Principal Solution Owner

As a Principal Solution Owner, you’ll be senior owner for data and AI solutions—bridging client business goals with modern data platforms and products. 

Core Responsibilities

• Own solution vision and roadmap for client data and AI platforms/products: align strategies to business objectives, identify innovation opportunities, and guide clients toward higher data maturity and data‑driven decision making.

• Be the primary point of contact and trusted advisor to executive and senior stakeholders—clarifying objectives, shaping KPIs/success metrics, and ensuring outcomes map to client value and ROI.

• Translate business needs into actionable technical direction: work with architects, engineers, analysts, and change leaders to define solution scope, requirements, and a product‑based approach to data investments (platform, products, applications, services).

• Lead planning and execution using agile practices: coordinate cross-functional teams, timelines, and dependencies; manage risk, scope, and trade‑offs across multiple concurrent initiatives.

• Establish and operationalize KPIs for business, customer, product, and teams—track performance, communicate status, and drive course corrections with data.

• Ensure quality, adoption, and continuous improvement of solutions through testing, validation, stakeholder feedback, and iteration; connect solution changes to organizational change management needs.

• Support business development by shaping solution narratives, contributing to proposals, and participating in client pitches to showcase phData’s capabilities and approach.

• Stay current on industry trends, emerging technologies, and best practices in data, analytics, and AI; share insights to elevate client strategies and internal practice maturity.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in product management roles focused on data, analytics, or AI platforms and products.

• Consulting experience with external clients, managing multiple priorities and stakeholders, including sales.

• Strong data and AI literacy:

  • Experience with modern cloud data platforms and complementary tooling.

  • Understanding of data modeling/semantic modeling, analytics, and how AI/ML applications solve business problems.

  • Familiarity with data and AI architecture and governance concepts.

• Proven ability to lead diverse, cross-functional teams (technical and non‑technical) in an agile environment—directly or through influence—including analysts, engineers, architects, and change leaders.

• Demonstrated strength in client relationship management:

  • Building trusted relationships with executive/c-level stakeholders.

  • Translating complex business needs into practical technical solutions.

  • Communicating complex concepts clearly to both technical and business audiences.

• Solid grasp of agile and product development life cycles, including backlog management, iterative delivery, and KPI‑driven decision making.

• Experience working within change-heavy transformations (digital, data, analytics, AI), with an understanding of change management principles and how to drive adoption of new platforms and products.

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision‑making skills; able to manage multiple initiatives at once and stay oriented to the “big picture” under pressure.

• Excellent leadership, communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, including crafting and delivering compelling solution and strategy narratives.

• Proficiency with project and product management tools and AI‑enabled execution tooling.

• Willingness to travel as required by clients.