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You will manage the product backlog and roadmap for assigned platform capabilities while working in an AI-first product delivery model, leveraging AI tools to accelerate discovery, requirements development, communication, validation, and delivery support.\nResponsibilities:\nOwn the product backlog and near-term roadmap for assigned Knowledge & Semantic Platform capabilities, including ontology, knowledge graph, taxonomy, metadata management, semantic modeling, and related platform services.\nConduct discovery with internal clients to understand business concepts, workflow needs, data relationships, AI use cases, and opportunities to improve semantic consistency and intelligence delivery.\nDefine product requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, semantic models, entity relationships, metadata standards, prompt and context artifacts, and validation approaches that enable scalable AI-driven solutions.\nPartner with engineering leads, architects, AI Delivery, data engineering, security, and design teams to translate business concepts into reusable semantic platform capabilities.\nBalance delivery priorities across internal client needs, engineering capacity, architecture direction, governance requirements, data stewardship practices, and emerging AI-assisted development opportunities.\nCollaborate with teams using agentic coding tools, AI-assisted development environments, and AI-supported testing, documentation, and validation workflows to improve delivery quality and speed.\nSupport implementation planning, release readiness, documentation, validation, and adoption activities while promoting consistent semantic standards and reusable platform capabilities.\nUse metrics, operational insights, client feedback, and AI-supported synthesis to refine backlog priorities and continuously improve ontology, metadata quality, semantic relationships, and platform adoption.\nCreate guidance, demonstrations, communications, and enablement resources that help internal teams effectively leverage semantic platform capabilities, knowledge graph assets, and AI-first development practices.\nIdentify opportunities to improve metadata quality, semantic consistency, data stewardship, self-service, and reusable knowledge assets that enhance AI-enabled products and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) capabilities.\nQualifications:\nRelevant degree preferred.\n2 or more years of relevant experience required.\nTypically possesses 3-5 years of relevant experience in product management, product ownership, enterprise platforms, knowledge management, semantic technologies, AI-enabled products, or platform enablement.\nExperience working with ontology, knowledge graphs, taxonomy, semantic modeling, metadata management, graph databases, or related knowledge management technologies preferred.\nExperience partnering with engineering and data teams to translate business concepts into scalable semantic models, entity relationships, and reusable platform capabilities.\nFamiliarity with AI-enabled applications, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), large language models, or other AI technologies that leverage structured knowledge and semantic data preferred.\nDemonstrated experience using AI tools such as Codex/ChatGPT, Claude Code/Co-Work, GitHub Copilot/Copilot Studio, and emerging agentic coding environments to improve product discovery, requirements development, documentation, analysis, and communication.\nUnderstanding of data stewardship, metadata governance, healthcare data concepts, and semantic consistency principles preferred.\nStrong analytical, communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to drive adoption, reuse, quality, and measurable business value across platform capabilities.\nEstimated Hiring Range:\nAt Vizient, we consider skills, experience, and organizational needs in our compensation approach. 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