NextGen AI Manager

EY; Greater London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm in Greater London is seeking a Product Leader specializing in NextGen AI innovations. This role involves managing product backlogs, ensuring compliance, and engaging with stakeholders to deliver rapid prototypes and pilots. Candidates should have over 6 years of experience in product leadership or consulting, with a strong understanding of GenAI concepts and excellent communication skills. Join us to help shape the future of business with confidence.

Benefits

Future-focused skills development

Flexible work environment

Diverse and inclusive culture

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product leadership, consulting, or program delivery.
• Ability to manage engineering teams effectively.
• Familiarity with GenAI concepts and enterprise constraints.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the product backlog across prototype, pilot, and MVP.
• Plan sprints and align pod staffing while managing dependencies.
• Coordinate governance reviews and sign-offs.
• Prepare executive updates and demo narratives.

Skills

Product leadership

Consulting

Program delivery

Excellent written/verbal communication

Stakeholder management

GenAI familiarity

Tools

Azure DevOps

BI dashboards

Azure OpenAI

Teams/SharePoint

Job description

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The opportunity

You are the business-facing owner for a NextGen AI area such as Reasoning Models or Vibe Coding. These are innovations that can underpin EY's reasoning capabilities or that change the way our developers write software. Some are as you might lead on include chain of thought reasoning, deep research, and other capabilities that can augment at a higher level how our people do their work.

You will work with our engineer to deliver rapid prototypes and light pilots that prove value. You own intake, prioritization, scope, KPIs, acceptance and ensure we learn quickly without compromising compliance. Partners with Engineering; reports progress and risks to leadership; represents business stakeholders day-to-day, engages with our account teams and clients on the area you lead.

About the team - How we operate

• Prove Value Fast: We run light pilots, quantify impact, and iterate.
• Governed Experimentation: Safe sandboxes with high compliance guardrails so we learn quickly without compromising compliance.
• Work with our clients: We engage with our client facing professionals to test out our pilots with customers and ensure we had value.

What you’ll do

• Backlog ownership: Maintain the product backlog across prototype → pilot → MVP.
• Delivery management: Plan short sprints; align pod staffing; manage dependencies.
• Governance & compliance: Coordinate reviews and sign-offs.
• Stakeholder comms: Prepare exec updates, release notes, demo narratives; elevate issues early with options/impact.

Minimum qualifications

• 6+ years in product leadership, consulting, or program delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex business processes into clear requirements and ability to manage engineering teams at pace and operate at a great cadence.
• Familiarity with GenAI concepts and enterprise constraints (privacy, security, etc).
• Excellent written/verbal communication; executive stakeholder presence.

Preferred qualifications

• Background in regulated domains.
• Experience running pilots and driving change management in client environments.

Tools & stack you may touch

• Backlog/Delivery: Azure DevOps
• Analytics: BI dashboards
• AI Platforms: Azure OpenAI endpoints (familiarity; hands‑on not required)
• Collaboration: Teams/SharePoint

What we offer you

At EY, we'll develop you with future‑focused skills and equip you with world‑class experiences. We'll empower you in a flexible environment, and fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. Learn more.

Are you ready to shape your future with confidence? Apply today.

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