AI product Owner

Roche; Basel; On-site; CHF 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Senior Product Owner to lead digital products with AI and GenAI capabilities. You will own the vision, roadmap, and backlog, partnering with engineers, data scientists, ML/GenAI specialists, and UX/UI designers.

The role focuses on adoption, governance, and measurable product impact across healthcare data initiatives. You will drive end-to-end product ownership, use analytics to inform decisions, and stay current with AI trends to deliver value in a regulated healthcare

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience building digital products with live users.
• End-to-end product ownership from concept to launch and ongoing operation.
• Experience with web/mobile apps, APIs, cloud, and agile delivery.
• Ability to engage in credible technical discussions without coding.
• Experience using data analytics to drive product decisions, incl. A/B testing.
• Hands-on understanding of AI/GenAI capabilities and application.
• User-centered design and research track record.
• Strong communication with engineers and executives.
• Advanced degree or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

• Identify business problems with Commercial stakeholders and translate into clear problem statements and opportunities.
• Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog; balance features, debt and new AI capabilities.
• Collaborate daily with engineers, data scientists, ML/GenAI engineers and UX/UI designers.
• Manage releases, test with users, and iteratively improve the product and production roadmap.
• Define product metrics and report results to business leaders to guide decisions.
• Develop onboarding, in-app guidance, and training materials to drive adoption.
• Coordinate with data platform, IT, security and compliance to meet governance.

Skills

Product ownership

AI / GenAI

Data analytics

User research

Communication

Agile delivery

Healthcare knowledge

Technical conversations

Team leadership

Education

Advanced degree

Tools

Analytics tools

A/B testing

APIs / Cloud

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position The Role

What You Will Do

• Discover: Identify the business problems to be solved with Commercial stakeholders and turn them into clear problem statements and opportunity areas.
• Define and prioritize: Own the product vision, roadmap, and backlog for your apps. Make trade‑off decisions between features, technical debt, and new AI capabilities.
• Build with your squad: Work daily with engineers, data scientists, ML and GenAI engineers, and UX/UI designers as a hands‑on decision partner. Shape solution design, including how LLMs, RAG, and agentic features are used in the user experience.
• Ship and iterate: Manage releases, test with users, and improve the product in short cycles. Own the production roadmap for the app. Measure and grow: Define product metrics (adoption, retention, task completion, time saved) and use them to guide decisions. Report results to business leaders.
• Drive adoption: Build onboarding, in‑app guidance, training materials, and feedback channels so users adopt the product and keep using it.
• Partner on governance: Work with data platform, IT, security, and compliance teams to ensure the product meets security, privacy, and regulatory requirements. You own the decisions, and these teams advise on constraints.
• Stay current: Track emerging AI tools and patterns and bring practical ones into the product. Have a clear Build / Buy strategy with the current emerging capabilities.

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience building digital products, with at least 3 years as the accountable owner of a live application used by real users.
• Proven end-to-end product ownership: you have taken ideas from concept through to launch and ongoing operation.
• Working knowledge of how software is built and delivered (web or mobile apps, APIs, cloud, agile delivery).
• You can have credible technical conversations without needing to write code.
• Experience using data and analytics to make product decisions, including product analytics tools and A/B testing.
• Hands‑on understanding of AI and GenAI capabilities (LLMs, prompt design, RAG, semantic search) and their practical limits.
• Track record of user‑centered design and research.
• Strong communication skills for both engineers and executives.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative, technical, or product field, or equivalent experience.
• Nice to Have Experience in pharma, biotech, or healthcare, especially commercial data (syndicated sales, marketing metrics, RWE, payer data). Experience designing adoption programs for complex, matrixed organizations.

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.