Lead AI Product Owner

Responsibilities

• Serve as product owner for enterprise AI tools, products, and services, managing the product backlog, prioritization, and release cadence.
• Curate, evolve, and maintain a governed catalog of approved enterprise AI tools and capabilities.
• Design, implement, and manage structured intake processes for evaluating new AI tools, vendor offerings, and platform capabilities.
• Partner with AI, Automation, Infrastructure, Security, and Governance teams to ensure tools align with enterprise architecture, security, privacy, and responsible AI standards.
• Coordinate onboarding of AI tools, including licensing models, access controls, role‑based provisioning, and operational readiness.
• Ensure appropriate telemetry, monitoring, and reporting mechanisms are in place to track usage, reliability, and performance.
• Maintain documentation, lifecycle management processes, and operational runbooks for AI products and services.
• Collaborate closely with business units to understand needs and translate them into product enhancements and roadmap priorities.
• Align AI tool launches with training, communications, and change‑management plans to drive responsible adoption.
• Define, track, and report on KPIs such as adoption rates, utilization, user satisfaction, productivity impact, and value realization.
• Produce regular executive‑level reporting on AI product performance, risks, and opportunities for improvement.

Skills

• Agile methodology
• Product management
• AI product management

Qualifications

• Enterprise marketplaces or internal platforms
• Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools
• AI governance or responsible AI exposure
• Platform analytics and usage reporting

Pay

The pay range for this position is $75.00 - $87.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Benefits

• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location: Contract to Hire based out of Madison, WI. Workplace Type: Fully remote. Application Deadline: Anticipated to close on Sep 25, 2026.