AI Product Manager — AI‑First RegTech & AML

SmartSearch; Ilkley; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private Medical Insurance

Pension scheme

Life Assurance – 4x annual salary

Volunteer day

Enhanced maternity / paternity

Employee Assistance Programme

Cycle to work

Job summary

SmartSearch is seeking an AI Product Manager to shape AI-enabled products across customer-facing and internal operations. You will own discovery through to launch, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data, UX, Compliance and Commercial teams to drive measurable value.

You will balance innovation with governance, feasibility and commercial outcomes, bringing experience in RegTech/AML and AI-driven product delivery to a fast-growing, collaborative tech company.

Qualifications

• Proven Product Management experience within a B2B SaaS or technology-led environment.
• Experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps and measurable outcomes.
• Strong product discovery skills, including customer research, problem definition and hypothesis validation.
• Commercial awareness and experience developing business cases or assessing investment opportunities.
• Ability to translate complex technical concepts into clear customer and business outcomes.
• Experience leading cross-functional delivery across Product, Engineering, UX and business stakeholders.
• Experience delivering AI, machine learning, generative AI or data-driven products.
• Understanding of responsible AI, model risk, data governance or human oversight considerations.
• Experience taking AI-enabled capabilities from experimentation into scalable production services.
• Experience supporting pricing, packaging, product adoption or go-to-market activity.
• Experience in a regulated industry, RegTech, AML, KYC or KYB.

Responsibilities

• Identify high-value opportunities for AI across customer-facing products and internal operations.
• Lead customer, user and stakeholder discovery to understand problems, needs, behaviours and desired outcomes.
• Translate insight into clear problem statements, hypotheses, product opportunities and measurable outcomes.
• Assess opportunities using customer value, strategic alignment, commercial potential, feasibility, risk and data readiness.
• Define and maintain the product vision, strategy and roadmap for AI-enabled capabilities.
• Build evidence-based business cases, including expected benefits, investment needs and measures of success.
• Prioritise initiatives and delivery increments based on evidence, value and strategic fit.
• Ensure the AI portfolio remains coherent, focused and aligned with wider Product and business priorities.
• Work closely with Engineering, Data, UX and Compliance from experimentation and prototyping through to production.
• Translate opportunities into clear product outcomes, requirements and delivery plans without prescribing technical solutions.
• Support iterative delivery, making informed trade-offs based on learning, risk and customer value.
• Balance innovation with responsible AI, transparency, data protection, governance and appropriate human oversight.
• Plan for product adoption, internal readiness and go-to-market activity alongside Commercial and customer-facing teams.
• Define and monitor adoption, quality, efficiency, customer and commercial KPIs.
• Use product performance, customer feedback and operational data to guide ongoing optimisation.
• Champion evidence-based decision making and communicate progress, outcomes and learning clearly.

Skills

Product Management

B2B SaaS

Cross-functional delivery

AI/ML products

Pricing & GTM

RegTech / AML

Job description

SmartSearch is seeking an AI Product Manager to shape AI-enabled products across customer-facing and internal operations. You will own discovery through to launch, collaborating with Product, Engineering, Data, UX, Compliance and Commercial teams to drive measurable value.

You will balance innovation with governance, feasibility and commercial outcomes, bringing experience in RegTech/AML and AI-driven product delivery to a fast-growing, collaborative tech company.