Group Product Manager AI

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Role Overview

EIU is the business intelligence arm of The Economist Group, a leading authority on international business and world affairs. Upholding our brand's reputation for uncompromising integrity, rigorous analysis, and trusted insights, EIU provides a forward-looking perspective on the global agenda to identify opportunities, trends, and risks at global and national levels.

We are seeking a talented and experienced Group Product Manager (GPM) to lead the development of AI-driven products and enhancements within our B2B information business. With a focus on forecast data, risk analysis, and geopolitical and macroeconomic modeling, this role will play a key part in integrating machine learning into our technology stack and charting an ambitious roadmap for how AI, including generative AI can deliver meaningful features and benefits for our users, both internal and external.

This is a highly collaborative role where you will work closely with analysts, economists, engineering teams in a matrix structure, and diverse cross-functional stakeholders to deliver innovative solutions that address both client and business needs.

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Responsibilities:

AI Product Development:

• Lead the creation of new AI products and integrate AI-driven enhancements into existing offerings.
• Develop and execute a forward-looking product roadmap that balances suitable ML-driven improvements with AI and GenAI opportunities driven by use-cases

Stakeholder Collaboration:

• Work with cross-functional teams, including research and analytics, data and content, engineering, data science, marketing, sales, and operations, to align product initiatives with business priorities.
• Build consensus and manage priorities across internal groups, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

AI Advocacy:

• Champion AI adoption across the organisation, educating stakeholders about its potential and fostering a culture of innovation.
• Keep up-to-date with industry trends and developments in ML and GenAI to bring cutting-edge insights and opportunities to the business.

Execution and Delivery:

• Collaborate with engineering resources in a matrix structure to deliver on the product vision with autonomy and accountability.
• Define clear KPIs to measure the success and impact of AI initiatives.

Client-Centric Innovation:

• Leverage knowledge of the B2B information space to identify opportunities where AI can address client challenges or create new value propositions.
• Ensure all AI solutions prioritize usability, ethical considerations, and measurable impact.

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Skills:

Experience and Expertise:

• Proven experience in product management, particularly with data products, machine learning (ML), AI or generative AI (GenAI).
• Strong understanding of productionising large language models (LLMs) based applications.
• Track record of delivering ML/gen AI-driven solutions in content and data-rich environments.

Technical Acumen:

• Comfortable working closely with engineering teams and data scientists, with a solid grasp of AI/ML technologies and workflows.
• Experience modernizing legacy technology stacks to incorporate AI, ML capabilities.

Leadership and Collaboration:

• Strong ability to lead with influence in a matrix organization.
• Proven success in managing cross-functional, local, near and off-shore  teams and balancing competing priorities.
• Self-starter with a curious mindset and proactive approach to problem-solving.

Strategic Thinking:

• Experience in the B2B information space, with a strong ability to identify opportunities for AI to address client and business needs.
• Visionary mindset to create and execute a long-term roadmap aligned with business goals.

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What we offer

Benefits
We offer excellent benefits including an incentive programme, generous annual and parental leave policies, volunteering days and well-being support throughout the year, as well as free access to all Economist content. Country specific benefits are also offered.

Our Values
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Independence
We are not bound to any party or interest and encourage exploration and free-thinking. We champion freedom, both within our organisation and around the world.

Integrity
We are bold in our efforts to uncover the truth and stand up for what we believe in. We inspire trust through our rigour, fact-checking and transparency.

Excellence
We aspire to the highest standards in all we do. We are ambitious and inquisitive in our pursuit of continuous progress and innovation.

Inclusivity
We value diversity in thought and background and encourage healthy debate with a breadth of perspectives. We treat our colleagues and customers fairly and respectfully.

Openness
We foster a collaborative and empathetic culture conducive to the interests, wit and initiative of our colleagues. New ideas are our lifeblood.

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