Position Title:  AI Product Owner

BE PART OF A REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with one clear purpose - to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

Purpose of the Job: The Product Owner ensures that AI Factory reusable technical components deliver maximum business value, are aligned with strategic priorities, and evolve based on user needs and operational insights. The role owns the product roadmap, backlog, and value realization metrics for AI Factory capabilities, acting as the bridge between business needs, architecture, engineering, and run‑operations. The Product Owner ensures clear requirements, quality acceptance criteria, business readiness, and continuous improvement of reusable AI components across PMI.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Product Vision, Roadmap & Value Alignment: Define and continuously evolve the product vision and multi‑release roadmap for AI Factory reusable components; Ensure alignment with PMI AI strategy, Business Operations priorities, capacity constraints, and architecture direction.
• Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Own and manage the product backlog; translate business demands, architecture assessments, and operational insights into structured backlog items; Prioritize based on value, risk, compliance needs, and technical feasibility in partnership with PGM, Architecture, and Engineering.
• Requirements, UX & Acceptance Criteria: Define high‑quality functional requirements, acceptance criteria, and non‑functional needs (security, quality, RAI, scalability); Ensure clarity for Engineering and Architecture teams during design and implementation phases.
• Delivery Enablement & Development Support: Work closely with Engineering Lead and AI Design Lead during build cycles to clarify scope, resolve ambiguities, and unblock delivery teams; Ensure reusable components evolve with consistent patterns, documentation, and enterprise‑grade robustness.
• Release Management & Business Readiness: Partner with Business Ops, Architecture, and Service Integrators to ensure release readiness, value realization, documentation, and user adoption; Validate that features meet acceptance criteria and compliance controls (InfoSec, RAI, QA).
• Continuous Improvement & Component Evolution: Gather feedback from users, Service Integrators, incident learnings, and engineering retrospectives; Convert learnings into backlog items, roadmap adjustments, and evolution requirements.
• Stakeholder Communication & Transparency: Provide transparent updates to leadership and stakeholders (roadmap, risks, KPIs, release notes); Facilitate cross‑team alignment across Architecture, Engineering, RAI, InfoSec, and Business Ops.
• KPI Ownership & Value Measurement for Products: Define and track KPIs for adoption, component performance, quality, reliability, and user satisfaction; Use data‑driven insights to adjust priorities, improve product fit, and ensure long‑term sustainability.

Skills and Competencies: 

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, Business Operations, or equivalent experience. Preferred: certifications in Product Management, Agile/Scrum, or experience with AI/ML delivery.
• Experience in product management or product ownership in technology environments.
• Background working with AI platforms, engineering teams, or enterprise technology systems.
• Exposure to governance, intake management, or multi‑stakeholder delivery models.
• Strong analytical skills and familiarity with security, compliance, or RAI considerations is a plus.
• Product roadmap & backlog management
• Requirements writing & acceptance criteria
• Business value definition & KPI management
• Cross‑functional collaboration (Architecture, Engineering, Ops, Security)
• Structured problem‑solving & analytical thinking
• Strong communication & stakeholder alignment
• Comfortable working in high‑ambiguity, multi‑vendor environments
• User‑centric and value‑driven mindset
• Understanding of SDLC, DevOps, and AI governance fundamentals

How you can make history with us?

 Our success depends on the men and women who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:

• Seize the freedom to define your future and ours – we’ll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore
• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong
• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress
• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to improve the lives of a billion smokers