Diamondback Energy Inc

AI Product Owner - Engineering

Diamondback Energy Inc$110K — $130K *
Energy & Utilities
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant technical field (e.g., Engineering, Data Science).
  • 5+ years of experience in oil and gas operations like drilling or production.
  • Proven capability in leading cross-functional tech or business transformation projects.
  • Ability to convert operational workflows into actionable requirements and measurable outcomes.
  • Experience with operational and analytics data tools, like Python and Power BI.
  • Background in delivering AI and analytics products from inception to adoption.

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with various stakeholders to understand workflows and identify AI opportunities.
  • Define business problems, product vision, and expected outcomes in partnership with business sponsors.
  • Conduct product discovery to validate user needs and business problems through experiments.
  • Translate business needs into detailed product requirements and success criteria.
  • Manage product backlog and prioritize decisions based on defined user needs and expected outcomes.
  • Work with technical experts to deliver compliant AI solutions that meet operational requirements.
  • Oversee post-launch product performance and drive continuous improvements based on user feedback.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health insurance options.
  • 401(k) retirement plan with company match.
  • Professional development and training opportunities.
  • Generous paid time off and holidays.
  • Supportive work culture that promotes diversity and inclusion.
Full Job Description

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The AI Product Owner - Engineering serves as the primary business representative for Artificial Intelligence (AI) products supporting Diamondback Energy's Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing, and related field operations workflows. This role owns the product outcome lifecycle from opportunity identification and discovery through prioritization, product definition, business validation, adoption, value realization, and continuous improvement. The Product Owner partners with AI Engineering & Delivery and other technology teams for technical feasibility, solution engineering, productionization, deployment, and technical operations. The Product Owner combines operational domain knowledge, product ownership skills, and AI fluency to deliver responsible solutions that improve operational efficiency, production optimization, field execution, commercial performance, and operational decision-making across the asset lifecycle.

Job Responsibilities:

Include but are not limited to

  • Partner with Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing, and related stakeholders to understand workflows, user needs, data requirements, controls, and operational challenges, and identify, evaluate, and prioritize AI and automation opportunities based on business value, technical feasibility, risk, data readiness, and strategic alignment.
  • Own the business problem definition, product vision, target users and workflows, value hypothesis, roadmap, priorities, success measures, and expected business outcomes, partnering with business sponsors and the AI Value & Economics Lead to establish baseline performance and the approach for measuring realized outcomes before significant investment.
  • Lead product discovery to validate the business problem, user needs, workflows, constraints, value hypothesis, and potential solution approaches before significant production investment, using rapid prototypes, workflow simulations, data exploration, user testing, vendor capability assessment, and other lightweight experiments to reduce uncertainty and test assumptions.
  • Translate business needs into clear product requirements, user stories, success criteria, acceptance criteria, and AI quality expectations.
  • Manage the product backlog and make product scope and priority decisions; lead business validation and user acceptance testing; and hold product acceptance decision rights against defined requirements, acceptance criteria, user needs, and expected business outcomes.
  • Partner with technology, data, security, governance, legal, risk, and operational subject matter experts to deliver scalable solutions that meet responsible AI, confidentiality, data quality, and compliance requirements.
  • Represent Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, and Marketing stakeholder needs; coordinate cross-functional dependencies with Geoscience, Reservoir Engineering, Finance, and other business functions; and support user readiness and adoption.
  • Own post-launch product performance and continuous improvement by monitoring adoption, AI performance, business outcomes, realized value, user feedback, and relevant risk measures, and prioritize the changes needed to improve product outcomes.

Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Data Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field
  • 5+ years of experience supporting drilling, completions, production operations, marketing, or a closely related operational function within oil and gas
  • Experience leading cross-functional technology, analytics, process improvement, or business transformation initiatives in an operational environment
  • Experience translating operational workflows and business needs into clear requirements, priorities, and measurable outcomes
  • Experience working with operational, engineering, production, field, commercial, or analytics data and systems, including technologies such as Spotfire, WellView, Ignition, Snowflake, XSPOC, Python, Power BI, and similar platforms
  • Experience delivering or supporting AI, machine learning, automation, data, or analytics products from concept through adoption

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Direct Product Owner experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, user stories, and acceptance criteria in an Agile environment
  • Experience using AI-enabled rapid product discovery techniques, including prototyping, user testing, workflow simulation, data exploration, or lightweight experimentation to test assumptions and reduce uncertainty before development.
  • Knowledge of AI model evaluation, operational data practices, responsible AI governance, model risk controls, and data quality requirements
  • Experience leading digital transformation or change adoption across Drilling, Completions, Production Operations, Marketing, or field operations teams
  • Familiarity with drilling performance optimization, completions execution, production surveillance, artificial lift optimization, production forecasting, operational reporting, and field data management workflows

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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