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. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more!
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.

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.
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.
Coordinating with Engineering Managers and technical leads to track delivery progress against agreed backlog items, milestones, acceptance criteria, risks, dependencies, and documented decisions.
Ensure progress visibility for infrastructure, platform, data, security, and other enabling initiatives by aggregating updates from responsible owners and highlighting significant dependencies or risks
Organize and facilitate discovery, product, business,



and engineering workshops after the product vision and strategic direction have been established; Plan user demonstrations, feedback sessions, testing discussions, and adoption reviews; Help scale capabilities already delivered by coordinating reusable documentation, playbooks, templates, user guidance, communication materials, knowledge transfer, adoption actions, and expansion readiness.
Coordinate transition and operational readiness, ensuring that documentation, support ownership, user readiness, training inputs, communication, and post-implementation follow-up are planned and tracked.
University degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience required.
This position requires a minimum of 7 -10 years’ experience, with hands on experience in the Data & AI Product Management and project management area

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 running Agile or Scrum ceremonies and maintaining backlogs across one or more business and technology initiatives.
- Experience coordinating Engineering Managers, technical leads, developers, business stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and users in a matrixed environment.
- Experience tracking progress, risks, dependencies, milestones, decisions, and actions across concurrent initiatives.
- Experience facilitating workshops, demonstrations, feedback sessions, planning discussions, and cross-functional working meetings.
- Experience preparing clear presentations, status reports, pre-reads, decision materials, process documentation, and user-facing communications.
- Experience supporting adoption, transition, knowledge transfer, reuse, standardization, or expansion of technology-enabled capabilities.
- Working knowledge of Data, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, digital products, cloud or infrastructure initiatives, and responsible technology delivery practices.
- This position is one that would normally require the person to work in a temperature-controlled office environment with other professional and management employees and continent workers, with frequent exposure to electronic office equipment.





This position will likely require the employee to travel a few times annually to physically meet with managers or team members.

You are confident facilitating Scrum ceremonies and product discussions with Engineering Managers, technical leads, senior developers, business stakeholders, and users.
You can convert product direction and workshop discussions into clear backlog items, decisions, requirements, actions, and communication materials.
You are highly organized and comfortable managing multiple timelines, dependencies, risks, decisions, and stakeholder commitments.
You communicate clearly in writing and verbally and can prepare concise, leadership-ready presentations and pre-read materials.
You understand the difference between tracking engineering progress and managing technical quality or individual developer performance.
You are motivated by scalable outcomes and help teams reuse, document, communicate, adopt, and expand capabilities already built.
Our Commitment to Embrace Diversity:

Wabtec is a global company that invests not just in our products, but also our people by embracing diversity and inclusion. We care about our relationships with our employees and take pride in celebrating the variety of experiences, expertise, and backgrounds that bring us together. At Wabtec, we aspire to create a place where we all belong and where diversity is welcomed and appreciated.

To fulfill that commitment, we rely on a culture of leadership, diversity, and inclusion. We aim to employ the world’s brightest minds to help us create a limitless source of ideas and opportunities. We have created a space where everyone is given the chance to contribute based on their individual experiences and perspectives and recognize that these differences and diverse perspectives make us better.

We believe in hiring talented people of varied backgrounds, experiences, and styles… Wabtec Corporation is committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or protected Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.
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. Our global team of about 30,000 employees worldwide delivers performance that moves the world forward. We believe the best ideas come from a mix of experiences and backgrounds. We’re building a culture where leadership, inclusion and your unique perspective fuel progress.

We welcome talent of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including race, gender, age, disability, veteran status and more.
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