Sr. Manager, AI Lead - Semantic Layer - Remote

Business & User Understanding

• Define and manage data products aligned to key business domains, including clear ownership, users, and success metrics.
• Define target users and use cases for data products, ensuring alignment to specific decisions, workflows, and business outcomes.
• Partner closely with business customers to ensure data products support critical decisions, workflows, and operational outcomes.
• Drive adoption and usage of shared data assets across business units.
• Identify and prioritize use cases where connected data unlocks measurable business value (e.g., improved decisioning, automation, personalization).
• Ensure solutions are aligned to real-world workflows and deliver tangible outcomes.

Semantic & Data Modeling

• Lead the development and evolution of enterprise ontologies, taxonomies, and data models that represent key business concepts and relationships.
• Establish a scalable semantic layer that enables reuse across analytics, AI, and operational use cases.
• Ensure alignment of definitions across domains to reduce fragmentation and duplication.
• Support both structured and unstructured data integration, enabling downstream AI and analytics applications.
• Ensure data is discoverable, understandable, and usable across teams through consistent definitions and relationships.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner deeply with business domains to understand workflows, decision points, and data dependencies, acting as a product owner for how data supports those functions.
• Partner with data engineering, enterprise architecture, and AI/ML teams to translate business concepts into scalable technical implementations.
• Partner with Architecture and Data teams to ensure data exposed through APIs and integration layers is consistently structured, well-governed, and aligned to shared business definitions and use cases.
• Act as the connective layer between business partners and technical teams.

Product Delivery & Lifecycle Management

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery and definition to delivery and iteration.
• Define product requirements, success metrics, and release plans.
• Continuously refine the semantic data product based on user feedback and evolving business needs.
• Define critical metrics to measure adoption, usability, and impact of the semantic data product.
• Supervise usage and continuously improve accessibility and value delivery.
• Evangelize the value of connected semantic data across the organization.

Data Governance & Standards

• Partner with data governance teams to establish standards, definitions, and data quality expectations.
• Promote consistency, reusability, and scalability of data assets across the enterprise.
• Ensure compliance with regulatory and data privacy requirements.

Required Experience, Education and Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Data Science, or a related field; advanced degree preferred
• 10 + years of experience in product management, including experience delivering data or data platform products.
• Demonstrable ability to lead others directly or indirectly, as demonstrated through 3+ years of leading teams, enterprise-wide programs, or large multi-functional programs.
• Consistent track record of owning products end-to-end, including strategy, roadmap, delivery, and performance measurement, ideally in insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry
• Direct experience developing or working with ontologies, semantic data models, or knowledge graphs, or defining and standardizing business entities and relationships across domains in an enterprise environment
• Hands-on experience with enterprise data systems, data platforms, or data integration initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to translate business concepts into structured data models and deliver data-driven products or platforms in partnership with technical teams
• Strong understanding of data ecosystems, including how data is defined, governed, and connected across domains
• Experience enabling AI/ML or analytics use cases through well-structured and connected data
• Experience leading or mentoring product managers or cross-functional teams preferred

What would make us excited about you?

• Creates a collaborative, inclusive and psychologically safe environment, demonstrating authenticity and fostering trust to inspire and empower team members and colleagues
• Actively shapes our company culture through words and actions (e.g., supporting employee resource groups, mentoring employees, volunteering, joining cross-functional projects, encouraging team member involvement in these activities)
• Champions our cultural norms (e.g., willing to have cameras when it matters: interviewing candidates, building relationships with team members, etc.)
• Translates our enterprise strategy and priorities for their team members to connect to the bigger picture
• Demonstrates a company ownership mindset, thinking beyond boundaries of their own area
• Travels as needed for role, including enterprise meetings, divisional / team meetings, and other in-person meetings
• Fulfills business needs, which may include investing extra time, helping other teams, etc

Please note we are hiring for this role remote anywhere in the United States with the following exceptions: Hawaii and Alaska.

Why Choose a Career at CSAA IG?

At CSAA IG, we are a mission-driven organization proudly committed to empowering our members, our employees, and our communities to thrive.

Recognition: We offer a total compensation package, annual bonus eligibility for most roles, 401(k) with a company match, and so much more! Read more about what we offer and what it is like to be a part of our dynamic team at https://careers.csaainsurance.aaa.com/us/en/benefits.

Career Growth: We believe in growth for everyone. Here at CSAA IG, leaders and mentors partner with employees to align interests, unlock development opportunities, and support long‑term success.

Flexible Workplace: We embrace a remote-first culture through our Flexible Workplace. Most employees hold Home-Flex roles, working primarily from home, often with the flexibility to work from various locations including CSAA offices. Our flexible workplace empowers you to balance remote work with intentional in‑person moments that deepen connection and collaboration.

Inclusion and Belonging: An inclusive and welcoming workplace is the cornerstone of our success. By fostering an environment where people feel valued and heard, we deepen our ability to understand and meet the unique needs of our members. This strengthens innovation and enhances our products and services, giving us a competitive edge in the market.

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