AI Product Owner: Strategy, Value & Scale

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

Job summary

Kingfisher is seeking an AI Product Owner to drive vision, prioritisation and delivery of AI products across the Group. You’ll own the backlog, shape use cases, and collaborate with business, engineering and data science teams to translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions.

You will manage priorities, track measurable outcomes, and ensure responsible, high-impact product delivery across banners.

Qualifications

• 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.

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.
• 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.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

IT literacy

Change management

Communication

Prioritisation

Team collaboration

Job description

Kingfisher is seeking an AI Product Owner to drive vision, prioritisation and delivery of AI products across the Group. You’ll own the backlog, shape use cases, and collaborate with business, engineering and data science teams to translate complex challenges into scalable AI solutions.

You will manage priorities, track measurable outcomes, and ensure responsible, high-impact product delivery across banners.