Product Owner for AI Excellence

Build a career where your work is valued and makes a difference. At Raiffeisen Bank, you’ll have the chance to take responsibility early on and experience growth that goes way beyond organizational charts and ladders. Your expertise helps us stay focused on what matters most – delivering value to our customers across markets. Join us if you’re ready to push boundaries and shape the next generation of financial solutions.

We are seeking a Product Owner for AI Excellence who will drive the identification, development, and scaling of AI use cases across the organization, ensuring our internal and external customers enjoy seamless and delightful banking experiences. In this role, you will be responsible not only for managing delivery, but also for discovering opportunities where AI can create business value, shaping AI initiatives, and ensuring their successful implementation. The future Product Owner will play a key role in accelerating AI adoption, building the use case backlog, and contributing to the transformation towards a more data- and AI-driven organization.

What you can expect:

• Develop deep understanding of business processes, market trends, and AI opportunities
• Identify and validate AI use cases across business units
• Participate in defining AI strategy, vision, and roadmap
• Propose new initiatives to drive AI adoption and value creation
• Collaborate with stakeholders to prioritize initiatives based on business impact and feasibility
• End-to-end ownership of AI use case lifecycle (idea → pilot → production → scale)
• Manage backlog of AI initiatives (prioritization, refinement, alignment with strategy)
• Define product requirements (epics, user stories, use cases)
• Guide agile teams and ensure clear vision and understanding
• Work closely with data scientists, AI engineers, data architects, and external partners
• Regularly communicate progress, risks, and outcomes to management
• Ensure alignment of AI initiatives with internal policies, governance, and regulatory requirements
• Track performance, adoption, and impact of AI solutions
• Drive prototyping and experimentation of AI solutions

What you bring:

• University degree
• 3Y+ of experience in building AI or digital products, banking area is a plus
• Product ownership and/or Project management experience
• Experience working in agile environments
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Experience with AI / data / advanced analytics projects is a bonus
• Good written and spoken English

Personal characteristics that are welcome:

• „Yes, if...“ attitude rather than „No, because...“
• Ready to challenge the status quo
• Makes decisions based on relevant data and insights
• Highly analytical and structured approach
• Enjoys bringing ideas to reality
• Strong customer-centric approach
• Discovery and experimentation mindset
• Proactive approach to everyday work

What’s in it for you:

• Working in a positive atmosphere and supportive work environment
• Agile way of working with modern and digitized processes
• Working with cross-functional team consisting of different industry experts
• Unique chance to participate in and drive AI transformation of the organization
• Ability to see the purpose and direct impact as result of your work
• Opportunity for continuous professional and personal development
• Flexible working arrangements, hybrid way of work and determining your own work-life balance
• Private pension fund and health insurance
• Company restaurant with preferential prices for employees
• Sport activities and team buildings
• Competitive compensation with number of additional perks