AI Product Owner

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 96,000 - 109,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, vision, and dental insurance (

Job summary

The Matlen Silver Group, Inc. is seeking an AI Product Owner to lead the development of an AI platform for a financial services environment. Location includes Jersey City and New York City with an 18-month W2 contract.

The role requires hands-on AI product experience and the ability to translate business needs into AI product requirements for engineering teams. Responsibilities include coordinating tenant adoption, planning use-case releases, and effectively communicating platform capabilities

Qualifications

• Hands-on AI product experience
• Experience designing, implementing, or deploying custom AI solutions
• Ability to discuss AI systems, RAG, agentic workflows, AI architectures, and how AI solutions solve business problems
• Credibility with highly technical AI engineers

Responsibilities

• Tenant Adoption & Orchestra Launch Readiness: coordinate adoption of new platform capabilities and updates.
• Use Case Release Planning & Readiness: maintain use case release pipeline and progress visibility.
• Tenant & Partner Communications: own recurring communications and deliver trainings.
• Reporting & Insights: track adoption, milestones, and provide executive-ready updates.

Skills

AI product ownership

RAG knowledge

Agentic workflows

AI governance

Requirements gathering

Technical translation

Stakeholder engagement

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Job Title:AI Product Owner

Duration: 18 Month W2 Contract

Location: Jersey City | New York City

Required Pay Scale: $70-$79/hour

Product Owners with AI Custom Solutions experience

• Building an ai platform for the bank, that will basically be a GPT style repository of all info – market data, client data, financial data, etc.
• All teams will have access to it and be able to search across the entire organization for information rather than asking other teams, doing manual research etc

Team Overview

• Team focuses on:
  • User onboarding
  • Client engagement
  • Internal stakeholder engagement
  • Building AI use cases and solutions
• Work includes:
  • AI toll gates
  • RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) for data ingestion
  • Agentic workflows
  • AI governance, security, and framework-related initiatives

• Hands-on AI Product Experience
• Must have experience designing, implementing, or deploying custom AI solutions.
• Strong product ownership alone is not enough.
• Strong Understanding of AI Technologies

• Must be able to discuss AI systems, RAG, agentic workflows, AI architectures, and how AI solutions solve business problems.
• Needs credibility with highly technical AI engineers.
• Requirements Gathering + Technical Translation

• Able to work with users, gather business requirements, and translate them into AI product requirements for development teams.

Top 3 Nice-to-Haves

• Agentic AI Experience
  • Building or delivering agent-based AI solutions.
• AI Governance / Security / Toll Gates
  • Experience with AI controls, governance frameworks, security reviews, or AI compliance processes.
• Prior Software Development Background
  • Not required, but former developers appear to perform well and get hired more frequently.

Responsibilities

• Tenant Adoption & Orchestra Launch Readiness
  • Coordinate tenant adoption of new platform capabilities, model lifecycle changes, and other tenant-impacting updates.
  • Assess tenant impact and adoption requirements to support successful deployment.
  • Identify deployment gaps, mitigate risks, and drive resolution / escalation as needed.
• Use Case Release Planning & Readiness
  • Maintain and communicate Orchestra AI use case release pipeline.
  • Provide visibility into use case release progress, readiness checkpoints, and upcoming partner activities.
  • Identify risks, issues, and dependencies across functional and control partners that may impact the release roadmap.
• Tenant & Partner Communications
  • Own recurring communications across Orchestra teams, tenants, and partner organizations.
  • Communicate platform capabilities, deployment milestones, and adoption opportunities.
  • Deliver training, workshops, and enablement activities to accelerate tenant adoption.
• Reporting & Insights
  • Track platform adoption, onboarding progress, deployment milestones, and usage trends.
  • Develop reporting and insights to support prioritization, planning, and management decisions.
  • Prepare executive-ready updates on progress, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.

Required Skillset

• Program Execution: Manage cross-functional initiatives from planning through deployment.
• Adoption & Release Readiness: Assess tenant impacts and support successful adoption of new capabilities.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Identify and resolve risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Partner Coordination: Drive alignment across platform, support, and control functions.
• Communication & Enablement: Develop communications, training, and adoption materials.
• Reporting & Insights: Track metrics and deliver actionable management reporting.
• GenAI Familiarity: Understanding of enterprise platforms and GenAI ecosystems.

About Matlen Silver

Experience Matters. Let your experience be driven by our experience. For more than 40 years, Matlen Silver has delivered solutions for complex talent and technology needs to Fortune 500 companies and industry leaders. Led by hard work, honesty, and a trusted team of experts, we can say that Matlen Silver technology has created a solutions experience and legacy of success that is the difference in the way the world works.

Matlen Silver is an Equal Opportunity Employer and considers all applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, the presence of a non-job-related medical condition or disability, or any other legally protected status.

If you are a person with a disability needing assistance with the application or at any point in the hiring process, please contact us at email and/or phone at: [e-mail] // 908-393-8600

At The Matlen Silver Group, Inc., W2 employees are eligible for the following benefits:

• Health, vision, and dental insurance (single and family coverage)
• 401(k) plan (employee contributions only)