Senior Product Manager – DNA

Job Description It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us.

Who are we?

Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems.

Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!

Summary:

The Staff Technical Product Manager supports the structured execution, adoption, and expansion of Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence initiatives. The role works across product, business, engineering, infrastructure, and operational stakeholders to translate agreed product direction into organized backlogs, coordinated delivery routines, documented decisions, transparent progress, user feedback, effective communications, and transition readiness. The position helps teams scale capabilities already built by improving reuse, documentation, communication, adoption, and expansion readiness. It also supports new initiatives by coordinating discovery activities, workshops, stakeholder inputs, feedback, dependencies, and follow-through. To be successful in this role, you should have a strong background in Data & AI strategy definition and implementation, coupled with excellent leadership and communication skills. Experience in people management and a deep understanding of the business and technology landscape are also highly desirable. If you are a strategic thinker, a passionate advocate for Data & AI innovation, and a collaborative leader, this Director of AI Strategy role presents an exciting opportunity to drive the organization's digital transformation and shape the future of its AI capabilities.

Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Operate a consistent product and delivery cadence across assigned initiatives, including backlog reviews, Sprint planning, daily or regular Scrum meetings, demonstrations, retrospectives, project reviews, and dependency discussions. 2. Maintain product and initiative backlogs in coordination with portfolio leadership, Product Owners, Engineering Managers, and technical leads, ensuring that items are clear, traceable, prioritized through the agreed process, and ready for execution. 3. Coordinating with Engineering Managers and technical leads to track delivery progress against agreed backlog items, milestones, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and documented decisions. 4. Ensure progress visibility for infrastructure, platform, data, security, and other enabling initiatives by aggregating updates from responsible owners and highlighting significant dependencies or risks 5. Organize and facilitate discovery, product, business, and engineering workshops after the product vision and strategic direction have been established; prepare objectives and pre-work, coordinate participants, capture decisions, and track actions. 6. Plan user demonstrations, feedback sessions, testing discussions, and adoption reviews; document feedback, structure themes, route inputs to the appropriate owners, and track agreed responses. 7. Help scale capabilities already delivered by coordinating reusable documentation, playbooks, templates, user guidance, communication materials, knowledge transfer, adoption actions, and expansion readiness. 8. Prepare presentations, portfolio updates, meeting packs, agendas, pre-reads, decision logs, status summaries, and stakeholder communications based on agreed product and portfolio direction. 9. Keep product and initiative documentation accurate and up to date, covering requirements, assumptions, acceptance criteria, decisions, open questions, ownership, dependencies, lessons learned, handover details, and evidence of benefits. 10. Coordinate transition and operational readiness, ensuring that documentation, support ownership, user readiness, training inputs, communication, and post-implementation follow-up are planned and tracked. Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• A good understanding of various Data platforms, Cloud or on-prem (Datalake, DWH, Datamarts, Document management, Data interoperability (ETL, API mgt) • Abilities to define a data & AI platform as a service for enabling other IT teams to benefit from it. · 7-10 years of overall professional experience in product management, technology program management, digital delivery, data and analytics, business transformation, product operations, or a related field. · At least 2-3 years of experience in a comparable Product Manager, Product Operations, Agile Program, or technology delivery coordination role. · Experience

Additional Information What could you accomplish in a place that puts People First? At Wabtec, it’s not just about a job - it’s about the impact you make. When our people come together, we’re Expanding the Possible by continuously improving what we do and how we do it - for our clients and each other. If you’re ready to revolutionize how the world moves for future generations, Wabtec is the place for you.

Who are we? Wabtec is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for the freight and transit rail sectors. Drawing on more than 150 years of experience, we are leading the way in safety, efficiency, reliability, innovation, and productivity. Whether it’s freight, transit, ports, logistics, mining, industrial, or marine, our expertise, technologies, and people together – are accelerating the future of transportation. With roots that date back to George Westinghouse, Thomas Edison, and Louis Faiveley, Wabtec has always built technologies and implemented solutions for a variety of sectors that are critical to meeting the needs of customers and governments alike. Our global team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward. We’re lifelong learners, obsessed with better. Learn more at www.WabtecCorp.com. Culture powers us and the possibilities. We believe the best ideas come from a mix of experiences and backgrounds. At Wabtec, we strive every day to create a place where everyone belongs. We’re building a culture where leadership, inclusion and your unique perspective fuel progress.

We’re proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome talent of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including race, gender, age, disability, veteran status and more. Need accommodation? Just let us know - we’ve got you.