Product Owner, Pricing Analytics and Palantir Foundry
Job Description
The Product Owner will lead enterprise product vision, roadmap, and delivery for pricing analytics and Palantir Foundry-enabled capabilities at International Motors, LLC in Lisle, Illinois (onsite). The role serves as a primary decision-maker, partnering across pricing, commercial, data, engineering, and executive stakeholders to translate strategy into delivered solutions.
Product Ownership and Roadmap
- Own and articulate the product vision, strategy, and multi-release roadmap for pricing analytics and Palantir Foundry-enabled capabilities.
- Define, prioritize, and maintain the product backlog, ensuring epics, features, and user stories are clearly written, appropriately sized, and aligned to business value.
- Translate pricing strategy, margin objectives, and commercial priorities into actionable product requirements and acceptance criteria.
- Own service and aftermarket parts pricing direction, including price list management, approval workflows, segmentation, and price harmonization across markets, channels, and dealer networks.
Stakeholder Leadership and Customer Voice
- Act as the voice of the customer by engaging pricing leaders, commercial teams, dealers, and end users to validate needs and confirm delivered solutions meet expectations.
- Manage stakeholder alignment, competing priorities, risks, and trade-off decisions across multiple business units and delivery teams.
- Communicate roadmap progress, delivery status, risks, and business impact to senior leadership through clear, executive-ready updates.
Agile Delivery and Release Rollout
- Lead agile ceremonies including backlog refinement, sprint planning, reviews, and demonstrations, and accept completed work on behalf of the business.
- Drive large-scale implementation and rollout planning, including release sequencing, change management, training, adoption strategy, and post-launch value realization.
Product Metrics and Continuous Improvement
- Establish and monitor product success metrics such as adoption, pricing accuracy, margin impact, cycle time, and user satisfaction.
- Adjust priorities based on measured outcomes.
Foundry and Enterprise Integration
- Partner with data and engineering teams on Foundry ontology design, data pipelines, application workflows, and integration dependencies to support scalable, sustainable solutions.
- Direct integration of dedicated parts pricing platforms with Palantir Foundry, ERP, CPQ, and eCommerce systems to ensure consistent, governed pricing across the enterprise.
Technical and Platform Knowledge
Experience is expected across enterprise pricing and decision tools, including knowledge of Palantir Foundry capabilities such as ontology-driven applications, data pipelines, dashboards, and platform-enabled workflows.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 9 years of technical project/program management experience.
- Master’s degree and at least 5 years of technical project/program management experience.
- At least 2 years of lead experience.
- Qualified candidates, excluding current employees, must be legally authorized on an unrestricted basis (US Citizen, Legal Permanent Resident, Refugee Asylee) to be employed in the United States.
- No employment related work sponsorship is anticipated for this position (e.g., H-1B status).
Preferred Experience and Skills
- 10+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, pricing analytics, enterprise analytics, and related digital product leadership roles.
- Senior-level experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or equivalent role accountable for enterprise product strategy, backlog ownership, roadmap execution, and delivery of complex data analytics products.
- Hands-on experience with Palantir Foundry, including ontology-driven applications, data pipelines, dashboards, and platform-enabled business workflows.
- Demonstrated experience in pricing analytics, commercial analytics, revenue management, margin analysis, segmentation, and data-driven pricing decision support.
- Hands-on experience with enterprise parts pricing and price optimization platforms such as Syncron Price, PROS, Zilliant, Vendavo, Pricefx, or comparable solutions.
- Working knowledge of service parts pricing methods including cost-plus, value-based, and competitor-based models, along with kit, lifecycle, supersession, and interchange pricing considerations.
- Track record leading large-scale, cross-functional implementations from concept through production rollout, including executive alignment, adoption, governance, and measurable business outcomes.
- Strong command of agile delivery practices including backlog management, story writing, prioritization frameworks, and release planning.
- Ability to translate complex business and technical concepts into clear requirements, decisions, and executive-level communication.
- Exceptional stakeholder management, negotiation, and influencing skills to align senior business, technology, data, and executive audiences around priorities, trade-offs, and outcomes.
- Ability to operate decisively in a fast-paced environment with ambiguity while maintaining ownership, structure, and attention to detail.
- Experience owning enterprise pricing platforms and commercial decision tools, including dealer customer analytics and integrated business platforms.
- Experience leading selection, implementation, replacement of a parts pricing platform, including vendor evaluation, data migration, rule configuration, and transition from manual spreadsheet-based pricing processes.
- Familiarity with dealer network pricing dynamics including dealer margin protection, grey market and cannibalization risk, tariff and cost volatility, and competitive aftermarket positioning.
- Familiarity with Palantir Marketplace, OSDK, AIP, and LLM-enabled workflows and advanced Foundry application capabilities.
- Background in automotive, manufacturing, distribution, and aftermarket parts environments.
- Experience building business cases, value models, and investment justification for large-scale platform initiatives.
- Relevant certifications such as CSPO, SAFe POPM, or equivalent agile product credentials.
Compensation and Location
- Location: Lisle, Illinois (onsite)
- Compensation: USD 153,600 - 230,400 per yearly
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package designed to support employee wellbeing.
- Competitive market-based compensation.
- Learn more about the benefits offered: https://careers.international.com/#benefits
Company Overview
International Motors, LLC is d/b/a International Mots USA in Illinois, Missouri, New Jersey, Ohio, Texas, and Utah. International is based in Lisle, Illinois, and creates solutions delivering uptime and productivity, building trucks, engines, buses, and Fleetrite aftermarket parts. TRATON SE is the parent and holding company of TRATON GROUP, a commercial vehicle manufacturer.