Technical Product Owner (Data & AI Products)

?? Technical Product Owner – Data & AI Products Location: Manchester or Leeds Hybrid - x2 a week Help build the AI backbone of the automotive industry. ?? About Cox Automotive UK Cox Automotive is the world’s largest automotive services organisation — powering the full vehicle lifecycle with data, technology, and insight. Our mission? Transform how the automotive industry buys, sells, and manages vehicles. Our Data Products team plays a central role in that transformation — building scalable data platforms and AI-powered products that turn our vast data ecosystem into real-world outcomes for OEMs across the industry. If you want to work on impactful data products at scale, this is where it happens. ?? The Role: Technical Product Owner – Data & AI Products This is not a typical TPO role. This is a hands-on, technically fluent position sitting right at the intersection of: Data engineering Data science ML model lifecycle Product delivery You’ll own the delivery backlog across our data and AI product layer — ensuring that data pipelines, ML models, and data products are built to production standard, observed from day one, and reusable across multiple OEM clients. You’re the person who makes sure the big questions get answered — not tomorrow, not later. You own them. ?? What You’ll Do Own the Backlog & Drive Delivery Shape and run the backlog across data engineering, data science, and data product workstreams. Write clear, technically accurate user stories with strong acceptance criteria. Ensure sprint outputs are high-quality, production-ready, and measurable. Lead the ML Model Lifecycle Own the MDLC from development → evaluation → deployment → monitoring → retraining. Ensure every model ships with robust model cards and API contracts. Decide when rule-based approaches beat ML — and when to sca Salary: Competitive Salary, Bonus & Benefits