Senior AI Product Owner - Commercial Solutions

Nestlé S.A.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 125,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with company match

Healthcare coverage

Job summary

Nestlé Purina is seeking an Expert Product Owner to lead AI-enabled digital initiatives powering sales, marketing, and commercial decision-making. You will bridge commercial stakeholders with delivery teams, shaping strategy, backlog, and governance for measurable value.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration with data scientists, engineers, and governance teams to ensure responsible AI practices and ongoing product improvement across the lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product ownership, product management, or digital transformation.
• 3+ years managing roadmaps, backlogs, prioritization, and stakeholder communications in Agile or hybrid delivery.
• 2+ years partnering with AI engineers, data scientists, data/platform engineers, solution architects, or delivery leads.
• 1+ years applying governance, compliance, privacy, security, risk management, or Responsible AI practices to digital, data, or AI solutions.
• Experience supporting commercial functions is preferred.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

AI product ownership

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Business analysis

Requirements gathering

Governance & privacy

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Data/Analytics, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Nestlé Purina is seeking an Expert Product Owner to lead AI-enabled digital initiatives powering sales, marketing, and commercial decision-making. You will bridge commercial stakeholders with delivery teams, shaping strategy, backlog, and governance for measurable value.

You will drive cross-functional collaboration with data scientists, engineers, and governance teams to ensure responsible AI practices and ongoing product improvement across the lifecycle.