Product Owner

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Job Title: AI Product Owner

Reports To: Head of Data Science / AI

Key Relationships: CDO teams, Product team, Change Programmes & Strategic Projects, Product Owners, Product Managers, Value Stream Leads, IT and Data Management, Business Stakeholders, Outsourced teams

Job Summary

Beazley’s data reflects the complexity of our business. We are committed to building a modern data culture that ensures data is reusable and integrated into our business products and services effectively.

In this role you will be responsible for defining, prioritizing, and delivering AI-driven solutions that create strategic business value. This role focuses on leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and generative AI to enhance decision-making, improve customer experiences, and optimize operational efficiency.

This role focuses on enabling the business to leverage AI to reimagine business processes and outcomes, and embedding new ways of working, insights, behaviours, and operational efficiency, while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

Your will own the vision and roadmap for AI products and foundational capabilities, ensuring alignment with business objectives, regulatory requirements, and ethical AI principles. You will work closely with Data Scientists, Engineers, Product Managers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable solutions that are trusted, explainable, and impactful.

The role requires close collaboration with the AI team, business stakeholders, data / change leadership and outsourced partners to drive innovation, and support decision-making through advanced analytics and AI.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

AI Product Vision & Strategy

• Define and communicate the vision, goals, and roadmap for AI products.
• Align AI initiatives with business strategy and regulatory compliance.
• Work with Head of AI to establish AI CoE and drive platform / product capability in collaboration with federated analytics teams in Finance, Underwriting, Actuarial and Claims.
• Own and prioritize the AI product backlog, balancing short-term delivery with long-term strategic goals.
• Translate business problems into AI use cases with clear actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Ensure delivery practices (Agile/Scrum/Kanban), NFRs (performance, governance, resilience, privacy-by-design), and control frameworks (quality, metadata, lineage) are embedded.
  
  

Value Realisation

• Drive delivery of AI products through agile ceremonies (sprint planning, reviews, retrospectives).
• Monitor KPIs and value metrics to ensure AI products deliver measurable outcomes (e.g., loss ratio improvement, leakage reduction, NB premium, campaign ROI uplift, cycle-time reduction).

Work closely with Data Scientists, ML Engineers, and MLOps teams to ensure technical feasibility and scalability.

Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and AI team.

Educate stakeholders on AI capabilities, limitations, and ethical considerations.

Gather requirements, validate assumptions, and ensure stakeholder alignment.

Foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation within your stakeholders.

General

At Beazley we are committed to doing the right thing. It is important that within all your interactions both internally and externally you adhere to this principle through adoption of Beazley’s core values and behaviours.

• Adopt the Beazley culture of being bold, striving for better and do the right thing. This contributes to an internal environment of teamwork and promotes a positive brand image and experience to all our external customers.
• Comply with Beazley procedures, policies and regulations including the code of conduct which incorporates the PRA and FCA Conduct Rules. Undertake training on Beazley policies and procedures as delivered by your line manager, Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) either directly, via e-learning or the learning management system.

Display business ethics that uphold the interests of all our customers.

Ensure all interactions with customers are focused on delivering a fair outcome, including having the right products for their needs.

Comply with any specific responsibilities necessary for your role as outlined by your line manager, Talent Management or assurance teams (compliance, risk, internal audit) and ensure you keep up to date with developments in these areas. This may include, amongst others, Beazley’s underwriting control standards, Beazley’s claims control standards, other Beazley standards and customer relationship management.

Carry out additional responsibilities as individually notified, either through your objectives or through the learning management system. These may include membership of any Beazley committees or working groups.

Personal Specification

We’re looking for candidates who are passionate about driving data products that will help Beazley innovate and unlock best-in-class approaches to Data and AI. Candidate should have a proven track record of delivering AI products and leading squads that enhance value delivery across a business. We are looking for someone who can lead and cultivate high performance AI delivery, and knows how to encourage performance, motivate peers to reimagine the art of the possible, and collaborate at all levels of an organisation.

The successful candidate should have a passion for data and a curious mindset both for Beazley and the wider insurance industry. Great communication skills across all levels of seniority and the ability to represent data internally and externally to our colleagues, and clients will also be important.

Essential Criteria

Smart working policy and flexible working culture, trusting our employees to do what works best for them, their role and the needs of the business

We are an equal opportunities employer and as such, we will make reasonable adjustments to our selection process for candidates that indicate that, owing to disability, our arrangements might otherwise disadvantage them. If you have a disability, including dyslexia or other non-visible ones, which you believe may affect your performance in selection, please advise us in good time and we’ll make reasonable adjustments to our processes for you.

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