AI Product Owner/Senior Product Owner

N-iX is looking for AI Product Owner / Senior Product Owner to join the team

About the Role:

AI Product Manager responsible for driving the success of AI products by combining expertise in product management principles with a deep understanding of AI technologies and their applications.

We are looking for an AI-savvy Product Manager to join the project programme for our Client. The Engineering team builds and maintains a framework-agnostic UI component library used across Client’s software products, and is now actively embedding AI-assisted workflows, MCP-based agentic infrastructure, and automated SDLC tooling into its engineering practice.

In this role you will own the product backlog, define and prioritise the roadmap for AI-enhanced capabilities, align cross-functional stakeholders (engineering, architecture, Client’s PMs), and drive measurable delivery outcomes in a fast-moving agentic tooling context.

About the Client:

Our Client is the largest engineering company in Europe, and holds the position of global market leader in industrial AI, automation, and industrial software.

Become a part of Client’s innovation department which is creating and managing cutting-edge technical architectures, serves as a shared platform for research and development within Client's large organization. It primarily focuses on research and development including broad incorporation of Artificial Intelligence (AI), cloud-based software, high-performance computing, etc.

Responsibilities:

• Define and maintain the AI product roadmap for the  UI component library product, aligned with Client’s Digital Innovation department’s strategic objectives.
• Translate business goals and engineering insights into a prioritised, well-groomed backlog using PMBOK and agile best practices.
• Lead quarterly UI component library roadmap reviews with stakeholders and N-iX leadership.
• Own the product definition for AI-integrated SDLC tooling: issue analysers, GitLab analytics skills, Claude Code agents, MCP server configurations, and automated reporting pipelines.
• Work closely with the UI Architect, Engineering Leads to evaluate and prioritise new AI capabilities for integration into the  UI component library development lifecycle.
• Define acceptance criteria for agentic features, including observable behaviour, error handling, and handoff points between human and AI agents.
• Manage and refine a complex backlog spanning UI components, AI tooling, DevOps automation, and platform quality.
• Coordinate and execute releases planning and scope management
• Aligning on business needs, performing AI-analysis for advancing the prioritization process, ensuring the issues and new features are structured and validated with business stakeholders/consumers.
• Act as the primary bridge between Client’s product stakeholders and the vendor’s and N-iX’s engineering teams, ensuring clear, timely, and transparent communication.
• Produce executive-level product roadmaps reports aligned to Company’s brand guidelines.
• Identify, track, and escalate risks and dependencies in the delivery timeline.
• Maintain the consumer-facing UI component library roadmap based on user requests and feedback; facilitate correction actions for input requirements from component consumers.
• Champion quality gate automation, testing framework improvements, and CI/CD pipeline coverage as product-level acceptance criteria.

Requirements:

Product Ownership

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in a software engineering environment.
• Proven track record of managing complex backlogs with competing priorities across multiple workstreams.
• Strong command of agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban) and PMBOK knowledge areas.

AI & Technical Fluency

• Working knowledge of AI/LLM-powered tooling - including prompt engineering, agentic workflows, and MCP (Model Context Protocol) concepts.
• Ability to define product requirements for AI features without requiring deep ML expertise; comfort working alongside AI infrastructure and agent teams.
• Familiarity with modern SDLC automation: CI/CD pipelines, GitLab, automated code review, AI-assisted issue triage, and analytics-driven PM.

Stakeholder & Delivery Management

• Demonstrated ability to manage enterprise stakeholders in a distributed, multi-vendor delivery model.
• Experience translating technical delivery progress into executive-ready communications (status reports, roadmap decks, risk registers).
• Data-driven mindset: comfortable with delivery metrics (cycle time, throughput, burndown, eNPS) as inputs to backlog prioritisation.

Communication & Documentation

• Excellent written and verbal communication in English (business-level required; C1+).
• Ability to produce well-structured PRDs, discovery outputs, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder presentations.

Nice to have:

• Experience with UI platform or design system products (component libraries, Stencil.js, web components).
• Familiarity with MCP server architecture, LLM agent orchestration frameworks (LangChain, Semantic Kernel, CrewAI), or agentic infrastructure patterns.
• Background working within large enterprise engineering organisations.
• Experience using AI-powered PM analytics or GitLab data pipelines for project health reporting.
• Proficiency with data visualisation tools (Power BI, Grafana, custom HTML/PDF reports).