Product Owner/Product Manager

Summary

Join JobLeads, a fully remote company with a positive and supportive culture, and become a Product Owner/Manager. You will own the problem space for one or more squads, translating strategy into an actionable roadmap and maintaining a value-driven backlog. You'll operate at the intersection of user needs, technical feasibility, and business goals, ensuring the right things are built at the right time and in the right way. This role blends traditional product management with specialized skills in AI product development. You will partner with the Head of Product, manage the AI product lifecycle, conduct user discovery, and define and monitor success metrics. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of relevant experience, demonstrated experience managing AI or data-intensive products, and strong user story writing and backlog management skills.

Requirements

• Min. 5+ years of relevant experience as a Product Owner/Product Manager in a commercial software development agile environment
• Demonstrated experience managing AI or data-intensive products
• Some understanding of the AI engineering tech stack—from context engineering to continuous evals
• Familiarity with Scrum or Kanban and standard agile practices in SWD
• Proven ability to turn qualitative and quantitative insights into product decisions
• Experience using analytics and A/B testing tools (e.g., Mixpanel, Optimizely)
• Strong user story writing and backlog management skills
• Technical fluency—able to engage in conversations about APIs, FE, BE, model selection, and trade-offs
• Comfort managing ambiguity and navigating fast-evolving technical landscapes
• A solid toolbox of personal AI powered applications or models to support you in your daily work as a product creator

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Head of Product to co-create OKRs and maintain a clear product vision aligned with company and AI-focussed strategy
• Continuously evaluate how evolving AI technologies influence previously unthinkable product direction and customer impact
• Build and maintain a NOW/NEXT/LATER roadmap focused on outcomes, not just outputs
• Make strategic trade-offs and communicate decisions clearly to cross-functional stakeholders
• Prioritize backlog items by value, effort, and risk, today and in the light of growing capabilities of foundational models
• Lead demos, backlog grooming, and release planning sessions
• Act as the conduit between engineering, design, data science, marketing, sales, and support
• Conduct user discovery through usage analytics, thorough A/B testing, and feature flagging
• Validate problem–solution fit and based on your customer understanding and hypothesis, while using data to update and correct your assumptions on each iteration
• Collaborate closely with AI engineers and data scientists to manage the AI product lifecycle—data collection, context engineering, deployment, and monitoring
• Embrace rapid iteration cycles and define tactics to deal with steeply increasing model performance
• Define and monitor success metrics for your domain of responsibility. Be they short term to monitor the day-to-day performance and reliability of your service, or longer term to measure your ultimate progress towards top level KPIs
• Ensure continuous improvement based on quantitative insights
• Make scope trade-offs to unblock teams and deliver incrementally
• Ensure all deliverables meet the Definition of Done and are accompanied by release notes and documentation

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in HR Tech or marketplace platforms
• Familiarity with OKR frameworks and outcome-based product planning
• Ability to build low fidelity prototypes or use tools like Figma, Streamlit, or Colab to test ideas quickly
• Knowledge of responsible AI practices, including bias mitigation and guardrail implementation

Benefits

• Work remotely from anywhere in the world —enjoy true location freedom
• Flexible working hours —balance your work and life on your own terms
• Your choice of IT equipment —we provide the tools you need to do your best work
• A close-knit, international team that fosters collaboration and inclusivity
• Competitive compensation that reflects your skills and experience
• Professional growth opportunities , including support for conferences and ongoing skill development
• Exciting projects that challenge convention and leave a lasting impact in the world of web development
• Unforgettable team events , including our annual JobLeads Sailing Week in the Mediterranean