AI Product Owner

AbbVie; Illinois; On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

AbbVie is seeking an experienced Product Manager to define the product vision and roadmap for AI platforms, prioritize features, and balance business value with technical feasibility. You will work with engineering to clarify user stories, acceptance criteria, and ensure user experience is considered in every decision.

The role requires strong leadership, agile execution, and the ability to translate business needs into actionable backlogs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 7+ years in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or related field.
• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst or similar in a technical environment or product management.
• Proven track record of managing the development and launch of successful software products.
• Understanding of Generative AI and traditional AI technologies, with hands‑on experience in AI/ML.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools (Jira, Confluence).

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI platforms. Prioritize features, enhancements, and technical debt based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure understanding of user stories and acceptance criteria. Participate in sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring alignment with objectives. Write clear user stories with acceptance criteria and refine backlog based on feedback.
• Stay updated on AI/ML technologies; evaluate tools/frameworks for AI development; ensure scalability, reliability, and performance of AI solutions.
• Collaborate with business unit clients to understand processes, drivers, and strategies; identify opportunities for process improvement via technology.
• Develop information systems strategy to support multiple business areas; ensure alignment with business strategies and technology directions.
• Develop relationships with other units to ensure successful implementation; broker services, and coordinate portfolio of solutions.
• Keep BTS managers informed of user issues and resolve conflicts; assess regulatory impacts on information use.

Skills

Technical Writing

Agile Scrum

Leadership

Presentation Skills

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

PhD

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft 365

Job description

AbbVie’s mission is to discover and deliver innovative medicines and solutions that solve serious health issues today and address the medical challenges of tomorrow. We strive to have a remarkable impact on people’s lives across several key therapeutic areas – immunology, oncology, neuroscience, and eye care – and products and services in our Allergan Aesthetics portfolio.

Responsibilities

• Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for AI platforms. Prioritize features, enhancements, and technical debt based on business value and technical feasibility.
• Work closely with the development team to ensure understanding of user stories and acceptance criteria. Participate in sprint planning, daily stand‑ups, sprint reviews, and retrospectives. Make decisions on product functionality, balancing business value, technical feasibility, and user experience.
• Define and prioritize the product backlog, ensuring it is aligned with business objectives and customer needs. Write clear, concise user stories with acceptance criteria that guide the development team. Continuously refine and update the backlog based on feedback and changing requirements.
• Stay updated on the latest AI and machine learning technologies, trends, and best practices. Evaluate and select appropriate tools, frameworks, and platforms for AI development. Ensure the scalability, reliability, and performance of AI solutions.
• Work directly with business unit clients to understand specific business processes and business drivers and business strategy across multiple business units; identify and communicate resulting needs and opportunities for business process improvement that can be enabled via technology.
• Investigate and understand capabilities of existing systems and technologies already in use across the business area and similar and interconnected business areas in AbbVie and investigate available technologies applied to this business area in industry; identify information required to support the business strategy and lead the development of appropriate information management strategies, developing them as an integrated part of the business strategy.
• Develop, lead, or review the creation of information systems strategy to support the strategic requirements of multiple business areas. Identify the business benefits of alternative strategies. Ensure compliance between business strategies and technology directions. May prepare testing plans to confirm that requirements and system design are accurate and complete. Conduct training.
• Develop business relationships and integrate activities with other BTOs to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts. Manage relationships between clients involved and BTOs to assure effective communication between the groups is occurring. Broker services within BTS on behalf of customers; coordinate portfolio of solutions, and identify interdependencies.
• Keep BTS managers aware of user issues and resolve conflicts. Identify the impact of any relevant statutory, internal or external regulations on the organization’s use of information.
• Have defined authority and responsibility for a significant area of work, including technical, financial and quality aspects. Establish organizational objectives and delegate assignments. Accountable for actions and decisions taken by self and subordinates.
• Accountable for the accuracy of the fit of the proposed business process improvements and the technical solution to the business needs and the information upon which the business justification and prioritization decisions are made. Also accountable for communicating the business need and drivers to development groups to assure the implementation phase can fulfill the business need.

Tools and Skills

• Technical Writing Skills
• Agile Scrum
• Jira
• Confluence
• Microsoft M365 Suite
• Strong Presentation Skills

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree with 7 years’ experience; Master’s Degree with 6 years’ experience; PhD with 2 years’ experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Data Science, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, or similar role in a technical environment or product management.
• Proven track record of managing the development and launch of successful software products.
• Understanding of Generative AI, and traditional AI technologies, and how to apply them and select for best fit. Including hands‑on experience in AI and machine learning technologies.
• Knowledge of software development best practices.
• Strong technical background with the ability to understand and discuss technical concepts.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and tools (e.g., JIRA, Confluence).
• Excellent organizational and time management skills, with the ability to prioritize tasks effectively.
• Strong leadership and team management abilities, with experience leading cross‑functional teams.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Beneficial Qualifications

• Experience working in the Life Sciences industry and/or GXP validated systems.
• Technical writing experience is a plus.
• Experience working with a consulting background.
• Technical project management.

Benefits

Applicable only to applicants applying to a position in any location with pay disclosure requirements under state or local law:

• The compensation range described below is the range of possible base pay compensation that the Company believes in good faith it will pay for this role at the time of this posting based on the job grade for this position. Individual compensation paid within this range will depend on many factors including geographic location, and we may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off (vacation, holidays, sick), medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
• This job is eligible to participate in our short‑term incentive programs.

Equal Opportunity Employer Statement

AbbVie is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to operating with integrity, driving innovation, transforming lives and serving our community. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.