Senior Product Owner (AI Research & Semantic Technologies) - Lisbon

We are looking for a Product Owner in Lisbon who's eager to embark on an exciting new opportunity! 💪

🤩 About KWAN

We connect IT professionals with projects that match their skills, professional experience, and goals, then we offer a career progression program, delivered by in-house specialists - our People Experience Partners - to guide them through our journey with us.

🚀 What is this challenge about

• Engaging with Product Managers, Engineering, Architecture, AI teams and business stakeholders to execute the vision, roadmap, and strategic direction of AI research initiatives, ontology capabilities, and AI-powered products.

• Defining and prioritizing AI research initiatives, semantic search capabilities, ontology improvements, metadata enrichment strategies, and AI-powered customer experiences that support strategic AI initiatives across the portfolio.

• Contributing to the definition and execution of the strategy and priorities for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge discovery, ontology evolution, metadata management, and AI-enabled content experiences.

• Coordinate delivery across multiple products, ensuring dependencies, ownership transitions, and delivery handoffs are clearly defined and managed.

• Facilitating the transition of initiatives from research, experimentation, and prototyping into product delivery, ensuring success criteria, business value, ownership, and delivery expectations are clearly understood before implementation begins.

• Creating user stories and acceptance criteria that clearly articulate product requirements, expected behaviors, customer outcomes, and quality expectations for each feature or capability.

🛠 What we are looking for

• 3+ years of experience in delivering cloud-based software projects.

• Strong knowledge of Agile methodologies, prioritization frameworks and implementation experience.

• Knowledge of Jira, Confluence, and other product management and collaboration tools.

• Knowledge of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and modern software architectures, with the ability to understand how AI, search and data capabilities integrate within larger product ecosystems.

• Knowledge of ontology management, taxonomy design, knowledge representation, semantic technologies, metadata frameworks, or information architecture concepts.

• Experience with semantic search, Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), vector databases, knowledge discovery, and AI-powered user experiences.

• Familiarity with AI-enabled solutions, Large Language Models (LLMs), retrieval-based systems, AI evaluation approaches, and AI governance concepts.

• Experience collaborating with Research, Architecture, Engineering, Data, and Platform teams to translate technical designs and research outcomes into product requirements, roadmaps, and customer-facing capabilities.

• Fluency in English.

👉 Do you meet most of the position requirements? Then grab this opportunity and apply now! 🤩💪

✨ What we offer

• A project that matches your skills and ambitions, as well as your preferences for working policies and culture.

• A competitive salary with awesome benefits and opportunities to leverage your knowledge and network to earn additional income.

• An empowering and respectful work culture enriched with social and learning events.

• A People Experience Partner specially assigned to you - your go-to career guide, responsible for supporting your growth, facilitating training, and ensuring your work-life balance at KWAN.

• A relocation package and visa sponsorship for all our international hires.

🙌 Some Words From Our Colleagues

“At KWAN, they make sure that I feel comfortable with the client I’m working for and that what I’m doing aligns with my career aspirations.” - Luis Caldeira, DevOps @ KWAN

👉 Grab this opportunity, apply now! 🤩💪