Senior AI Product Owner

International Motors, LLC•Lisle, IL

7d•$126,400 - $189,600

About The Position

International is transforming from a supplier of trucks, buses, and engines into a provider of complete and sustainable transport solutions, investing in digital capabilities, data products, and AI-enabled tools. MyInternational Dealer supports dealers and service teams with smarter, more proactive, and more efficient workflows. The AI Product Owner – MyInternational Dealer supports the broader AI product roadmap by owning backlog and delivery priorities for assigned AI use cases that improve service workflows, recommendations, and decision support across the MyInternational Dealer ecosystem. The role works within a cross-functional agile team in the Dealer Digitalization organization and collaborates with engineers, UX, data scientists, and business stakeholders to clarify needs and translate them into practical, production-ready capabilities. This is a hands-on product delivery role with no direct reports. The Product Owner independently manages assigned initiatives, defines requirements and acceptance criteria, maintains backlog readiness, and contributes directly to building the product. The role calls for strong ownership, curiosity, and a willingness to learn quickly while developing experience with AI products and the MyInternational Dealer ecosystem.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree and at least 5 years of technical project/program management experience, plus at least 1 year of lead experience; OR a master's degree and at least 3 years of technical project/program management experience, plus at least 1 year of lead experience; OR at least 8 years of technical project/program management experience, plus at least 1 year of lead experience.
For candidates other than current employees, legal authorization to work in the United States on an unrestricted basis as a U.S. citizen, legal permanent resident, refugee, or asylee. The employer does not anticipate providing employment-related work sponsorship for this position.
Ability to independently manage assigned product initiatives, including backlog ownership, prioritization, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature acceptance.
Experience building and delivering data-driven, automation, analytics, or AI-enabled capabilities, focused on practical adoption and measurable business value.
Strong product thinking and day-to-day decision-making, including judgment to escalate broader priorities, trade-offs, and risks to senior product leadership.
Ability to understand user workflows and pain points and translate them into intuitive, effective product requirements and experiences.
Experience collaborating with UX, engineering, architecture, data science, and business stakeholders to deliver integrated solutions.
Working knowledge of AI/ML concepts, data dependencies, model limitations, and practical considerations for deploying AI into business workflows; hands-on experience is required.
Comfort with modern product practices, including MVP definition, experimentation, metrics, feedback loops, iterative delivery, and adoption tracking.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clarify needs, document decisions, surface trade-offs, and maintain alignment.
A proactive, curious, and solution-oriented mindset, with willingness to learn the MyInternational Dealer ecosystem and grow experience with AI products.

Nice To Haves

Experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, Business Product Owner, Business Analyst, or in a similar role delivering digital products in complex, workflow-driven environments.
Familiarity with Palantir Foundry or a similar data and AI platform; deep hands-on engineering expertise is not required.

Responsibilities

Own and maintain the backlog for assigned AI use cases within the MyInternational Dealer ecosystem, supporting the broader AI product roadmap.
Make day-to-day product decisions for assigned initiatives, including requirements, feature priorities, user stories, acceptance criteria, and feature acceptance.
Align larger priorities, dependencies, and trade-offs with senior product leadership and the broader product team.
Understand dealer workflows, service processes, and operational pain points to identify and prioritize practical AI opportunities.
Partner with users, product owners, UX, engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to clarify needs and turn them into execution-ready work.
Define how AI insights, recommendations, and workflow guidance should be surfaced, explained, and acted upon within dealer workflows, contributing hands-on during the building phase.
Maintain clear requirements, prioritized stories, dependencies, and acceptance criteria so assigned work is ready for delivery.
Drive assigned capabilities from discovery through pilot and production, including MVP definition, feedback collection, adoption tracking, and continuous iteration.
Track product adoption, user feedback, and business impact, sharing accountability for outcomes with the broader cross-functional team.
Prioritize work based on business impact, user value, feasibility, risk, and speed to learning.
Contribute to technical and data discussions, including integrations, data dependencies, data quality, transparency, guardrails, and human-in-the-loop design, while engineering and architecture leaders own technical direction.
Clarify requirements, make timely trade-offs within assigned scope, and help remove delivery blockers across stakeholders.
Contribute to a team culture that values curiosity, collaboration, pragmatism, accountability, and continuous learning.