[Hiring] AI Product Portfolio Manager @SoftwareOne

Role Description

We are looking for an AI Product Portfolio Manager to join our newly established AI Office and shape how SoftwareOne develops, manages, and realizes value from its portfolio of AI products and intellectual property. The portfolio spans three areas:

• Client-facing AI Solutions built for commercialization
• Delivery Amplifiers that enhance how we deliver services
• Internal AI Products that improve and automate how SoftwareOne operates

This role sits at the intersection of business and technology, connecting SoftwareOne’s AI strategy with product delivery across customer-facing solutions, service delivery, and internal transformation. Working closely with business owners and Engineering, you will bring clarity to investment and prioritization decisions, promote reuse across products and teams, and ensure our AI intellectual property delivers measurable value.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in product management or product leadership within enterprise B2B software or technology services, with a strong track record working with AI/ML, data, or AI-enabled products
• Experience managing a portfolio of products or platforms, ideally spanning commercial solutions and internal products or capabilities
• Strong technical credibility, with the ability to work as a peer to Engineering leadership and make informed product trade-offs around build, buy, reuse, and scale
• Proven ability to turn strategy and complex business demand into clear product priorities, validated requirements, roadmaps, and measurable outcomes
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience driving outcomes through business owners, Engineering teams, and senior stakeholders outside direct line authority
• A highly proactive and outcome-focused approach, with the confidence to make decisions, create momentum, and drive a complex portfolio forward while balancing business value, technical feasibility, capacity, and Responsible AI considerations

Requirements

• Own the vision, roadmap, and priorities for SoftwareOne's AI product portfolio, determining what should be built, reused, scaled, or retired based on business value, strategic fit, and available capacity
• Manage the product lifecycle from idea and validation through build, release, scale, and retirement, establishing clear criteria and business ownership at key decision points
• Partner with Engineering leadership as a peer, creating clarity across product direction, requirements, priorities and acceptance while Engineering owns architecture, delivery and technical quality
• Give development pods clear product direction, scope and acceptance criteria, creating alignment across teams and ensuring outputs contribute to the wider portfolio and reusable capabilities rather than one-off solutions
• Partner with commercial and internal business owners to translate market and operational needs into product requirements and ensure solutions are ready for commercialization, rollout, adoption, and ongoing support
• Maintain strong portfolio governance and transparency, ensuring AI products meet SoftwareOne's Responsible AI and ISO 42001 requirements while providing a clear view of ownership, status, adoption, reuse, and value delivered

Benefits

• The opportunity to shape SoftwareOne's AI product portfolio as part of the newly established AI Office and the company's AI @ Work strategic priority
• Ownership across a diverse portfolio spanning commercial AI solutions, service delivery innovation, and internal transformation
• The opportunity to influence how SoftwareOne prioritizes investment and maximizes reuse across AI products, teams, and use cases
• Close partnership with Engineering and business leaders, connecting AI strategy with product delivery, commercialization, and adoption