Expert Product Owner (AI)

Nestlé Purina North America; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Performance-based incentives

Job summary

Nestlé Purina North America is seeking a Senior AI Product Owner to lead the AI product vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with commercial strategy. You will collaborate with AI engineers, data scientists, and business partners to translate problems into measurable AI solutions and manage a data-driven lifecycle.

This role emphasizes governance, privacy, security, and stakeholder communication across the product lifecycle, with a competitive total rewards package and performance-based

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, digital transformation, AI/ML solution delivery, data products, business analysis, or technology delivery.
• 3+ years of experience managing product roadmaps/backlogs and stakeholder communications in Agile or hybrid delivery environments.
• 2+ years of experience partnering with AI engineers, data scientists, data/platform engineers, solution architects, or delivery leads.
• 1+ years of experience applying governance, privacy, security, risk management, or Responsible AI practices to digital/data/AI solutions.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the AI product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog aligned to business outcomes.
• Partner with commercial leaders to deliver AI capabilities that improve decision-making, revenue, and productivity.
• Translate business problems into AI product goals, metrics, user stories, and value hypotheses.
• Prioritize features, epics, and technical enablers balancing value, feasibility, risk, and compliance.
• Lead Business Analysts and guide delivery teams on scope, acceptance criteria, and trade-offs.
• Collaborate with Responsible AI, data governance, architecture, privacy, and security teams across the lifecycle.
• Define AI lifecycle artifacts and establish model performance monitoring and value realization expectations.
• Manage stakeholder communications including roadmap updates and governance status.

Skills

Product ownership

Agile delivery

Stakeholder communication

AI/ML concepts

Data products

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Driven by integrity and united by the people-and-pet bond, we find strong purpose in the work we do and an even greater joy in those we get to work alongside. Together, we harness the expertise of our long-standing tradition of excellence to embrace possibility and continuously push to do what's never been done before in pet care. Discover your purpose and fuel your passions when you bring your love of pets to a team that prides itself on the power of togetherness We are Proudly Connected. Purely Driven.

Position Summary

Digital Transformation is at the center of all that we do. With data-driven innovators passionate about making a difference in the lives of pets, we create cutting-edge digital business models that solve complex problems. You'll be at the forefront of digital advancements as they happen in real time, as well as ensure we remain a leader and innovator in the pet care category. Have a hand in making a lasting impact within our long-standing history.

• Own and communicate the AI product vision, roadmap, and prioritized backlog aligned to commercial strategy, capacity, dependencies, and business outcomes
• Partner with commercial business leaders to identify, prioritize, and deliver AI capabilities that improve decision-making, customer engagement, revenue growth, and productivity
• Translate business problems into clear AI product goals, success metrics, decision outcomes, user stories, and measurable value hypotheses
• Prioritize and sequence features, epics, enhancements, and technical enablers, balancing value, feasibility, risk, compliance, scalability, and sustainment needs
• Lead Business Analysts in capturing requirements and testing criteria, and guide delivery teams by clarifying scope, validating acceptance criteria, and managing trade-offs
• Partner with Responsible AI, data governance, architecture, privacy, and security teams to embed stage-gated Responsible AI and data standards across the product lifecycle
• Define and maintain AI lifecycle artifacts and establish product monitoring expectations across model performance, observability, and value realization
• Manage stakeholder communications including roadmap updates, milestones, delivery risks, governance status, adoption readiness, and sustainment handoffs

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in product ownership, product management, digital transformation, AI/ML solution delivery, data products, business analysis, or technology delivery
• 3+ years of experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, and stakeholder communications in an Agile or hybrid delivery environment
• 2+ years of experience partnering with technical teams such as AI engineers, data scientists, data/platform engineers, solution architects, or delivery leads
• 1+ years of experience applying governance, compliance, privacy, security, risk management, or Responsible AI practices to digital, data, or AI solutions

Other

• Experience supporting commercial functions such as Sales, Marketing, Customer Development, Consumer Insights, Revenue Management, Category Management, Customer Service, or eCommerce is preferred
• Working knowledge of modern AI, AIOps, observability, model performance monitoring, evaluation, and lifecycle management concepts is preferred
• Ability to translate business problems into AI use cases, success metrics, and technical requirements is preferred

Don’t meet all the qualifications listed under “other”? These are preferred, but not required. When you apply for a role with Nestlé Purina, we ensure that individual confidentiality is held to the highest regard. We are intentional about creating an inclusive workplace for everyone. We consider our associates our most valuable assets.

Salary: $125,000.00 to $175,000.00 per year

Bonus Eligibility: Yes

The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range.

Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

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