AI Product Manager - Investment, Wealth or Asset Management

Lead AI Product Owner / AI Product Manager / Head of AI Products / Product Lead - AI
£600-700 p/d - IR35 - TBC - 6 Month initial contract - 3 days per week on site in London

Scope of the role:

The AI Product Owner will lead the identification, prioritisation, and delivery of AI-powered solutions that drive business value, improve efficiency, reduce risk, and enhance decision-making. Acting as the bridge between business, data, and technology teams, this role will support the client's transition to a data-driven, AI-enabled organisation. You will need to have worked in an Investment Management or Asset Management domain previously, as this is an essential experience required from our clients brief.

Key Responsibilities

The primary responsibility is to identify, prioritise and deploy AI use cases, in a controlled framework. This will include working across a range of LLMs:

• Partner with business teams to identify, assess and prioritise AI opportunities.
• Documentation that demonstrates AI will deliver against the goals of efficiency, insight, risk reduction.
• Eliciting from SMEs business requirements and delivering clear deliverables to the Technology team.
• Define and manage the AI product roadmap, aligning initiatives to business objectives.
• Identify, assess, and prioritise AI opportunities across the organisation.
• Build business cases and success measures for AI initiatives, focused on efficiency, insight, automation, and risk reduction.
• Gather and translate business requirements into clear product features and technical deliverables.
• Analyse business processes and data flows, documenting current and future-state operating models.
• Collaborate with technology and data teams to deliver AI solutions, including Generative AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), and intelligent automation.
• Manage product backlogs, priorities, testing, and business readiness activities.
• Ensure AI solutions are delivered in line with governance, compliance, privacy, and responsible AI requirements.
• Drive stakeholder engagement, adoption, benefit realisation, and ongoing optimisation.
• Support the development of wider AI capabilities, including process re-engineering, AI agents, and multi-agent orchestration.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Experience as a Product Owner, AI Product Owner, or similar role delivering AI, data, or digital transformation projects.
• Experience within investment management, asset management, wealth management, pensions, or financial services.
• Understanding of front, middle, and back-office investment processes and data.
• Experience working with AI technologies, including Generative AI and LLMs.
• Strong requirements gathering, stakeholder management, and product delivery skills.
• Ability to translate business needs into actionable product and technical requirements.
• Understanding of data governance, AI governance, model risk, and data privacy principles.

Desirable

• Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, or Business Analysis certification.
• Experience with Microsoft Copilot, Azure AI, OpenAI, Gemini, or similar platforms.
• Knowledge of AI agents, automation technologies, and emerging AI frameworks.

Success Measures

• Delivery of AI solutions that generate measurable business benefits.
• Increased adoption and maturity of AI capabilities across the organisation.
• Delivery within agreed governance, risk, and compliance frameworks.
• Achievement of defined efficiency, productivity, and business value targets

Reasonable Adjustments:

Respect and equality are core values to us. We are proud of the diverse and inclusive community we have built, and we welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and perspectives. Our success is driven by our people, united by the spirit of partnership to deliver the best resourcing solutions for our clients.

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