Principal Applied AI Product Manager

About the role

Associated Bank seeks a Principal Applied AI Product Manager to develop AI-enabled products that enhance revenue workflows, banker capacity, operational efficiency, and client adoption in Corporate and Commercial Banking.

Responsibilities

• Own assigned AI-enabled products from discovery through governed release, adoption, and continuous improvement.
• Work directly with bankers and business stakeholders to identify frontline needs and translate them into practical products with defined outcomes, delivery paths, governance requirements, and adoption measures.
• Translate complex business problems into user stories, acceptance criteria, backlog priorities, release scope, success measures, control requirements, and delivery tradeoffs.
• Lead complex assigned products with limited oversight, coordinating priorities, decisions, dependencies, testing, controls, release readiness, and issue resolution across cross-functional partners.
• Define and monitor product usage, quality, business impact, adoption, and risk and control measures, and use the evidence to improve products over time.
• Align business, technology, data, risk, compliance, and operations partners around decisions and tradeoffs, while maintaining accountability for product delivery and governance and helping improve team practices.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Data Science, Computer Science, Analytics, Economics, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 6+ years of product management, digital product delivery, AI, analytics, data products, workflow automation, or related experience.
• 6+ years of experience leading complex products, initiatives, or assigned product programs with limited oversight and measurable business outcomes.
• Advanced understanding of product management, AI-enabled workflow transformation, business process design, governed AI delivery, or data-enabled product delivery.
• 3+ years of experience influencing cross-functional stakeholders and driving adoption in a regulated environment while maintaining accountability for product delivery and governance.
• 6+ years of experience working with users and business stakeholders to define problems, prioritize work, manage delivery tradeoffs, build usable solutions, and drive measurable adoption.

Preferred

• Advanced degree, relevant certifications, or demonstrated experience in AI, analytics, automation, or digital product delivery.
• Familiarity with large language models, AI agents, AWS Bedrock, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Power Platform, Microsoft 365 Copilot, Salesforce, or related technologies.
• Experience leading product adoption, change management, or workflow transformation initiatives.