Senior AI Product Manager - Shared Tooling

Bauer Media Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days holiday

Bauer Academy access

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working

Job summary

Bauer Media Group is seeking a Senior AI Product Manager to translate AI strategy into concrete product initiatives for shared tooling used across the Group, spanning nine markets and serving ~12,000 employees. You’ll own the product direction from discovery through adoption, balancing user needs with scalable, credible AI solutions.

You will work closely with engineers and senior AI leaders across lines of business, aligning stakeholders, validating assumptions, and turning emerging AI

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on AI product knowledge and MCP familiarity.
• Ability to lead engineering and non-technical teams; line management experience.
• Senior product management experience in a complex, multi-market organisation.
• Excellent user discovery and testing capabilities; translate insights into outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder and people skills with engineers and business leaders.
• Data-driven approach to prioritisation, measurement, and recommendations.
• User-focused product mindset with pragmatism and good judgement.

Responsibilities

• Translate AI strategy into product initiatives, priorities and delivery plans for shared tooling.
• Lead user discovery, research, usability testing and requirements gathering to understand needs and improve the end-to-end experience.
• Manage AI product and service development across the full lifecycle from discovery to launch and iteration.
• Collaborate with engineers to shape credible technical solutions and support testing and deployment.
• Shape integrations, connectors, knowledge graphs, and MCP-based capabilities within Bauer’s tech ecosystem.
• Support AI literacy and adoption by explaining capabilities, limitations and best practices.
• Promote knowledge sharing across Bauer’s markets and reuse capabilities while reducing duplicate work.
• Suggest future improvements for the Shared Tooling catalogue based on user needs and AI landscape.

Skills

AI product management

Stakeholder management

User discovery & testing

Cross-functional leadership

Product strategy

Tools

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Knowledge graphs

Integrations

Job description

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Senior AI Product Manager - Shared Tooling

Our Team: How we enrich everyday life

You will be joining the AI JCT — Joint Capability Team — a collaborative, internal group focused on helping Bauer Media Group use AI in practical, responsible, and impactful ways. The team’s mission is to pioneer AI-driven solutions that can be rapidly prototyped, improved through feedback, and scaled where they can deliver meaningful business value.

Working across Bauer’s markets, the AI JCT partners with teams to identify opportunities, build useful tools, support adoption, and share knowledge. You’ll help make AI accessible, useful, and effective across the organisation.

The Difference you will make

As Senior AI Product Manager, you will translate Bauer’s AI strategy into clear product initiatives for shared tooling used across the Group, serving approximately 12,000 employees. You’ll own the product direction from discovery through delivery and adoption, combining a strong product mindset with deep AI knowledge to ensure tools are useful, trusted, scalable, and aligned with user needs.

This is a role for an experienced, user-focused and technically sophisticated AIproduct leader who brings maturity and structure to complex challenges. You will spend much of your time partnering with engineers and senior AI leaders across other lines of business, while using strong people skills to align stakeholders, test assumptions, learn from users, and turn emerging AI capabilities into products that create measurable value.

Your role

You will be responsible for managing a portfolio of AI products and initiatives, with a particular focus on shared Group-wide tooling across Audio, Publishing, Outdoor and Central Functions across nine markets. Acting as the bridge between users, engineering teams, other JCTs, and senior AI leaders across Bauer Media Group, you will define product outcomes, guide delivery, and use evidence to improve products throughout their lifecycle.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Translate AI strategy into clear product initiatives, priorities and delivery plans for shared Group-wide tooling.
• Lead continuous user discovery, user research, usability testing, and requirements gathering to understand needs, validate assumptions, and improve the E2E experience.
• Manage AI product and service development across the full lifecycle, from discovery and prototyping through launch, adoption, measurement, and iteration.
• Partner closely with engineers to shape technically credible solutions, navigate trade-offs, and support testing, iteration, integration, and launch.
• Understand and shape integrations, connectors, knowledge graphs, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) based capabilities so products work effectively within Bauer’s technology ecosystem.
• Support adoption and AI literacy by helping teams understand product capabilities, limitations, responsible use, and best practice.
• Promote knowledge sharing and collaboration across Bauer’s markets, reusing capabilities and reducing duplicated effort where appropriate.
• Recommend future improvements and additional capabilities to add to our Shared Tooling catalogue in response to user needs and evolving AI landscape.

The Skills you will bring

• Strong, hands-on AI product knowledge, including an understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP), knowledge graphs, integrations, connectors, and the practical differences, strengths, and limitations of AI models.
• Demonstrated ability to lead engineering and non-technical teams effectively and line manage others.
• Proven senior product management experience developing and managing AI-enabled products in a complex or multi-market organisation.
• Strong user discovery and user testing experience, with the ability to translate insights into clear product outcomes, roadmaps, priorities, and practical delivery plans.
• Excellent stakeholder and people skills, with the maturity and credibility to work primarily with engineers and stakeholders across different lines of business.
• A data-obsessed approach to product management, using qualitative and quantitative evidence to prioritise, measure outcomes, and make clear recommendations.
• A genuinely user-focused product mindset, with sound judgement, curiosity, pragmatism, and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively.

Nice to have:

• Experience developing shared tooling, products, or infrastructure across a large, complex environment.

Working Pattern/Location

This is a permanent, full-time role with hybrid working arrangements from our London offices approx.1-2 days per week. S emi-regular travel to Bauer Audio markets.

About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

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Date Job Posting Last Updated: 3 Nov 2026