AI-Driven Product Owner for SaaS Testing & Workday Solutions

Kainos; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kainos in the United Kingdom is seeking a Product Owner to lead our AI-enabled Workday testing product. You’ll shape the roadmap, translate customer needs into user stories, and collaborate across engineering, sales, marketing and professional services to deliver real value.

This role offers opportunities to advance within the Kainos Smart business as we scale, with travel to customer sites as needed and a strong focus on measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 2-3 years’ experience working as a Product Owner in a SaaS environment, managing backlogs, working with development teams and prioritising roadmaps.
• Demonstrable experience of creating customer value using generative or agentic AI.
• Outcome oriented mindset – Demonstrated aptitude to connect product investments with measurable customer value and outcomes.
• Customer focused – Comfort engaging with customers and users; act as the voice of the customer.
• Proven ability to navigate competing priorities and align stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills with strong negotiation ability.

Responsibilities

• Know your customer’s needs, personas, and why they engage with your product.
• Become an expert in the problems we solve for our customers and “why” they matter.
• Know your competition and how to stay ahead of them.
• Use generative and agentic AI to deliver real‑world customer value.
• Continually validate that you deliver measurable customer value.
• Lead workshops with customers and internal stakeholders to unpack requirements.
• Be ready to back your decisions with quantitative and qualitative data.
• Build alignment across engineering, sales, pre‑sales, marketing and professional services.
• Use AI to accelerate discovery and rapidly prototype ideas.
• Manage roadmap delivery – Creating actionable user stories, setting measurable success criteria, and tracking actual outcomes against target.
• Ensure close alignment to business goals and values.
• Launch products and features to market – organising delivery, pre‑sales, and onboarding – and drive adoption.
• Contribute to marketing campaigns and support Sales with product demos.
• Scope MVP and Early Adopter Programmes – setting expectations and exit gates.
• Be responsible - Identifying and mitigating risks to the business and to the project.

Skills

Product ownership

Backlog management

Roadmap prioritization

Stakeholder alignment

Customer focus

Technical collaboration

Communication

AI product sense

Requirement elicitation

Job description

Kainos in the United Kingdom is seeking a Product Owner to lead our AI-enabled Workday testing product. You’ll shape the roadmap, translate customer needs into user stories, and collaborate across engineering, sales, marketing and professional services to deliver real value.

This role offers opportunities to advance within the Kainos Smart business as we scale, with travel to customer sites as needed and a strong focus on measurable outcomes.