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Mondelēz International · 5 hours ago

Director, Product and Portfolio Management - Emerging Tech

United States

Full-time

Remote

Director/Executive

$143K/yr - $235K/yr

10+ years exp

Mondelēz International is leading the future of snacking and is seeking a Director for Product and Portfolio Management in Emerging Tech. This role is responsible for shaping and governing the enterprise AI portfolio, ensuring that initiatives align with user needs and deliver measurable business value.

Consumer GoodsFood and BeverageFood ProcessingManufacturing

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Own the enterprise intake process for AI initiatives

Partner with business leaders to reframe solution requests into clear problem statements

Ensure each request includes defined users, business objectives, success metrics, and constraints

Filter, shape, and sequence demand to focus resources on the highest-value opportunities

Apply design thinking and human-centered design methods (empathy interviews, journey mapping, problem reframing, ideation workshops) to uncover high-impact AI opportunities

Facilitate structured discovery sessions to validate desirability, feasibility, and viability before initiatives move forward

Ensure user needs, behaviors, and adoption barriers are explicitly addressed in AI solution design

Translate insights into clear hypotheses that guide experimentation and pilots

Build and validate value hypotheses for AI initiatives, including productivity gains, cost reduction, revenue enablement, and risk mitigation

Define measurable KPIs tied to both user adoption and business outcomes

Support investment decisions through value-versus-feasibility analysis and prioritization frameworks

Partner with Finance and business teams to track value realization over time

Translate approved opportunities into a cohesive AI product roadmap

Ensure alignment with enterprise AI strategy, responsible AI principles, and a multi-cloud data environment

Balance near-term pilots with longer-term platform and capability investments

Maintain transparency into pipeline, priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs

Serve as the primary relationship owner for business stakeholders consuming AI capabilities

Manage expectations across discovery, pilot, and activation phases

Drive alignment on outcomes, adoption readiness, and change management needs

Act as a trusted advisor, challenging assumptions while maintaining strong partnerships

Develop and manage strategic relationships with external venture partners to identify emerging technologies, potential investment opportunities, and innovative solutions that can accelerate AI product impact

Partner with ActivateAI Factory to ensure AI solutions are designed to scale, not just to demonstrate technical feasibility

Validate data readiness, architecture alignment, and security, privacy, and compliance considerations early in the design process

Ensure pilots are designed to test technical feasibility, user desirability, operational fit, and adoption readiness

Define training, enablement, and AI literacy needs as part of solution design, including: Target user personas and skill levels, Required changes to ways of working, Guidance on responsible and effective AI usage

Coordinate with change, learning, and communications partners (where applicable) to ensure appropriate enablement is in place prior to activation

Support transition from pilot to activation with clear success criteria, including adoption, proficiency, and value realization metrics

Provide leadership with clear visibility into the AI portfolio, including value, progress, risks, and decisions required

Support stop/go/scale decisions with data-driven insights

Ensure AI initiatives adhere to enterprise governance and responsible AI standards

Partner with venture capital firms, startups, and external innovation ecosystems to source emerging AI technologies and scalable solutions

Evaluate potential collaborations or investments to inform enterprise AI strategy and product roadmaps

Leverage external insights to accelerate adoption, drive innovation, and increase measurable business impact

Coordinate with internal product, architecture, and finance teams to ensure opportunities are aligned with enterprise AI priorities and governance

Qualification

AI product managementDesign thinkingBusiness case developmentStakeholder communicationValue assessmentFinancial mindsetInfluencing skillsCuriosityEmpathyDecisivenessFacilitation skills

Required

10+ years in product management, digital strategy, innovation, or transformation roles

Experience operating at enterprise scale across multiple business units

Proven ability to build and defend business cases for digital, data, or AI initiatives

Experience working with AI, advanced analytics, or emerging technologies

Strong product and systems thinking

Deep experience applying design thinking or human-centered design

Executive-level stakeholder communication and facilitation

Financial and value-oriented mindset

Ability to influence without direct authority

Comfort operating in ambiguity and early-stage problem spaces

Curious, empathetic, and outcome-driven

Pragmatic and decisive

Strong facilitator who brings diverse perspectives together

Bias for learning, iteration, and value delivery

Benefits

Health insurance

Wellness and family support programs

Life and disability insurance

Retirement savings plans

Paid leave programs

Education related programs

Paid holidays and vacation time

Company

Mondelēz International

Glassdoor4.0

Mondelēz International, Inc.

Founded in 1903

Chicago, Illinois, USA

10001+ employees

https://www.mondelezinternational.com/

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