AI Product Manager in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire

Job Title: Product Manager - AI Adoption Team
Location: Welwyn Garden CIty or London
Employment Type: Contract
Duration: 03 Months with possible extension or FTE

Our client is seeking a talented and enthusiastic Product Manager to join their dynamic AI Adoption Team within the retail sector. This exciting opportunity is perfect for someone passionate about leveraging AI tools to drive business impact and enhance productivity!

In this role, the Product Manager will play a pivotal part in shaping the future of AI use across the organisation. The AI Adoption Team focuses on connecting colleague productivity with AI opportunities, ensuring responsible and sustainable implementation. The team thrives on collaboration, working closely with various business and technology units to deliver meaningful change.

Key Responsibilities:

• Formulate the vision and strategy for AI capability adoption, aligning with strategic priorities, dependencies, and the overall roadmap.
• Own the product roadmap and prioritised backlog, balancing colleague needs, business value, risk, cost, and delivery capacity.
• Collaborate with business sponsors and users to understand current workflows, qualify AI opportunities, and establish clear success measures.
• Work alongside engineers and platform teams to test and assess AI solutions, recommending whether to scale, improve, or halt based on pilot evidence.
• Partner with change, learning, and business teams to ensure effective integration of AI into workflows, measuring sustained use beyond training completion.
• Translate security, privacy, and operational requirements into clear product specifications, obtaining necessary approvals.
• Monitor AI licence and consumption costs while tracking quality and adoption metrics, optimising investment based on proven assets.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders regarding outcomes, risks, dependencies, and decisions throughout the product lifecycle.

Ideal Candidate Will Have:

• A strong foundation in Agile methodologies, with the ability to write effective user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Practical knowledge of enterprise generative AI tools and agents, with a keen understanding of their limitations and appropriate applications.
• Proven discovery and experimentation skills, including workflow mapping and evidence-based pilot success definition.
• A commercial mindset regarding AI licencing and consumption costs, with the ability to evaluate expected benefits against costs.
• An understanding of responsible AI practises, data protection, and access controls, translating these into actionable product requirements.
• Excellent influencing skills to engage with business, engineering, security, and change partners, fostering ownership of new workflows.

Preferred Background:

• Minimum of 2 years of experience in Product Management.
• Demonstrated success in tackling unstructured problems, creating MVPs, and making data-driven decisions based on experimentation.
• Experience coordinating with distributed, global teams and managing multiple stakeholders in an enterprise environment.
• Familiarity with enterprise AI adoption, internal productivity products, and workflow automation. Experience with tools like M365 Copilot or OpenAI is a plus.

This is an incredible opportunity to contribute to the integration of AI in a transformative way. If you are ready to make a meaningful impact and drive innovation in the retail sector, consider applying today!

For further details on this opportunity, please contact [Insert Contact Information].

Our client is committed to fostering a flexible work environment, understanding that everyone has unique needs. Open discussions about flexible working arrangements are always welcome throughout the application process.

Adecco is a disability-confident employer. It is important to us that we run an inclusive and accessible recruitment process to support candidates of all backgrounds and all abilities to apply. Adecco is committed to building a supportive environment for you to explore the next steps in your career. If you require reasonable adjustments at any stage, please let us know and we will be happy to support you.