Product Manager, AI & Emerging Technology

compeerfinancial; Bloomington (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid model up to 50% work from home

401k match up to 9%

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

HSA/FSA

Life & AD&D insurance

Short-term and long-term disability

Wellness program

PTO, holidays & parental leave

Learning & development programs

Mentorship programs

Job summary

Compeer Financial in Bloomington, IL, seeks an experienced AI Product Manager to shape the next generation of AI-enabled financial services for farmers and rural communities. You will build a portfolio, identify jobs-to-be-done, design experiments, and balance discovery with delivery.

Collaborating with technology, data, risk, and business teams, you will translate problems into hypotheses, prioritize opportunities, and ensure responsible AI implementation that creates real value for clients and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer science or related field or equivalent experience.
• Expert-level experience leveraging AI-driven products and solutions to address complex business changes and deliver impactful results.
• Advanced-level product management experience.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage a Now / Next / Later portfolio of AI-enabled opportunities grounded in client and business needs.
• Translate problems into hypotheses that can be discovered, tested and validated.
• Collaborate with technology, data, security, risk, and business teams to ensure responsible implementation.

Skills

AI product management

Agile & Lean

Stakeholder alignment

Experimentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in business or computer science

Job description

Empowered to live. Inspired to work.

Compeer Financial is a member-owned cooperative located in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin. We bring together team members with a variety of backgrounds and experiences to help provide financial services to support agriculture and rural communities. Join us in a culture that not only promotes meaningful work and professional development, but provides a flexible, hybrid work environment and excellent benefits, which empower you to thrive both personally and professionally.

How we support you:

• Hybrid model - up to 50% work from home
• Flexible schedules including ample flexibility in the summer months
• Up to 9% towards 401k (3% fixed Compeer contribution plus up to 6% match)
• Benefits: medical, dental, vision, HSA/FSA, life & AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, wellness program & EAP
• Vacation, sick leave, holidays/floating holidays, parental leave, and volunteer paid time off
• Learning and development programs
• Mentorship programs
• Cross-functional committee opportunities (i.e. Inclusion Council, emerging professional groups, etc.)
• Professional membership/certification reimbursement and more!
• Casual/seasonal & intern team members are not eligible for benefits except for state-mandated programs.

To learn more about Compeer Financial visit www.compeer.com/careers.

Where you will work:

This position offers a hybrid work option up to 50% and is open to any Compeer office location in Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

The contributions you will make:

AI is rapidly changing what is possible in financial services and we're interested in more than simply adopting new technology. We want to discover where emerging capabilities such as agentic AI can meaningfully improve the experiences of our clients and team members.

As an AI Product Manager within Compeer's Product Enablement team, you'll help us explore that opportunity. You'll identify meaningful problems and jobs-to-be-done, build and prioritize a portfolio of opportunities, and design small, intentional experiments that help us learn quickly. You'll balance discovery with delivery, advancing promising ideas while helping us recognize quickly when an idea isn't worth pursuing.

This isn't a role where you'll be handed a list of AI features to build. You'll help determine where AI should and shouldn't be used. You'll work across product, technology, data, business, risk and other partners to turn promising ideas into safe, valuable experiences while helping Compeer build the practices needed to use AI responsibly and effectively.

A typical day:

• Build and continuously refine a Now / Next / Later portfolio of AI-enabled opportunities grounded in client and business needs.
• Translate problems and jobs-to-be-done into hypotheses that can be discovered, tested and validated.
• Take small bites to learn, designing experiments that reduce uncertainty before significant investment is made.
• Balance discovery and delivery so we're continuously learning while advancing the opportunities with the strongest evidence.
• Define what success looks like and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to determine whether to advance, adapt or stop an idea.
• Explore appropriate levels of AI autonomy, including where humans should remain in the loop and where additional controls are needed.
• Partner closely with technology, data, security, risk, business teams and other product leaders to evaluate feasibility, value and responsible implementation.
• Turn learning into reusable practices, patterns and guidance that help other teams at Compeer confidently explore AI-enabled opportunities.
• Stay curious about emerging AI capabilities while remaining grounded in a simple question: Does this create meaningful value for our clients or team members?

The skills and experience we prefer you have:

• Bachelor's degree in business or computer science or related field or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job.
• Expert-level experience leveraging AI-driven products and solutions to address complex business changes and deliver impactful, client-focused results.
• Advanced-level product management experience.
• Proven ability to collaborate with senior leadership and key stakeholders to make strategic AI recommendations, present ideas, and drive alignment on opportunities that deliver meaningful business and client value.
• Ability to operate effectively in situations where the answer is not yet clear or defined.
• Approach challenges by focusing on the problem itself before considering specific technologies.
• Skilled at transforming ambiguity into actionable hypotheses, experiments, and insights.
• Strong Agile and Lean product instincts, with a preference for iterative, evidence-based progress over large, speculative initiatives.
• Capable of building and managing an opportunity backlog, focusing on business value rather than a traditional feature backlog.
• Comfortable