Director, Applied AI Product Manager
On-siteDublin, Leinster, Ireland
Job Summary
Lead the Dublin Innovation Studio's applied AI product capability, defining high-value opportunities across AI, intelligent automation, and frontier technology. Translate ambiguous client and business needs into structured problem statements, MVP scopes, and execution plans while managing proof-of-concept development and responsible AI considerations. Collaborate with engineering, risk, compliance, and global innovation teams to deliver decision-ready artifacts and connect Ireland-led initiatives to BNY's broader EMEA and APAC strategy. Establish the team's product culture, mentor colleagues, and ensure all activities align with strategic priorities and measurable outcomes in a highly regulated financial services environment.
Required Qualifications
- Significant experience in applied AI product management, digital product management, enterprise product development, innovation, R&D, AI-enabled transformation, or technology-led business change
- Strong understanding of generative AI, LLM-enabled systems, intelligent automation, agentic workflows, decision-support tools, and AI-enabled product capabilities
- Experience translating ambiguous business, client, or technology opportunities into product strategies, requirements, roadmaps, prototypes, POCs, or delivery plans
- Ability to work with AI teams, engineering, data science, design, business, risk, compliance, platform, and client-facing teams to shape practical solutions
- Strong understanding of enterprise technology concepts such as APIs, workflows, data flows, permissions, integration layers, observability, evaluation, and production-readiness
- Experience operating in complex, regulated, or highly governed environments
- Strong stakeholder management, executive communication, prioritization, and delivery leadership skills
- Ability to define and measure successful outcomes, not just deliver outputs
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure without waiting for perfect framing
- Curious, self-directed, and able to learn new domains quickly
- Excited by frontier technology but grounded in practical product value and responsible delivery
- Low ego and team-first, with a willingness to build on others' ideas and let go of their own when evidence changes
- Confident giving and receiving constructive feedback across levels
- Resilient under pace, feedback, uncertainty, and changing priorities
- Strong communicators who can explain decisions, trade-offs, risks, and emerging technologies clearly
- Evidence-led rather than opinion-led
- Risk-aware without being risk-averse
- Excited by continuous learning and willing to help others develop
- Comfortable operating across product, design, AI, data, engineering, risk, client engagement, commercial strategy, and business transformation
- Able to work independently in Dublin while staying closely connected to International Innovation teams across EMEA and APAC
Desired Qualifications
- Experience building or scaling AI-enabled products, internal platforms, workflow tools, agents, R&D prototypes, or automation capabilities
- Experience with AI product evaluation, model performance, responsible AI, prompt design, RAG, knowledge graphs, agent orchestration, or experimentation methods
- Exposure to frontier or emerging technology areas such as Quantum Computing, advanced analytics, AI agents, data products, or enterprise automation
- Experience in financial services, asset servicing, funds, capital markets, banking, payments, operations, risk, compliance, or data-heavy enterprise environments
- Experience working with FinTech's, start-ups, universities, accelerators, innovation labs, venture teams, or ecosystem partnerships
- Experience in client-facing innovation, product ventures, co-creation, value engineering, or commercial product discovery
- Product certifications, agile certifications, AI specializations, or advanced degrees
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