Technical Product Owner

Role: Technical Product Owner

Location: St Louis, MO (Hybrid role – 3 days/week)

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We are looking for a highly experienced Technical Product Owner who will support our transformation program and help to manage projects with financials timelines deliverables The ideal candidate will oversee the validation and lifecycle of our generative and predictive models Your mission is to ensure our AI systems are not just smart but are reliable enough for production ethically sound and performant under scale

What Youll Do

As a Technical Product Owner you will spearhead our AI Transformation initiatives managing a portfolio of highimpact projects from conception to deployment You will be responsible for defining managing the delivery roadmap managing multimillion dollar budgets ensuring rigorous timeline adherence and delivering AI solutions that provide measurable ROI

Your key responsibilities will include

Develop and maintain a rolling 12month roadmap that aligns with LOBOPS enterprisewide transformation goals and objectives

Budget Oversight Manage a multimillion dollar budget tracking spend across AI initiatives use cloud infrastructure GPUTPU costs thirdparty platform vendors and human capital

ROI Tracking Establish and monitor KPIs to measure the business impact of AI initiatives ensuring a clear path from deployment to bottomline growth

Executive Interfacing Provide regular updates to Csuite stakeholders on AI initiatives portfolio health risk profiles and value realization

Timeline Adherence Maintain rigorous project schedules identifying bottlenecks early and implementing mitigation strategies to ensure ontime delivery

AI Evangelism Work with business units to ensure high adoption rates of AI tools facilitating the cultural shift toward datadriven decisionmaking by enabling change management training

Analytical Ability Interpret AI initiatives associated performance dashboardsreports to make informed product pivots FOR Csuite stakeholders

Evaluate internal processes and market trends to identify highpotential AIML use cases

Manage the product backlog using datadriven frameworks to balance technical debt foundational infrastructure and highROI features

Experience managing 7figure budgets and performing CostBenefit Analysis CBA for technical projects

Model Velocity Time taken from a validated POC to a productiondeployed model

Business Impact Total cost savings or revenue uplift attributed to AI interventions

Skills

Mandatory Skills : Project Planning, Project Financial Management, Project Governance