Tribe Product Owner Data & AI (Chief of Staff, Data Leadership)
Tribe Product Owner Data & AI (Chief of Staff, Data Leadership)
- Orchestrate strategic alignment across 150+ data professionals and business stakeholders by bridging technical data teams with business units and mediating priorities, resources, and timelines.
- Co-develop data & AI strategy together with the VP Data & AI, crafting compelling narratives that secure organizational buy-in and drive budget approval for data initiatives.
- Drive operational cadence by managing long-term planning processes, overseeing workforce and budget allocations, facilitating regular QBRs, and coordinating leadership off-sites to keep initiatives on track.
- Accelerate impact delivery by ensuring the right expertise is brought together promptly, enabling AI innovation to move efficiently from concept to realized business value.
Scope & Objectives:
- Strategic Planning: Transform complex business needs into actionable data & AI roadmaps that support company goals.
- Stakeholder Management: Engage diverse stakeholders, mediate interests effectively, and maintain alignment on key projects and objectives.
- Financial Analysis: Guide the allocation and tracking of resources to maximize ROI on data & AI initiatives.
- Project Management: Oversee projects from initiation to execution, ensuring delivery within scope and timelines.
- Board & Meeting Management: Prepare content and manage cadence for senior leadership meetings and workshops.
- Leadership & People Management: Coordinate collaborative work across cross-functional teams and help set the tempo for team effectiveness.
Languages used daily: English (fluent); Dutch and French (business level are a plus).
We are looking for candidates who naturally step into the role of orchestrator—individuals who thrive at the intersection of data, business, and strategic leadership. This is someone who brings a rare blend of analytical acuity, storytelling finesse, and people-savvy leadership, ensuring humanity and strategy work hand in hand in the pursuit of data-driven excellence.
- Structured Thinker & Synchronizer: Possesses exceptional structured problem-solving skills, with a proven ability to align diverse teams and priorities, ideally honed in a management consulting setting.
- Strategic Visionary: Demonstrates a strong affinity and curiosity for data & AI, combined with the ability to distill complexity into simple, actionable roadmaps for both technical experts and business leaders.
- Influential Communicator: Has the presence and narrative flair to inspire confidence and drive alignment at every organizational level—from engineers to executives—translating insights into compelling stories that motivate action and unlock stakeholder buy-in.
- Relationship Builder: Adept at engaging business and technical stakeholders, mediating competing needs, and rapidly convening the right voices to transform vision into real-world impact.
- Operational Maestro: Highly organized and decisive, experienced in long-term planning, budgeting, governance, and steering routines that keep the strategic tempo in harmony.
- Leadership & Adaptability: Shows proven success in people management, navigating dynamic environments with resilience, creativity, and steady leadership—even under pressure.
We value candidates who are energized by fast-paced collaboration, confident in board meeting settings, and comfortable steering both the big picture and the critical details. A capability for financial analysis and workforce planning is essential, as is confidence in English. Competency in Dutch or French is a welcome advantage. Above all, we seek a conductor ready to elevate Data & AI initiatives with passion, precision, and unity of purpose.
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