Senior AI Product Manager — Shape AI Use Cases & Impact

NielsenIQ; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 78,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Volunteer time off

Job summary

NielsenIQ is seeking a Senior AI Product Manager to partner with Enterprise Productivity tech teams and business stakeholders in Lisbon. You will surface business needs, define problems, elicit requirements, and validate that delivered capabilities address critical business goals.

You will also provide concise status views and ensure evidence-based decisions across streams. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality business analysis, managing requirements across lifecycles, and enabling

Qualifications

• Substantial hands-on experience as a Business Analyst or Senior Business Analyst in a technology-enabled enterprise environment.
• Demonstrated experience eliciting, analyzing, documenting, and validating complex business and system requirements across multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong process analysis, problem definition, use case assessment, requirements management, and acceptance criteria skills.
• Strong workshop facilitation, stakeholder management, negotiation, and written communication skills, including the confidence to challenge ambiguity and escalating unresolved issues.

Responsibilities

• Act as the Senior AI Product Manager partner for assigned EP streams, working directly with Tech Leads, business sponsors, subject matter experts, and users throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Identify operational pain points, user needs, process gaps, improvement opportunities, and use cases that warrant assessment.
• Plan and facilitate interviews, discovery sessions, and workshops that clarify current processes, business rules, constraints, desired outcomes, and affected users.
• Analyze incomplete or conflicting inputs, identify gaps and assumptions, and turn them into a clear problem statement and agreed scope.
• Produce fit-for-purpose analysis artifacts such as process maps, user journeys, functional and nonfunctional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and decision records.
• Trace requirements from the original business need through design, delivery, validation, and release, keeping changes and open questions visible.
• Manage requirement changes and clarify their implications for scope, users, dependencies, controls, and expected outcomes.
• Define the business value, target users, expected outcomes, scope, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and success measures for each use case.
• Challenge unclear requests and solution-led assumptions constructively, helping stakeholders distinguish the underlying need from a preferred implementation.
• Give Tech Leads the business context and stakeholder access needed to assess feasibility, solution options, and delivery implications.
• Coordinate business review of requirements, prototypes, proofs of concept, and delivered capabilities at the appropriate points in the lifecycle.
• Confirm that acceptance criteria and validation evidence address the original problem and agreed outcomes, escalating material gaps or changes.
• Build effective working relationships with business sponsors, users, subject matter experts, Tech Leads, product and delivery partners, and relevant control functions.
• Set clear expectations for stakeholder participation, decisions, approvals, and validation activities.
• Facilitate discussions where needs or requirements conflict, document the outcome, and elevate unresolved decisions with clear options and implications.
• Support adoption and outcome reviews by ensuring affected users understand the change and business sponsors can assess whether the intended need was met.
• Help the EP Owner maintain a concise, current view of each stream, including overall status, key milestones, blockers, risks, dependencies, decisions, and next actions.
• Collect and verify updates with stream owners, focusing leadership attention on material changes and items that need a decision or intervention.

Skills

Business analysis

Requirements management

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Process modeling

User stories

Job description

NielsenIQ is seeking a Senior AI Product Manager to partner with Enterprise Productivity tech teams and business stakeholders in Lisbon. You will surface business needs, define problems, elicit requirements, and validate that delivered capabilities address critical business goals.

You will also provide concise status views and ensure evidence-based decisions across streams. The role emphasizes delivering high-quality business analysis, managing requirements across lifecycles, and enabling