Role: AI Data Product Lead

Duration: 6+ Months 

Location: Remote/ Houston, TX

Primary Skills : AI, Azure

Job Description: AI Data Product Lead 

• Role Overview: 
• Lead the development of a commercial data product leveraging payment, settlement, and dispute data, with a focus on predictive, prescriptive, and AI-driven analytics for merchants and independent software vendors.  
• Key Responsibilities: 
• Evaluate and understand the current Architecture and data to create scalable, modern analytics products.  
• Collaborate with managed service providers and AI vendors (e.g., Wisdom AI, Copilot) to guide technical direction and ensure business alignment.  
• Design and implement use cases for aggregated issuer data, benchmarking, and actionable insights for merchants (e.g., customer demographics, repeat business, competitor analysis, event-driven predictions).  
• Build and prototype small, market-ready use cases, iterating based on feedback and evolving industry standards.  
• Ensure data quality, governance, and security in all solutions, working within Azure environments (Cosmos, Synapse, Power BI, and potentially Microsoft Fabric).  
• Provide help in developing generative and agentic models for business users to interact with data and receive automated insights and alerts.  
• help bridge gaps between business vision and technical execution.  
• Required Skills: 
• Proven experience in data architecture, analytics, and AI/ML product development. 
• Strong understanding of payment data, merchant analytics, and data privacy (PII, aggregation). 
• Hands-on expertise with Azure data stack (Cosmos, Synapse, Power BI, Fabric). 
• Ability to work in a startup environment with limited resources and high ambiguity. 
• Leadership, vision, and the ability to translate business needs into technical solutions. 
• Experience collaborating with external vendors and managed service providers. 
• Preferred: 
• Experience with restaurant or retail analytics. 
• Familiarity with benchmarking, predictive modeling, and agentic AI solutions. 
• Ability to design and implement data-driven products for commercial resale