AI Product Owner

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Job Summary
As a Product Owner, candidate will be responsible for and own the data product backlog. Working closely with AI squad made of Data Scientist and Full Stack Product Developer to deliver solutions to opportunities identified by business PO.

This role is critical in driving AI adoption and enablement across the bank functions.

This pivotal role will act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that AI initiatives align with business goals and deliver tangible value. It will be responsible for translating complex AI concepts into actionable business strategies and facilitating the successful implementation of AI-driven solutions.

Responsibilities
Strategy

• Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.
• Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation.

Business

• Business Analysts, Business Partners, COO Business, ITO, CDO, internal staff, clients and 3rd parties.

Processes

• Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform business decisions and strategy.
• Collaborate with data science teams to design and implement AI models and algorithms that address specific business needs.
• Interpret and communicate the results of AI models to business stakeholders, highlighting key insights and recommendations.

Governance

• Develop and implement change management plans to ensure successful adoption of AI solutions across the organization.
• Provide training and support to business users to help them understand and leverage AI tools and technologies.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by promoting the benefits of AI and encouraging experimentation.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles

Key Stakeholders

• Collaborate with business leaders to identify opportunities for AI applications that address key business challenges and drive growth.
• Facilitate communication between business units and technical teams, ensuring a clear understanding of AI project objectives, requirements, and expected outcomes.
• Conduct workshops and meetings to gather business requirements and translate them into technical specifications for AI solutions.

Other Responsibilities

• Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.

Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation

Qualifications

• Education Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Administration, Finance, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field.
• Languages English
• Minimum of 5-7 years of experience in a business analysis, project management, or a related role within the banking or financial services industry.
• Strong understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, with the ability to translate technical information into business language.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex data and generate actionable insights.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively convey complex concepts to diverse audiences.
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders.

Role Specific Technical Competencies

• Generative AI
• predictive modeling
• LLMs
• Python

About Standard Chartered
We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together We

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What We Offer
In line with our Fair Pay Charter,
we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.