Director, Product Owner

Job Classification: Technology - Project Mgmt/Business Analysis We're seeking a Lead Product Owner to define and deliver our enterprise Conversational & Agentic AI strategy across voice, chat, and digital self-service. You'll drive the roadmap forward for IVR modernization, intelligent chatbots capabilities, integrating with CCaaS platforms and core enterprise systems to create measurable business impact-higher containment, lower cost per contact, better CSAT, faster resolution, and a truly effortless experience for customers and employees. This is a highly visible role at the forefront of how our technology serves clients. You'll partner across business, operations, design, and engineering, bringing a bias for action and a track record of shipping AI-powered customer-service products at scale. This position is a hybrid role based out of Fort Washington, PA or Newark, NJ. While a virtual working arrangement may be considered for the right candidate, there will be an expectation of travel as necessary.

What You'll Do

Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and evolve a data-driven Conversational & Agentic AI strategy aligned to enterprise goals (automation, CX, cost, quality, risk).
• Lead buy/build/partner decisions; develop business cases, TCO/ROI models, and measurable value hypotheses.
• Own and continuously refine the product roadmap, features, and OKRs across journeys (voice, chat, messaging, web/mobile self-service).

Execution & Delivery

• Own the product backlog (epics, features, user stories, acceptance criteria), prioritize ruthlessly, and run iterative, outcome-focused releases.
• Drive cross-functional delivery with engineering, data science, design, and operations; coordinate dependencies with marketing, compliance, risk, and legal.
• Lead demos, stakeholder communications, and change management to drive adoption (agents, supervisors, operations leaders).

Technology & Integration

• Build and scale solutions on modern CCaaS and CRM AI stacks
• Shape next-gen conversational and agentic capabilities
• Integrate with CRM (Salesforce/Dynamics), ITSM (ServiceNow), knowledge systems, telephony, and other systems
• Partner on Responsible AI: privacy/PII and PCI considerations, guardrails, human-in-the-loop, monitoring, auditability, and model risk management.

Outcomes & Insights

• Define and monitor KPIs such as containment/deflection rate, FCR, AHT, transfer and escalation rates, CSAT/NPS, self-service adoption, cost per contact, and agent assist impact.
• Run experiments (A/B), measure impact, and iterate to continuously improve outcomes

What You'll Bring Experience

• 10+ years in product management/ownership (or equivalent), including 4+ years delivering conversational AI/contact center solutions at scale.
• Proven success shipping voice/chatbots, IVR modernization, and agent-assist capabilities integrated with CCaaS and enterprise systems.

Core Expertise

• Conversational AI & Agentic AI (tool-use orchestration, grounding/RAG, prompt strategy, evaluation & observability).
• Contact center domain: routing, IVR, speech analytics, WFM/QM, workforce optimization.
• Data fluency: funnel analytics, KPI instrumentation, experimentation, and making data-driven decisions.
• Technical literacy sufficient to partner with engineering: APIs/integration patterns, event streaming (e.g., Kafka), cloud (Azure/AWS), security/compliance.

Leadership & Collaboration

• Strategic, outcome-oriented leader with a bias for action and comfort with ambiguity.
• Excellent communicator able to influence at all levels and align stakeholders around vision and value.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams through complex, multi-journey initiatives.

Preferred

• Experience with AI-powered CCaaS (Genesys Cloud, Amazon Connect, NICE CXone; Five9/Twilio Flex a plus).
• Knowledge of life insurance & annuity servicing and digital self-service
• Familiarity with LLMs (Azure OpenAI/OpenAI/Anthropic/Vertex), vector search, knowledge management, MLOps/LLMOps, conversation evaluation, and safety/guardrails.
• Tools: Jira/Confluence (or ADO), BI/analytics tools; basic SQL is a plus.

Education

• Bachelor's degree required; Master's preferred (or equivalent experience).

#LI-MG1 What we offer you: Prudential is required by state specific laws to include the salary range for this role when hiring a resident in applicable locations. The salary range for this role is from $164,700.00 to $222,700.00. Specific pricing for the role may vary within the above range based on many factors including geographic location, candidate experience, and skills.

• Market competitive base salaries, with a yearly bonus potential at every level.
• Medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, Paid Time Off (PTO), and leave of absences, such as parental and military leave.
• 401(k) plan with company match (up to 4%).
• Company-funded pension plan.
• Wellness Programs including up to $1,600 a year for reimbursement of items purchased to support personal wellbeing needs.
• Work/Life Resources to help support topics such as parenting, housing, senior care, finances, pets, legal matters, education, emotional and mental health, and career development.
• Education Benefit to help finance traditional college enrollment toward obtaining an approved degree and many accredited certificate programs.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan: Shares can be purchased at 85% of the lower of two prices (Beginning or End of the purchase period), after one year of service.

Eligibility to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program is subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance. To find out more about our Total Rewards package, visit Work Life Balance | Prudential Careers. Some of the above benefits may not apply to part-time employees scheduled to work less than 20 hours per week. Prudential Financial, Inc. of the United States is not affiliated with Prudential plc. which is headquartered in the United Kingdom. Prudential is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, age, veteran status, domestic partner status, medical condition or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need an accommodation to complete the application process, please email [email protected]. If you are experiencing a technical issue with your application or an assessment, please email [email protected] to request assistance. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job