Principal Product Lead - AI Value Creation
Summary
Selby Jennings is partnered with a leading investment firm looking for a senior AI and technology leader to partner with businesses across its portfolio and uncover opportunities to drive meaningful operational and financial improvement. This individual will work closely with executive leadership to evaluate how AI, automation, data, and broader technology capabilities can be applied to complex business challenges.
The role combines technology strategy, value creation, financial analysis, and executive advisory, with a strong emphasis on identifying opportunities that can move from concept into real-world implementation.
Responsibilities
- Partner with portfolio company leadership to assess existing operations and uncover areas where technology can improve efficiency, profitability, productivity, or growth.
- Develop a strong understanding of business processes, technology environments, data flows, and operational challenges to determine where transformation efforts can have the greatest impact.
- Build and evaluate potential technology initiatives by considering expected business value, implementation complexity, organizational readiness, required investment, and speed to impact.
- Create financially grounded recommendations and ROI analyses that allow senior executives to make informed decisions around technology and AI investments.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on emerging AI capabilities and collaborate with technical delivery teams to help ensure approved initiatives remain tied to their intended business outcomes.
Qualifications
- 15+ years of professional experience spanning areas such as management consulting, private equity value creation, digital transformation, technology strategy, or senior operating leadership.
- Proven ability to partner directly with executive stakeholders and advise on complex business, operational, and technology decisions.
- Strong commercial and financial skill set, including experience evaluating opportunities, quantifying potential impact, and developing investment or ROI cases.
- Broad knowledge of AI, automation, data, and enterprise technology, coupled with the ability to connect new capabilities to practical business applications.
- Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar businesses and communicate effectively across executive, operational, and technical audiences; experience within healthcare or similarly complex industries is highly desirable.
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