Senior Manager – AI Security Product Owner

About
The Senior Manager – AI Security Product Owner is a senior delivery position within the company consultancy, embedded directly within a major banking client. This role functions as the strategic owner of the AI security product lifecycle, defining the roadmap, feature requirements, and delivery schedules for tools and frameworks designed to protect the bank’s AI/ML ecosystem. Serving as the primary interface between technical security squads and business units, this position requires a balance of Agile product management expertise, technical AI security knowledge, and the professional diplomacy necessary to align senior stakeholders within a Tier 1 financial institution.

Your Responsibilities

• Defining, maintaining, and executing the long-term vision and product roadmap for the bank's AI security tools, platforms, and capabilities.
• Translating complex AI security requirements into functional user stories, maintaining a prioritized product backlog that balances technical debt with business utility.
• Leading cross-functional engineering and data science squads through Agile sprints, ensuring clear definition of done and timely delivery of features.
• Coordinating closely with senior business leaders, risk officers, and technical engineering leads to ensure product features meet commercial objectives and security requirements.
• Driving the internal onboarding and adoption of AI security products across the bank's broader development, data science, and security teams.
• Representing the company on the ground by modelling exceptional delivery standards, technical integrity, and proactive problem-solving for the client.

Coaching and Management
Coaching

• Growing future leaders through mentorship and feedback.
• Empowering your teams to think independently and learn continuously.
• Fostering a culture of curiosity, reflection, and resilience.

Management

• Aligning strategy with execution and ensuring delivery excellence.
• Setting clear goals and objectives, driving accountability, and supporting performance.
• Leading with transparency, integrity, and trust.

Requirements
For this role, we need you to have:

• A minimum of 6 years in technical product management or delivery lead roles, with a focus on cybersecurity, data platforms, or AI/ML tools.
• Practical experience operating within a regulated banking environment, ensuring product delivery complies with institutional risk and security standards.
• Prior experience in a client-facing professional services or consultancy capacity, managing project delivery and client expectations.
• Documented experience working directly alongside security engineers, data scientists, and enterprise architects to ship software.
• Proven capability to manage software or platform products through the full lifecycle from conception to operational hand-off.
• Foundational understanding of the tools and methodologies used to secure AI pipelines, large language models (LLMs), and cloud data environments.
• Be a master of Agile, Scrum, or Kanban methodologies, including experience with enterprise planning tools (e.g., Jira, Azure DevOps).
• The ability to manage conflicting priorities from senior stakeholders, transforming ambiguous requests into clear technical deliverables.
• Capacity to articulate the technical and business value of security initiatives to both engineering teams and non-technical business leaders.

Preferred Qualifications
It would also be great if you have:

• Agile/Scrum certifications (e.g., CSPO, PMI-ACP, SAFe POPM) or relevant security/cloud credentials.
• A conceptual understanding of MLOps pipelines, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure).
• Understanding of modern security principles like Zero Trust and defense-in-depth as they apply to data and model architectures.

Benefits
The benefits you'll enjoy as part of this role include:

• Competitive salary
• Comprehensive personal health insurance
• Visa Sponsorship for the successful individual
• Professional development and certification support
• Subscription reimbursement relating to your role
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI projects
• Monthly Employee Incentive program
• Career advancement opportunities in a rapidly growing AI company

This position offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI implementation while working with a talented team of professionals at the forefront of technological innovation. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in driving the company's success in delivering transformative AI solutions to our clients.

At the company, we recognise that diversity drives innovation. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment where individuals with different thinking styles can thrive and contribute their unique strengths to our specialised AI and data solutions.