AI Product Owner – Technical Analyst

Key Responsibilities
- Partner with business stakeholders to gather, clarify, and document requirements for AI-enabled products and agents.
- Translate business needs into clear, actionable functional and technical requirements for engineering and technical teams.
- Support the design, development, and refinement of AI agents, intelligent automation, and workflow-based solutions.
- Collaborate with product leadership to operationalize product strategy and align execution with business priorities.
- Work cross-functionally with engineering, data, design, and business teams to ensure solutions meet user needs and business objectives.
- Develop clear documentation, user stories, process maps, and supporting materials to enable implementation and change management.
- Support backlog refinement, feature definition, acceptance criteria development, and delivery readiness activities.
- Assist with testing, validation, and rollout of AI capabilities to ensure quality, adoption, and business value.
- Monitor stakeholder feedback and usage trends to inform continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 8+ years of experience in product management, business analysis, process design, digital transformation, or related roles.
- Experience as an individual contributor within cross-functional product or technology teams.
- Proven ability to gather business requirements and translate them into detailed functional requirements or user stories.
- Experience supporting development and implementation of AI, automation, digital workflow, or intelligent agent solutions.
- Strong understanding of the product development lifecycle and agile methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience in business process design, workflow mapping, and operational improvement.
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and drive execution in a fast-paced environment.

Technical & Functional Skills
- Product management with AI-enabled products; business requirements gathering and analysis.
- AI agents and intelligent automation.
- Workflow design and process mapping.
- Agile methodologies and Scrum; cross-functional collaboration.
- Stakeholder management; analytical thinking.
- Change management and adoption support.
- Testing, validation, and rollout coordination.

Preferred Qualifications
- Familiarity with Microsoft AI ecosystem (e.g., Azure AI, Copilot, Power Platform).
- Hands-on experience with multiple LLMs and providers (e.g., OpenAI models, Claude), including model selection, orchestration, and enterprise tradeoffs.
- Familiarity with agent-based workflows, conversational AI, or automation platforms.
- Experience in life sciences/biotechnology/healthcare or regulated environments.
- Knowledge of change management practices for technology adoption.
- Experience working with engineering teams from concept through launch.
- Familiarity with product/process tools such as Jira, Confluence, or similar.

Pay/Benefits
- Annual bonus and annual equity awards.

Flex Designation (Hybrid/On-Site)
- Hybrid: work remotely up to two days per week.
- On-Site: work five days per week on-site with ad hoc flexibility.

Application/Contact (for assistance)
- Contact Talent Acquisition at ApplicationAssistance@vrtx.com.