Director, Product Manager

Director, Ai Product Manager

The Director, AI Product Manager is responsible for driving the end-to-end development and delivery of AI products—specifically AI models and agents—from ideation through launch and ongoing optimization. This role translates business needs into actionable technical requirements, leads product discovery and validation efforts, and defines success metrics to evaluate product impact. Unlike Product Managers within the Digital Product Management organization, this role treats AI itself as the product—owning firmwide, reusable, and scalable AI models and agents that power multiple downstream experiences rather than discrete applications. This role centers on strategy, discovery, and value framing, working closely with each Business and Functional area to shape AI direction, identify high-value opportunities, and expand the art of the possible for how AI can transform their domain.

What you'll do:

• Translate business needs into clear and actionable technical requirements for AI Products models and agents - reusable AI capabilities.
• Lead product discovery, validation, and iterative improvement processes with a focus on how AI models and agents will be embedded across many applications, tools, and internal teams.
• Define and track product success metrics specific to AI model and agent performance, reusability, adoption, and ongoing monitoring.
• Conduct research and engage internal customers to inform AI product capabilities.
• Ensure responsible AI practices and compliance with regulatory requirements throughout the product lifecycle.
• Drive the development and delivery of AI models, ensuring that capabilities are not one-off builds, but reusable, model driven products deployed across the organization.
• Collaborate with colleagues in EJ Labs, Engineering, Data, Product Management, Experience, and the respective Business and Functional areas teams to test, deploy, and refine new AI model and agent capabilities and ensure alignment with enterprise AI standards.
• Communicate product progress, updates, and outcomes to stakeholders across the organization.
• Conduct market and user research to understand demand for reusable AI capabilities and anticipate model and agent centric enhancements.
• Monitor and evaluate AI model and agent performance, implementing refinements as needed as part of ongoing product lifecycle management and governance.
• Actively shape the definition and evolution of product AI capability vision and strategy in partnership with business and technology stakeholders to drive measurable business impact and outcome-oriented delivery.
• Translate business goals, user insights, market trends, and product model and agent knowledge into product AI roadmaps, themes, initiatives, epics, and user stories—informing prioritization and hypothesis generation in collaboration with partners.
• Support product delivery, adoption, and business impact through influence and collaboration, reinforcing outcome ownership while navigating shared accountability.
• Collaborate with product leadership, delivery partners, and enabling teams to support resource coordination, delivery execution, and risk management across delivery teams.
• Partner closely with the Product Management organization, who serve as consumers of EJ Labs' AI models and agents, to align reusable model capabilities to downstream product needs.
• Deploy and test new AI model and agent capabilities, ensuring reliability, explainability, and functional integration with a broad set of consuming systems and applications.
• Own the lifecycle of AI models and agents—including versioning, performance monitoring, retraining plan development, and continuous improvement.
• Ensure EJ Labs' AI models and agents can be embedded into low code agents, mini applications, applets, and other internal tooling used across the firm.

Minimum Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, product management or related field.
• 7-10+ years' experience in product management includes translating business needs into technical requirements and leading product discovery and validation.
• 3+ years' experience in AI/ML.
• Strong understanding of AI technologies and financial services.
• Product operating model methodologies, including AI driven PDLC.
• AI technologies and their applications in business contexts.
• Metrics and frameworks for tracking product AI model and agent success and impact.
• Responsible AI practices and regulatory compliance requirements.
• User experience (UX) principles and their integration into product AI capability design.

Preferred Knowledge:

• Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence, Product Management, or a related field.
• 5+ years' experience in AI product management, with a focus on responsible AI practices and regulatory compliance in a financial services context.
• Financial services industry practices and regulations.
• Emerging trends in AI product model and agent development and management.
• Data governance and integrity management.
• Risk management and compliance in AI product AI model and agent development.
• Advanced data visualization techniques for product insights.

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Edward Jones' compensation and benefits package includes medical and prescription drug, dental, vision, voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness), short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage. Short- and long-term disability, basic life, and basic AD&D coverage are provided at no cost to associates. Edward Jones offers a 401k retirement plan, and tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account. Edward Jones observes ten paid holidays and provides 15 days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year, as well as sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism. Associates may be eligible for bonuses and profit sharing. All associates are eligible for the firm's Employee Assistance Program. For more information on the Benefits available to Edward Jones associates, please visit our benefits page . Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance and the California Fair Chance Act. Edward Jones is prohibited from hiring individuals with certain specified criminal history as set forth in Section 3(a)(39) and 15(b)(4) and Rule 17a-3(a)(12) of the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and conducts background reviews consistent with FINRA Rule 3110(e). A copy of a notice regarding the provisions of the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance is available at: dcba.lacounty.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/FCOE-Official-Notice-Eng-Final-8.30.2024.pdf.