AI/ML Product Manager, Senior Specialist

Aligned to Finance’s divisional AI ambition, the AI Product Owner serves as the product leader for a highly visible, cross-divisional AI portfolio. This role is accountable for shaping and maturing AI products from problem definition through scaled delivery and ensuring solutions deliver measurable business value while meeting governance, risk, and model standards. This role blends product management rigor, AI fluency, and business leadership. The AI Product Owner operates confidently in emerging spaces—bringing structure where it does not yet exist—by defining vision, establishing roadmaps, orchestrating work across federated teams, and guiding stakeholders through ambiguity to outcomes. The role partners closely with business leaders, data, IT, and risk partners to prioritize, deliver, and sustain AI capabilities across the Fund Ecosystem.

Key responsibilities:

Own the AI product vision for the Fund Ecosystem. Partner across Finance, business, and technology teams to define:

• What & why: Business problems, outcomes, and value hypotheses
• How: Solution approach and delivery model
• When: Sequenced roadmap aligned to capacity and risk profiles

Lead AI ideation and use‑case formulation by translating complex business problems into clearly defined, value‑driven AI capabilities with well‑scoped success measures. Orchestrate AI intake and prioritization processes across the Fund Ecosystem. Steward work through divisional and enterprise AI governance forums to ensure alignment with strategy, risk appetite, and model governance expectations. Proactively identify, assess, and manage risk across the AI lifecycle, including model risk, data risk, operational readiness, and change impacts. Work closely with risk and governance partners. Partner with federated delivery teams to define scope, prioritize backlogs, and drive execution. Ensure delivered AI capabilities are adopted, embedded in workflows, and producing sustained business value. Support business adoption through clear value articulation, change planning, and stakeholder engagement to ensure AI solutions are usable, trusted, and durable.

The ideal candidate brings experience:

• Defining and leading AI product strategies and multi‑quarter roadmaps
• Operating effectively across matrixed, cross‑functional organizations
• Driving initiatives from discovery through delivery within risk, model governance, and control frameworks
• Partnering with technical teams while representing business outcomes and user needs
• Navigating ambiguity and building structured operating models in emerging domains

In this role, you will:

• Lead technical product management activities for multiple technical products, or one strategic technical product, with cross-divisional impact. Drive the design and continuous improvement of the technical solution.
• Influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams to create standard processes that drive significant change to the client experience. Ensure business outcomes are linked to business case drivers.
• Coach technical product teams towards standard processes and learnings. Lead all aspects of product teams' support of the messaging, communication, and customer outreach as vital.
• Facilitate strong business support through working with team members to promote a consistent approach to decisions/impacts and client propositions. Drive connection across all appropriate internal and external partners.
• Lead the planning, development and implementation of new technical products with cross-divisional impact. Define and analyze technical markets, developing detailed product features and requirements, and developing implementation plans.
• Influence and employ a variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques to continually improve the user experience.
• Participate in and influences ongoing business planning and departmental prioritization activities.
• Drive the team’s engineering practices in development, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
• Participate in special projects and perform other duties as assigned.

What it takes:

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience required. Graduate degree preferred.
• Minimum of eight years related business experience. Three years of leading large cross-functional teams on major organizational projects preferred.

Special Factors

Sponsorship

Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.

About Vanguard

At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work

Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.