Director, AI Commerce Product Partnerships (USA Based Remote)

Strategy & Vision 

• Shape NIQ’s product roadmap from partner intelligence, connecting what platform and technology partners require to NIQ’s product investments. 

• Translate partner needs into NIQ product implications and pressure-test strategic assumptions before they advance to executive decision-makers. 

• Proactively identify solutions, or lead others to solve the most complex, large-scale problems, using methods that think beyond existing solutions, with work guided by business strategy and long-range goals and objectives. 

• Develop and maintain the AI Commerce Partnership narrative framework across internal and external audiences, and provide functional thought leadership, strategy, and advice on business issues that span organization functions. 

Product & Commercial Ownership 

• Obtain and own the product requirements for NIQ’s partner-facing strategy, ensuring they match the business case and the commercial structure on the partnership side. 

• Own day-to-day product requirements, translating partner technical and integration needs, including Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Application Programming Interface (API) integration requirements, into clear specifications for NIQ product teams. 

• Partner with commercial leadership to define partnership scope for NIQ customers and priority partnership deliverables. 

• Lead highly visible multidisciplinary project teams or initiatives that translate partner-facing product requirements into clear direction for NIQ product teams. 

• Own and understand the AI Commerce Product Partnerships financial statements, always understanding the impact of a change against the metrics and being able to report on the numbers with explanatory information aligned with respective stakeholders.   

Stakeholder and Executive Leadership 

• Represent partner interests in NIQ product decisions and influence internal and external business and technology issues that have an impact on the business. 

• Negotiate with executive leadership, senior management, customers, and/or vendors to influence strategic decisions on partnership scope and product direction. 

• Represent the partner-facing product strategy in executive and investor communications, including updates to the Chief Product Officer (CPO) and inputs to Investor Relations (IR). 

• Extensive experience in product management or product strategy, including time at a major technology or platform company and experience in AI or agentic commerce environments. 

• Strong fluency in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) and Retail data ecosystems. 

• A track record of translating partner or customer needs into product requirements that shape what a business builds and brings to market. 

• Demonstrated success influencing strategic decisions with executive leadership and external partners.