Product Owner - Generative AI

Product Owner Generative AI

Duration: 6 month contract with the opportunity to extend or convert to perm

Responsibilities

• Leading and collaborating with Digital Product Managers and peer group colleagues as well as other IT stakeholder groups towards finalizing short mid and long terms initiative and product roadmaps aligned to business priorities and value together with assessment of available capacity and indicative level of effort arising from the team landscape resulting in effectively sequenced and prioritized roadmaps
• Collaborate with architecture engineering and service management teams to ensure the overall roadmaps are balanced to ensure a scalable user experience optimised stable and performant technology products that continually meet business needs ensuring NFRs (Non Functional Requirements) and System enablers are considered and captured and cascaded to the relevant teams
• Define methodology for the analysis and response to target metrics and value postdelivery including recommended improvements for use during retrospective work sessions and with an overall goal of driving increased use and adoption
• Nurture and build relationships with senior colleagues across all business functions that are impacted by the assigned product and initiative portfolio and underlying business capabilities and technology solutions use these relationships to collaborate on business outcome alignment roadmap conceptualization and prioritization.
• Facilitate business process mapping and product mapping work sessions and actively participate in both functional and technological changes that can enhance the student and colleague experience as well as enable business growth and value
• Working in partnership with applicable product vendors to understand vendor product roadmaps and how these can be exploited to deliver business goals and outcomes as well as ensuring timely feature/product upgrades maximizing the efficiency and effectiveness of the assigned products. Minimize bespoke customization and influence business process changes to best utilize vendor supplied products.
• Maintain the quality and integrity of all new product introduction and existing product enhancements within their technical and team boundaries ensuring identification and contribution of risks and dependencies ensuring appropriate roadmaps reflect any impact
• Responsible for progressing all deliverables to done status and meet acceptance criteria by coordinating production deployment postimplementation analysis/feedback and ongoing support plan.
• Support definition of objectives definition of success metrics and articulation of business outcomes for assigned initiatives and product enhancements ensuring KPIs and targets are tracked reported on and support identifying impediments that are preventing from the realization of defined benefits
• Use approved tools and methodologies to manage workloads communicate progress ensure timely completion of deliverables and team adherence to maintaining accurately and consistently all delivery related metrics for assigned initiatives.
• Completes other duties as assigned and complies with all policies and standards

Requirements:

• Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3 years of Product Owner or Product Management experience with a background as a Business Analyst
• Experience with Generative AI preferred Machine Learning or traditional AI is acceptable
• Extensive experience writing user stories and acceptance criteria
• Experience working in with agile and waterfall methodologies
• Understands technical and functional design requirements.
• Technical depth of understanding deep enough to fluently converse with developers
• Experience in Higher Education is preferred