Product Management Lead – Trust Platform

Leading at Cognizant

This is a Leadership role  believe how you lead is as important as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level:
Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future.
Live the leadership behaviors
, leading themselves, others and the business.
Uphold our Values
, role modeling themin every action and decision.
Nurture our people and culture
, creating a workplace where all can thrive.

At Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture.

Cognizant is hiring a senior product leader to own the Trust Platform end to end. This platform sits at the center of how Cognizant and its clients establish trust in AI and digital systems, spanning trust and safety, identity and fraud risk, and compliance and data governance. The role reports directly to the Chief Responsible AI Officer and carries full accountability for platform strategy, roadmap, and outcomes.

This is a lead role. The person in this seat sets direction for the platform, represents it to executive stakeholders and clients, and may manage an engineering team depending on how the org is structured at the time of hire. Cognizant is looking for someone who has done this before, at scale, in a regulated or high-stakes environment.

• Overall product strategy and roadmap for the Trust Platform, covering trust and safety, identity/fraud risk, and compliance and data governance capabilities.
• Translation of Responsible AI principles into concrete platform requirements, working directly with the Chief Responsible AI Officer and legal, security, and compliance leadership.
• Prioritization and trade‑off decisions across a broad and sometimes competing set of stakeholder needs, including engineering, legal, security, sales, and client delivery teams.
• Platform architecture decisions in partnership with engineering leadership, including build versus buy calls on trust, safety, and risk tooling.
• A team of product managers and, depending on structure, an engineering team, with direct hiring and performance management responsibility.
• Executive-level reporting on platform health, risk posture, and adoption, including direct presentations to senior leadership and, where relevant, clients and regulators.
• Vendor and partner evaluation for trust, identity, fraud, and compliance technology.
• Consistently demonstrate the Cognizant Way to Lead
  , which means operating with Personal Leadership (building trust, collaboration, and inclusion),
  Organizational Leadership (driving vision and purpose, demonstrating a strategic and enterprise mindset, and creating and communicating a bold direction that inspires purpose), and Business Leadership (exemplifying client focus, managing ambiguity with accountability and results, and operating with financial acumen)

• 15+ years in product management, with at least 5 years in a senior leadership role owning a platform or major product line.
• Direct experience building or scaling products in trust and safety, identity/fraud, risk, or compliance and data governance. Experience across more than one of these areas is strongly preferred given the scope of this platform.
• A track record of operating in regulated or high‑scrutiny environments, where decisions need to hold up to legal, security, and audit review.
• Demonstrated success taking products from concept through launch and into GA, including at least one 0-to-1 launch owned end to end and one experience scaling an existing product post‑launch.
• Comfort working directly with C‑suite stakeholders and translating ambiguous,…