry-specific needs.

2. Lead Product Execution

* Own day-to-day product leadership for the industry portfolio, from idea shaping and MVP definition through launch readiness and ongoing improvement.

* Define and prioritize roadmaps, epics, features, release plans, and product maturity milestones.

* Partner with engineering, AI/ML, architecture, cloud, security, delivery, and FDE teams to translate product priorities into executable build plans.

* Ensure products meet enterprise expectations for security, compliance, reliability, explainability, usability, and operational readiness.

3. Build Reusable, Platform-Led Solutions

* Design products using the 70% standardized / 30% configurable model to improve repeatability, scalability, speed to value, and margin potential.

* Ensure solutions can integrate with core banking systems, payments platforms, lending systems, risk and compliance platforms, CRM, data, workflow, and enterprise applications.

* Identify common client patterns that should become reusable workflows, agent capabilities, templates, data models, integrations, or platform services.

* Reduce bespoke delivery by working with platform, FDE, and engineering teams to industrialize repeatable assets.

4. Support Commercialization and Market Activation

* Support GTM, sales, client executives, industry leaders, finance, and marketing in product positioning and market activation.

* Contribute to packaging, pricing inputs, value propositions, sales enablement, demos, product narratives, and executive client materials.

* Support strategic pursuits where the industry AI product portfolio is central to the opportunity.

* Help connect product capabilities to pipeline creation, TCV contribution, revenue realization, and margin improvement while overall commercial ownership remains with business and sales leadership.

5. Build Cross-Functional Alignment

* Serve as the industry product connector across AI strategy, platform product, industry teams, FDE, product engineering, delivery, sales, finance, marketing, and client leadership.

* Create alignment around roadmap priorities, product standards, launch readiness, client adoption, and commercialization plans.

* Resolve working-level trade-offs where possible and escalate strategic decisions through…