Job Description

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).