AI Product Owner: Life Sciences Platform Lead

Danaher Corporation; Woking; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

IDBS, a Danaher operating company, is seeking a Principal Product Owner for AI to lead the AI capabilities of the Polar platform. You will translate complex scientific workflows into practical, auditable features and drive high-impact outcomes across RAG, vector search, and grounded AI workflows.

You will collaborate with ML engineering, data engineering, and UX to ensure compliant, scalable and cost-effective AI solutions, while engaging pilot customers and partners to validate concepts and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in computer science, bioinformatics, data science, engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience as Product Owner or Technical Product Manager delivering software in Agile/SAFe environments.
• Hands-on experience defining specifications for RAG, vector search, semantic retrieval, or LLM-driven features.

Responsibilities

• Define AI capabilities and scope by translating scientific workflows into user stories with acceptance criteria and grounding thresholds.
• Champion evaluation culture by curating datasets and establishing regression gates for retrieval and generation quality.
• Oversee backlog, sprint planning, and PI planning for AI feature teams in collaboration with ML engineering, data engineering, and UX.
• Bridge platform and AI integration with upstream data and data contracts across ELN, spreadsheets, and inventory data.
• Govern compliance and security with tenant isolation by design, monitoring token economics, latency, and quota utilization.
• Drive customer adoption and validation by working with pilots in Early Access and Design Partner programs.

Skills

AI product ownership

Agile / Scrum

Stakeholder management

Technical backlog writing

RAG / LLM concepts

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Bedrock

OpenSearch

Databricks

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Job description

IDBS, a Danaher operating company, is seeking a Principal Product Owner for AI to lead the AI capabilities of the Polar platform. You will translate complex scientific workflows into practical, auditable features and drive high-impact outcomes across RAG, vector search, and grounded AI workflows.

You will collaborate with ML engineering, data engineering, and UX to ensure compliant, scalable and cost-effective AI solutions, while engaging pilot customers and partners to validate concepts and