Senior Product Manager - AI Studio (Scalable AI Solutions)

Poutrix; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Arcadis is expanding its AI Studio with cross-functional teams to identify, validate, and scale AI-enabled products and workflows that deliver measurable client value. As a Senior Product Manager, you will shape opportunities into actionable plans, working with business, tech, and domain experts to define clear solutions and go-to-market paths.

You will lead multidisciplinary teams, structure work, and drive delivery, adoption, and scale in a complex corporate environment with an entrepreneurial

Qualifications

• Extensive product management experience for digital or data-enabled products.
• Strong understanding of ML, DL, and Generative AI in product development.
• Ability to partner with SMEs to derive high-value solutions.
• Proven track record leading cross-functional teams from discovery to scale.
• Analytical thinker who shapes direction with evidence-based decisions.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize opportunities based on potential to strengthen competitiveness and client value.
• Investigate priority opportunities with clients and business leaders to understand workflows and pain points.
• Translate opportunities into clear solution concepts, hypotheses, and plans.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to build prototypes and pilots with measurable success.
• Translate validated solutions into scalable products or workflow changes with clear implementation paths.
• Establish ownership for delivery, adoption, and go-to-market with the right teams.
• Build alignment across business, technology, domain, and leadership stakeholders.

Skills

Product management

AI/ML knowledge

Cross-functional leadership

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Job description

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 34,000 people, in over 30 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Role description:

We are expanding our AI Studio with cross-functional teams focused on identifying, validating, and scaling AI-enabled products, services, and workflow transformations that create measurable value for Arcadis and our clients.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will drive the investigation and refinement of emerging opportunities, working with business, technology, and domain experts to understand the underlying client challenge, validate its value, and determine where AI and digital capabilities can make a meaningful difference. You will then facilitate the validation and refinment of opportunities and transalte those into a clear solution direction and actionable plan.

You will create clarity and momentum in a complex corporate environment: structuring the work, aligning stakeholders, guiding multidisciplinary teams, and ensuring ownership for delivery, adoption, and go-to-market sits with the right people. This requires a proactive and resilient individual with practical AI experience, an entrepreneurial mindset, and the ability to turn ambiguity into focused action and measurable outcomes.

Role accountabilities:

• Prioritise the opportunities Arcadis wants to pursue based on their potential to strengthen how we compete, win work, deliver projects, or create new client value
• Investigate and refine priority opportunities with clients, business leaders, and subject matter experts by understanding the underlying challenge, workflows, pain points, users, and value potential
• Facilitate the translation of well-defined opportunities into clear solution concepts, hypotheses, and actionable plans
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams in developing prototypes and pilots, using evidence, user feedback, and success measures to test and refine the proposed solution
• Translate validated solutions into scalable products, services, or workflow changes with a clear path to implementation
• Ensure ownership for delivery, adoption, and go-to-market is established with the right teams and stakeholders
• Build alignment across business, technology, domain, and leadership stakeholders throughout the process

Qualifications & Experience:

Must-have

• Extensive experience in product management for digital or data-enabled products, ideally in B2B or enterprise environments
• Strong understanding of Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Generative AI, with hands-on exposure to AI-enabled product development
• Ability to partner with subject matter experts in deriving high-value solutions
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams and deliver high-impact products from discovery through scale
• Strong strategic and analytical skills, with experience shaping product direction and making evidence-based decisions
• Ability to translate complex technical and domain insights into simple, value-oriented product narratives
• Experience working with AI-enabled products or data-driven solutions, including familiarity with concepts such as model evaluation, data governance, and cloud-based delivery
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Nice to have

• Experience in Arcadis-relevant sectors such as water, energy, transportation, data centers, or life sciences.
• Familiarity with product analytics, experimentation, and value measurement frameworks.
• Experience in a consulting context.
• Experience working with external partners or ecosystems.

Why Arcadis?

We can only achieve our goals when everyone is empowered to be their best. We believe everyone's contribution matters. It’s why we are pioneering a skills-based approach, where you can harness your unique experience and expertise to carve your career path and maximize the impact we can make together.

You’ll do meaningful work, and no matter what role, you’ll be helping to deliver sustainable solutions for a more prosperous planet. Make your mark, on your career, your colleagues, your clients, your life and the world around you.

Together, we can create a lasting legacy.

Join Arcadis. Create a Legacy.

Our Commitment to Equality, Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging

We want you to be able to bring your best self to work every day, which is why we take equality and inclusion seriously and hold ourselves to account for our actions. Our ambition is to be an employer of choice and provide a great place to work for all our people.