Senior Director, Innovation Product Manager

Role Overview

The Senior Director, Innovation Product Manager is responsible for identifying, incubating, and scaling breakthrough digital product opportunities that accelerate The Coca‑Cola Company’s digital transformation journey. Operating at the intersection of business strategy, emerging technology, data, and artificial intelligence, this leader will drive the discovery and development of innovative products that create new enterprise capabilities, unlock productivity, enable growth, and transform how work gets done across the Coca‑Cola system.

This role leads a team of Product Owners and Business Analysis leaders responsible for product discovery, experimentation, opportunity assessment, and early-stage product development. The Innovation Product Manager serves as the catalyst between business challenges and future digital solutions, ensuring that innovation investments are grounded in business value, aligned to enterprise priorities, and capable of scaling across Functions, Operating Units, and bottling partners.

Success in this role requires deep product management expertise, strong commercial acumen, digital and AI fluency, and the ability to navigate ambiguity while transforming emerging opportunities into scalable digital capabilities. This leader will help shape Coca‑Cola’s future digital landscape by creating a disciplined innovation engine that continuously identifies and accelerates high-value opportunities. This role builds upon product ownership, innovation discovery, and business analysis disciplines across the Digital Product & Engineering organization.

What You will do for us

• Define and lead the enterprise innovation product strategy, identifying future digital capabilities that support growth, productivity, and operational excellence.

• Build and manage a portfolio of innovation initiatives focused on emerging technologies, advanced analytics, automation, artificial intelligence, and intelligent enterprise solutions.

• Lead innovation discovery processes to identify unmet business needs, emerging market opportunities, and transformational use cases across the Coca‑Cola system.

• Partner with senior business leaders, Digital Product & Engineering teams, Operating Units, and bottling partners to evaluate and prioritize innovation opportunities.

• Direct the development of business cases, value assessments, investment recommendations, and innovation roadmaps that support enterprise decision-making.

• Lead experimentation efforts, proof-of-concepts, pilots, and minimum viable products to rapidly validate hypotheses and business value.

• Guide Product Owners and Business Analysis leaders in translating business challenges into scalable product concepts, requirements, and solution strategies.

• Establish innovation governance frameworks that balance experimentation, speed, investment discipline, and value realization.

• Drive the integration of artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and data-driven capabilities into future digital products and business processes.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering, Architecture, Data & AI, Cybersecurity, and Platform teams to ensure innovation initiatives align with enterprise standards and scalability requirements.

• Create repeatable innovation frameworks that accelerate the transition from idea to scalable enterprise product.

• Define and monitor innovation performance metrics, value realization measures, adoption indicators, and portfolio outcomes.

• Identify and mitigate risks associated with emerging technologies, enterprise adoption, product scalability, and business readiness.

• Foster a culture of innovation, experimentation, curiosity, and continuous learning across product and business teams.

• Influence enterprise digital strategy by providing insights on emerging technologies, innovation trends, future capabilities, and business transformation opportunities.

Requirements and Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field; Master’s degree preferred.

• 12+ years of experience in product management, innovation management, digital transformation, technology strategy, consulting, or related disciplines.

• 8+ years of experience leading digital product teams, innovation organizations, or enterprise technology initiatives within large global organizations.

• Proven experience identifying, evaluating, and scaling innovative digital products, platforms, or business capabilities that delivered measurable business value.

• Demonstrated success leading product discovery, experimentation, opportunity assessment, business case development, and value realization activities.

• Strong understanding of modern product management disciplines, product operating models, agile methodologies, and digital product development practices.

• Experience leveraging advanced analytics, automation, machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, and emerging technologies to solve business challenges.

• Strong business acumen with the ability to connect enterprise priorities, customer needs, operational challenges, and technology investments.

• Experience leading teams responsible for product ownership, innovation delivery, business analysis, or strategic capability development.

• Demonstrated ability to develop investment strategies, innovation portfolios, and funding recommendations for enterprise initiatives.

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving capabilities with a track record of operating effectively in ambiguous environments.

• Experience influencing executive stakeholders and building alignment across highly matrixed organizations.

• Knowledge of enterprise technology ecosystems, cloud platforms, data architectures, digital platforms, and AI governance principles.

• Strong communication, storytelling, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement capabilities.

• Digital and AI fluency with the ability to evaluate opportunities, risks, adoption implications, and enterprise value drivers associated with new technologies.

• Passion for innovation, experimentation, continuous learning, and building inclusive, high-performing teams.