Vice President, Product Management

Summary

Join Sprout Social as the Vice President, Product Management - AI, Data, and Insights, leading the company's AI strategy, data science, and analytics. Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, you will transform AI integration into product development, fostering innovation and rapid iteration. This role involves defining and executing the platform-wide AI strategy, building data-driven frameworks, optimizing data infrastructure, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. You will also focus on customer needs, competitive advantage, and talent development within the AI team. This is a leadership position requiring significant experience in AI, data science, and product management within a SaaS environment. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits package.

Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in AI, data science, or analytics leadership roles, with at least 5 years in a product-driven SaaS environment
• Proven success leading AI and data initiatives in a multi-product portfolio company
• Expertise in AI/ML technologies, data engineering, and advanced analytics infrastructure
• Strong understanding of data governance, privacy, and compliance in SaaS products
• Demonstrated experience developing and scaling high-performance teams through hiring and coaching of product talent

Responsibilities

• Create a vision and cutting-edge AI strategy that is innovative, ambitious, and compelling, and be a passionate evangelist for how that vision will transform how our customers find value in Sprout’s product
• Define and execute our platform-wide AI strategy and serve as the leader of our AI teams
• Help our business identify opportunities to weave artificial intelligence into our product suite and enable our customers to accomplish more with less effort with the assistance of artificial intelligence
• Build frameworks that harness data insights to fuel groundbreaking product innovations, enhance user experiences, and drive operational excellence
• Partnering with your engineering counterparts, lead the optimization of data infrastructure and AI capabilities, enabling experimentation and rapid iteration while ensuring operational excellence
• Have a firm pulse on customer needs by actively engaging with our customers, evaluating opportunities, and driving competitive advantage
• Collaborate closely with key partners across GTM, product management, product design, and engineering to align business goals and deepen product and go-to-market opportunities
• Transform our portfolio by managing AI and data initiatives across Sprout’s product suite, ensuring a seamless integration with our product conceptual model and platform strategy while pioneering new AI-driven capabilities
• Establish Sprout as a career destination for product talent
• Hire, lead, and coach leaders and product managers in your organization and support their professional growth and development to increase their impact on the organization
• Have a pulse on the latest AI industry trends and best practices, and leverage this to evaluate opportunities, increase the quality and execution time of deploying models, and advise on potential adoption to drive competitive advantage
• Guide your teams to operate on a new level - working more effectively together to iteratively deliver best in class product and balance needs for critical customer pain points, all while driving continuous innovation and scaling our AI capabilities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience collaborating closely with product, design, engineering, and GTM leaders to deliver cohesive solutions
• Ability to translate technical concepts into actionable business strategies for executive stakeholders
• Demonstrated ability to lead large cross-functional teams and manage organizational change
• Experience aligning teams’ focus and vision towards the most impactful work across a complex product to meet the needs of a diverse, global customer base

Benefits

• Insurance and benefit options that are built for both individuals and families
• Progressive policies to support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave program
• High-quality and well-maintained equipment—your computer will never prevent you from doing your best
• Wellness initiatives to ensure both health and mental well-being of our team
• Ongoing education and development opportunities via our Grow@Sprout program and employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives
• Growing corporate social responsibility program that is driven by the involvement and passion of our team members
• Beautiful, convenient, and state-of-the-art offices in Chicago’s Loop and downtown Seattle, for those who prefer an office setting
• Whenever possible, Sprout wants to provide our team with the flexibility to work in the location that makes the most sense for them. Sprout maintains a remote workforce in many places in the United States. However, we are not set up in all states, so please look at the drop-down box in our application to see whether your state is listed. Few roles require an office setting. If your position requires a physical presence in a Sprout office, it will be evident in the job listing and your offer letter
• Employees (and their dependents) are covered by medical, dental, vision, basic life, accidental death, and dismemberment insurance, and Modern Health (a wellness benefit)
• Employees are able to enroll in Sprout’s company’s 401k plan, in which Sprout will match 50% of your contributions up to 6% with a maximum contribution
• Sprout offers “Flexible Paid Time Off” and ten paid holidays
• Every Sprout team member has an opportunity to receive restricted stock units (RSUs) under Sprout’s equity plan