Sainsbury's is embarking on an exciting journey of technological investment and innovation. We are seeking a talented, enthusiastic and highly motivated AI/ML Platform Product Owner with a strong understanding of advanced AI concepts to join our growing team. You will be responsible for collaborating and defining the vision, strategy, and roadmap for our AI/ML platform, enabling data scientists, ML engineers, and analysts to build, deploy, and manage ML models and AI solutions efficiently and responsibly. This role will require a strong understanding of MLOps, CI/CD pipelines, model monitoring, and orchestration. You will play a crucial role in defining and executing the strategy AI/ML Platforms, ensuring robust model governance, and compliance frameworks are in place to drive innovation while maintaining ethical AI standards. You should demonstrate strong interpersonal skills that enable you to understand various perspectives, together driving towards successful implementation of platforms and capabilities that align with our business goals. 

As a Senior Product Manager you will:  

• Define and articulate a comprehensive vision and roadmap for the AI/ML platform, building in complete end to end customer experiences that deliver on agreed product metrics (OKRs) and ensuring alignment with Sainsbury’s strategic objectives.
• You’ll own the customer and business value for specific products, including securing support through the appropriate process and relevant technology teams 
• Accountable for end-to-end delivery in product management for specific products, ensuring activity is prioritised in line with the agreed product goals and metrics 
• You’ll maintain a realistic roadmap, as well as a prioritised, estimated FY backlog and regularly communicating progress, proactively managing risks/issues to remove blockers 
• Lead the collaboration within both the core family team, other product teams and 3rd parties to launch new product features, maximising re-use across the business 
• Partner with data scientists, data engineers, product owners, and business units to drive the successful adoption of AI/ML solutions across the organisation.
• Evaluation of potential partner relationships; helping to identify necessary and/or desirable third-party technology to evaluate and select vendors 
• You’ll support the communication and resolution of live product incidents and effectively prioritise, coordinate and communicate the resolution of production issues 

What you need to know  

• Knowledge and understanding of a Data Capabilities, AI and ML business and the technology landscape, and how to maximise the value that products can and will add 
• Knowledgeable about AI ethics, fairness, and governance frameworks, with a strong understanding of the challenges and best practices in ensuring responsible AI. 
• Skilled at quantifying the business impact of AI/ML initiatives and translating complex technical concepts into business-friendly language.
• Understanding of Agile delivery and modern engineering team practices 
• Knowledge of technical product development principles and methodologies 
• Ability to translate business goals, technology strategy and market knowledge into a product roadmap that prioritises delivery of value and enables future business agility 
• Anticipating risks and opportunities, responding to escalations at pace and coaching others to find solutions based on your expertise 
• Ability to switch between strategic visioning and getting into the detail, being the authority in all aspects of your product 
• Awareness of existing and future stacks/interfaces for the product and how to develop these so they work seamlessly for customers and colleagues 
• A high level of team contribution, seek opportunities to provide input and support across the team and outside core areas of focus 
• An awareness of how on data is used across our business 
• Comfortable with dealing with ambiguity in order to cut through issues and solve complex problems 
• Understanding of Key Performance Metric Indicators (KPI metrics) and how they are used to support business processes 
• Ability to address priority challenges and decisions in a calm, pragmatic and professional manner 
• Ability to navigate across multiple domains to help secure requirements, stakeholder relationships, and key technical solutions.  
• Experience with working with both onshore and offshore teams 

Support we will provide   

• Colleague discount across our multi-brands – Sainsbury’s, Argos, Tu and Habitat 
• Holiday allowance 
• Bonus scheme 
• Pension plan 
• Special offers on gym memberships, restaurants, holidays, retail vouchers and more 

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals. 

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We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.  
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).