Diamondback Energy Inc

AI Manager - Product Management

Diamondback Energy Inc$135K — $160K *
Energy & Utilities
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management or similar roles in technology-heavy environments.
  • 5+ years of management experience, specifically in developing teams.
  • Proven background in leading a portfolio of multiple products or initiatives simultaneously.
  • Expertise in creating product strategies, roadmaps, and business case frameworks.
  • Strong ability to balance strategic goals with stakeholder engagement and execution needs.
  • Experience tracking and managing KPIs for product and portfolio success.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of AI Product Owners and professionals.
  • Collaborate with leaders to turn enterprise opportunities into actionable product strategies and roadmaps.
  • Define and delineate business problems, user requirements, and success criteria for AI products.
  • Establish robust validation practices throughout the product development lifecycle.
  • Manage dependencies and delivery risks across business and tech teams.
  • Promote AI product adoption and ensure accountability for performance and improvement.
  • Relay portfolio performance and investment needs to senior leadership.

Benefits

  • Flexible work environment promoting collaboration and innovation.
  • Opportunities for professional development and continuous improvement.
  • Support for adopting AI technologies and methodologies.
  • Access to cutting-edge resources in the AI and tech landscape.
  • Engagement with a diverse team focusing on high-impact energy solutions.
Full Job Description

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The AI Manager – Product Management leads Diamondback Energy’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) product management function, translating business priorities and opportunities into well-defined AI products that deliver measurable business outcomes. This role leads and develops AI Product Owners, establishes consistent product discovery and management practices, and ensures products are grounded in clearly defined business problems, user needs, success measures, and value hypotheses. Serving as a primary connection between business stakeholders and AI delivery teams, the manager drives disciplined discovery, rapid validation, product definition, business acceptance, adoption, and continuous improvement across the AI portfolio.

Job Responsibilities:

Include but are not limited to

  • Lead, coach, and develop AI Product Owners and product professionals; set clear expectations for product judgment, discovery rigor, product definition, stakeholder engagement, and outcome accountability, and hold consistent standards for product quality and product management discipline across the team.
  • Partner with business leaders, the AI Portfolio Lead, and AI leadership to translate prioritized enterprise opportunities into product strategies, roadmaps, requirements, and prioritized delivery plans.
  • Ensure every AI product has a clearly defined business problem, target users and workflows, success measures, requirements, acceptance criteria, value hypothesis, and accountable business sponsor before progressing through significant investment, working with business sponsors, the AI Value & Economics Lead, and the AI Portfolio Lead to confirm the supporting evidence.
  • Establish and scale AI-native validation practices across the product lifecycle, from rapid prototyping, workflow simulation, data exploration, user testing, and vendor evaluation during discovery, through business validation and user acceptance testing against defined user needs, acceptance criteria, and expected business outcomes.
  • Identify and manage product-level dependencies, delivery risks, and barriers to value realization across business and technology teams.
  • Drive sustained adoption of AI products by partnering with business leaders, change management, training, and enablement teams, and hold Product Owners accountable for post-launch adoption, product performance, and continuous improvement using user feedback, usage data, business outcomes, and value realization insights.
  • Communicate portfolio performance, risks, investment needs, and realized value to senior leadership.
  • Establish and continuously improve Diamondback's AI product management standards, methods, tools, and templates while preserving flexibility across products and business domains and build product management capability across the organization so business stakeholders understand their role in problem definition, product decisions, validation, adoption, and value realization.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Management Information Systems, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of experience in product management, product leadership, digital delivery, or a related function within a technology-intensive, enterprise environment.
  • 5+ years of people management experience, with a demonstrated ability to develop high-performing teams.
  • Experience leading an enterprise product portfolio with multiple concurrent products or initiatives.
  • Experience developing product strategies, roadmaps, business cases, and prioritization frameworks.
  • Demonstrated ability to balance strategic direction, delivery execution, stakeholder needs, and governance requirements.
  • Experience establishing and managing KPIs to measure product and portfolio outcomes.

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Experience in oil and gas, energy, or another asset-intensive industrial sector.
  • Experience deploying generative AI, machine learning, or advanced analytics products in production environments.
  • Working knowledge of AI lifecycle management, responsible AI practices, and enterprise product operating models.
  • Experience establishing or scaling a product management function, portfolio governance model, or AI product capability.
  • Experience applying AI-enabled tools and rapid prototyping techniques during product discovery and solution validation.

About Diamondback Energy Inc

Diamondback Energy is an independent oil and natural gas company headquartered in Midland, TX. Diamondback’s growth strategy is focused on the acquisition, development, exploration and exploitation of unconventional, long-life, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the major oil producing Permian Basin in West Texas. The Company’s operations are directed primarily at the large acreage areas of the Clearfork, Spraberry, Wolfcamp, Cline, Strawn and Atoka formations, collectively known as the Wolfberry Trend.

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Learn more about Diamondback Energy Inc
Size
870 employees
Market Cap
$23.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$4.5 billion
Founded
2007
5 Year Trend
+66.8%
Revenue
$2.8 billion
NASDAQ

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