AI Product Owner

Kingfisher plc; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Private Health Care

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

25 Days' Holiday

Staff Discount

Kingfisher SIP

Job summary

Kingfisher plc is seeking an AI Product Owner to drive the vision, prioritisation, and delivery of AI products across the Group. You will balance business value, technical complexity, stakeholder expectations, and delivery outcomes within a fast-moving enterprise environment.

You will define product vision, own the backlog, and work with business teams, engineering and data science to turn complex challenges into scalable AI solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

Qualifications

• Experience as AI/IT product owner or product manager in a technology/digital delivery environment.
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies and product management practices.
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Own the vision, roadmap, and value delivery for Group AI products aligned to business strategy and objectives.
• Engage senior stakeholders across banners and functions to align priorities and manage dependencies.
• Translate business requirements into clear AI product propositions, MVPs, and prioritised backlogs.
• Define outcome-based success measures and track product performance.

Skills

Product Ownership

Agile

Stakeholder Mgmt

IT literacy

Cross-functional teams

Change management

Communication

Job description

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas to life. Guided by our purpose Better Homes. Better Lives. For Everyone. We believe a better world starts with better homes, and we work every day to make that a reality. Join us and help shape the future of home improvement.

AI is reshaping how retailers operate, make decisions, and deliver value to customers. At Kingfisher, our Group AI team is building scalable, responsible AI products that support smarter operations, improved customer experiences, and stronger commercial outcomes across our international banners.

We are looking for an AI Product Owner to help drive the vision, prioritisation, and delivery of AI products across the Group. This role is suited to a commercially minded product professional who can balance business value, technical complexity, stakeholder expectations, and delivery outcomes within a fast-moving enterprise environment.

As an AI Product Owner, you will be responsible for maximising the value delivered by AI products across Kingfisher. You will define product vision and priorities, own the backlog, and work closely with business stakeholders, engineering, data science, and delivery teams to turn complex business challenges into scalable AI solutions.

You will play a key role in shaping AI use cases, defining measurable outcomes, and ensuring products are delivered responsibly, effectively, and with clear business impact.

This role requires strong stakeholder management, strategic thinking, and the ability to balance competing priorities while maintaining focus on long-term value delivery and adoption.

• Own the vision, roadmap, and value delivery for Group AI products aligned to business strategy and objectives
• Engage senior stakeholders across banners and functions to align priorities and manage dependencies
• Translate business requirements into clear AI product propositions, MVPs, and prioritised backlogs
• Balance business value, technical feasibility, data readiness, and risk when making delivery decisions
• Define and track outcome-based success measures to demonstrate impact, adoption, and product performance
• Continuously refine priorities and scope based on delivery outcomes, feedback, and learning
• Partner with Technology and business teams to ensure AI products remain scalable, reliable, and continuously improved
• Support the adoption and optimisation of AI products across the organisation
• Ensure stakeholders feel heard and engaged, even where competing priorities impact roadmap decisions
• Champion responsible AI practices throughout the product lifecycle

• Previous Product Owner or Product Management experience within technology or digital delivery environments
• Strong understanding of agile delivery methodologies and product management practices
• Experience working across cross-functional teams including technology, engineering, data, and business stakeholders
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability with confident IT literacy
• Experience delivering IT-related change initiatives within complex business environments
• Excellent stakeholder management, influencing, and facilitation skills
• Strong communication and relationship-building capability across all levels of the organisation
• Ability to prioritise effectively and make informed trade-off decisions
• Collaborative mindset with strong team-working capability
• Experience building and delivering initiatives using structured project or product methodologies

How We Work
We believe in flexibility and balance. Our hybrid model blends home working for focus with time spent connecting and collaborating - whether in our offices or at offsite locations.On average within ourEngineering team-40% of your time involvingin-person collaboration.

What We Offer
An inclusive environment where your potential is limited only by your imagination. We encouragenew ideas, support experimentation, and strive to create a workplace where everyone can be their best self.Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.Scroll down below to find out more aboutour benefits.

Diversity & Inclusion
Our customers come from allwalks of life- and so do we.We’recommitted to ensuring all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants are treated equally, regardless of age,gender, marital or civil partnership status, ethnicity, culture, religion, belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation.

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Private Health Care

Opportunity to receive up to family level cover with AXA. Join within three months of starting or at annual renewal in April. (This benefit is subject to Benefit In Kind taxation).

Kingfisher Pension Scheme

Immediate eligibility through auto-enrolment. Contribute 8% to receive a max 14% from the Company.

25 Days' Holiday

25 days per annum plus bank holidays as stated in your contract (pro rated for part time colleagues).

Staff Discount

20% discount at B&Q and Screwfix. Eligible after 3 months service.

Kingfisher Share Incentive Plan (SIP)

Share ownership in a tax efficient way. Save between £10 to £150 per month. Join at any time once three months service is reached.

Life Assurance

x4 Salary plus benefit equal to value of your Retirement Account (if an active member of KPS-MP) or x1 Salary if not active member.

Bonus

Competitive bonus scheme that aligns to work level of role.

Kingfisher Share Save

Save with the option to buy Kingfisher plc shares at the end of a 3 or 5 year period. Offered annually. Three months service is required at the annual invitation date, normally in October.

Our Behaviours

At Kingfisher, being all-in means contributing fully to our ambitions, supporting one another, and helping create a culture where we succeed together.

Continuously curious. Listen to understand. Always improving.

We are brave

Aim high. Act with courage. Move with pace.

We win together

Lead with customer. Commit to deliver. Help each other win.

Our employees know us best. We wouldn’t be Kingfisher without them. So, we want to share what they think with you.

Training & Development

There are so many ways you can grow, learn, and develop here at Kingfisher. At whatever pace suits you.

Conversations with senior leaders

Resources and tools to help you grow

Improving without instruments to help you learn is near impossible. That's why we make sure you have everything at your fingertips to find exactly what you need to keep growing.

Initiatives that measure development

With plans that ask you what you want to achieve and when you want to achieve them by, tracking progress and keeping development at the forefront of conversation is easy.

Find your path

The scale of group functions within Kingfisher is huge. That means you have the chance to build different career paths within multiple areas of the organisation.

Sharing is caring

We aren't selfish here at Kingfisher. Whatever you level of experience, you'll work with colleagues who are always welcoming and ready to share their knowledge whenever you need it.

Reach for the stars

So your ambitions are high? Good thing we have opportunities to find experiences in line with more senior roles and responsibilities. Here, you can evolve your career, no matter your level.

Why Kingfisher

We’re an innovative, international retailer on a journey to actively make a difference. Always striving to take that next step. You can be part of the difference. From bottom to top you can progress in a collaborative environment. So, why not Kingfisher?