Senior AI Product Manager – Freelance (Financial Services)

Contract Type: Freelance
Start Date: Immediate
Duration: TBC
Location: UK-based with regular travel to London

The Role
We're recruiting for a financial services client who needs an experienced AI Product Manager to lead high-priority transformation initiatives. You'll be working on AI-driven automation projects that will significantly improve operational efficiency across critical business functions, with initial focus on risk and decisioning workflows. This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you'll work directly with engineering and business teams to ship AI solutions that create measurable impact. You'll have significant autonomy and direct access to senior stakeholders, operating in a fast-paced environment that values execution over process.

Key Responsibilities
Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI product initiatives from discovery through to production deployment
Define product strategy, success metrics and roadmaps for AI-enabled workflow automation
Work closely with engineering teams to design and implement solutions using LLMs and related AI technologies
Build business cases and demonstrate ROI through clear metrics on efficiency gains, cost reduction and risk improvement
Run rapid experimentation cycles to validate approaches and iterate based on real-world performance
Establish best practices and frameworks that can be scaled across the organisation
Communicate progress and insights to executive stakeholders

What We're Looking For
You're an experienced product manager who has successfully delivered AI products into production. You combine strong technical understanding with commercial acumen and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments. Must-haves:
Production AI experience : You've shipped products using large language models, built retrieval systems, and understand the practical challenges of getting AI into production
Technical depth : Comfortable discussing model evaluation, prompt engineering, system architecture, performance trade-offs and integration patterns with engineers
Business impact focus : Track record of quantifying and delivering measurable outcomes; can build compelling cases for investment and navigate senior stakeholder conversations
Delivery orientation : Pragmatic, action-biased approach; comfortable working without extensive support structures and able to drive progress across multiple workstreams
Product management fundamentals : Strong discovery, prioritisation and stakeholder management skills
Nice-to-haves:
Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
Background in process automation or operational transformation
Ability to mentor and build capability in teams new to AI product development

The Environment
Expect a dynamic, high-trust culture where you'll have real ownership over outcomes
Direct engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
Collaborative working style with experienced technical and delivery professionals
Opportunity to shape how AI is adopted across a significant organisation
Fast decision-making with space to experiment and learn

Why This Role?
This is an opportunity to work on genuinely transformative AI applications with clear business impact. You'll be joining at a point where your work will directly influence how the organisation approaches AI adoption, and you'll have the backing to move quickly and prove what's possible. If you're someone who gets energised by turning AI potential into practical reality, thrives on seeing your work drive real change, and wants to operate with unusual levels of autonomy and impact, this could be an excellent fit. This role is being managed by StudioVentures on behalf of our client.