Lead Business Technical Product Owner

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Summary

In this role, you will lead the strategic direction, prioritization, and execution of Vizient's enterprise Automation-as-a-Product program. Serving as the Business Technical Product Owner (BTPO), you will bridge business priorities with technical delivery by managing the overall Automation program including Robotic Process Automation (RPA). AI tool intake process, maintaining the automation product backlog, and driving adoption of approved AI and automation capabilities.

You will partner closely with business leaders, technology teams, AI governance, and delivery partners to ensure automation initiatives align with organizational priorities, deliver measurable business value, and are executed using disciplined product management practices. This role is responsible for translating business needs into actionable product roadmaps, prioritizing investments based on strategic impact, and ensuring solutions are delivered efficiently while supporting responsible and scalable AI adoption across the enterprise.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise AI tool intake process, receiving, evaluating, prioritizing, and managing requests from business stakeholders while maintaining defined service level expectations.
• Triage incoming AI and automation requests using established governance frameworks and provide structured recommendations for governance review and approval.
• Communicate intake decisions, approval status, and prioritization rationale to stakeholders while escalating policy and risk-related decisions to AI Governance leadership as appropriate.
• Maintain visibility into the enterprise automation intake pipeline through transparent backlog and request management.
• Own and maintain the enterprise automation product backlog, defining, refining, and prioritizing work based on business value, strategic objectives, risk, and organizational priorities.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate a rolling automation product roadmap while presenting roadmap updates and product strategy to executive leadership.
• Translate business requirements into well-defined user stories, acceptance criteria, business outcomes, and measurable success metrics.
• Make and document prioritization decisions and product tradeoffs to maximize enterprise value and ensure alignment with organizational strategy.
• Serve as the technical product owner for Microsoft Copilot and approved enterprise AI solutions, partnering with Microsoft 365 platform teams to manage configuration and administration within established governance policies.
• Oversee the end-to-end deployment lifecycle for approved AI and automation solutions, including pilot execution, production rollout, integration validation, quality assurance, and release planning.
• Establish and maintain technical standards, solution architecture patterns, and integration best practices for enterprise automation capabilities.
• Partner with AI Enablement, Learning & Development, Organizational Change Management, and Strategic Communications teams to ensure successful adoption, change readiness, and user enablement.
• Provide product capability documentation, roadmap updates, and use case guidance to support enterprise AI education and training initiatives.

Qualifications

• Relevant degree preferred.
• 7 or more years of experience serving as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar product leadership role required.
• Experience managing internal technology platforms, digital workplace products, or enterprise services required.
• Experience working within Microsoft 365 environments, endpoint management, or IT service management platforms such as ServiceNow or Ivanti required.
• Experience leveraging Digital Employee Experience (DEX) tools, telemetry, analytics, and user feedback to drive product decisions required.
• Demonstrated ability to collect and translate Voice of the Customer (VOC) insights into prioritized product backlogs and roadmap initiatives required. <