Overview
The Associate Product Owner will implement the AI Sector strategy for their vertical, working with sector experts to embed domain knowledge into AI systems and ensure AI products incorporate WBG safeguards and operational constraints.
Key Responsibilities
- Identify high value AI opportunities across verticals and sectors.
- Define the long-term AI vision and roadmap for agents, copilots, and multiagent systems.
- Work with the development team to define requirements for model selection, retrieval sources, prompt orchestration, and multi-agent flows.
- Monitor agent performance using analytics.
- Lead product marketing for AI/Agentic AI solutions.
- Drive adoption and change management for AI features.
- Translate sector team needs to clear product requirements, features, and user journeys.
- Prioritize capabilities using data, user insights, and evolving business priorities.
- Engage with business stakeholders to understand their needs and challenges.
- Develop product KPIs.
- Actively monitor client needs, industry trends, Bank priorities, KPIs, and user feedback.
- Manage vendor engagements to support product delivery and compliance.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 5 years relevant experience with a Master's degree in STEM fields, or 7 years of product management experience with a Bachelor's degree.
- Demonstrated expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), with solid knowledge of machine learning, natural language processing, and AI-driven solution development.
- Proven ability to translate complex business requirements into impactful AI-enabled product features.
- Demonstrated ability to define and execute AI product strategies.
- Experience designing products that use RAG, multi-agent architectures, or workflow automation using LLMs.
- Ability to translate sector knowledge into AI-ready workflows and features.
- Familiarity with responsible AI frameworks, human-in-the-loop design, and principles governing automated reasoning systems.
- Experience developing adoption strategies, messaging, demos, narratives, and impact stories for AI products.
- Ability to communicate AI concepts clearly to operational users, sector specialists, and senior management.
- Experience working with WBG operational platforms and workflows (preferred).
- Proven track record of successfully developing and launching technology products in large-scale environments.
- Experience managing vendor engagements.
- Proven ability to collaborate with other team members across boundaries.
- Strong presentation and collaboration skills with a proven record of leading meetings and influencing stakeholders in multicultural environments.
- Passion for innovation and staying up to date with the latest technology trends.
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities.
- Able to take personal ownership and accountability to meet deadlines and achieve agreed-upon results.
Qualifications
• Master's degree in STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), or Bachelor’s degree.
