Product Owner
Overview
The Data & AI Product Owner is the bridge between the business and the Data & AI delivery teams. The role exists to make sure the data and AI assets we build solve real business problems, get adopted, and deliver measurable value. This is a business facing role first and a technical one second. The successful candidate will spend a significant portion of their time embedded with business partners, understanding their operating context, challenging their assumptions, shaping demand into a coherent product strategy, and holding the organisation accountable for the benefits it signed up for. They own the product end to end from problem definition through delivery to ongoing operation and value tracking.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree or higher, preferably in commerce, information technology, mathematics, science, data science or engineering.
- 5+ years in Product Management, Product Ownership, or a Business/Systems Analyst role operating at the intersection of technology and business.
- Demonstrable track record of owning senior stakeholder relationships and influencing business decisions without direct authority.
- Evidence of having driven adoption and measurable business value, not only delivery of scope on time.
- Sound commercial reasoning: comfortable building a business case, sizing a benefit, and defending it.
- Strong analytical skills and a working understanding of information systems, data platforms and data flows.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, including the ability to present to and hold your own with senior executives.
Responsibilities
- Build trusted advisor relationships with senior business stakeholders.
- Develop deep working knowledge of the business areas served.
- Translate ambiguous business problems into clearly framed product opportunities.
- Shape and manage demand across competing stakeholders.
- Build the case for investment: business cases, benefit hypotheses, and the commercial logic behind why a product is worth building.
- Own and articulate a compelling product vision and multi-horizon roadmap.
- Own the product backlog: define outcomes, write and prioritise requirements, and make scope decisions.
How to apply
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