Senior Product Owner - AI Research & Ontology Products

We are looking for a Senior 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, roadmap, and priorities for semantic search, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), knowledge discovery, ontology evolution, metadata management, and AI-enabled content experiences.

• Ensuring AI research initiatives, ontology models, metadata frameworks, and AI-powered functionality align with governance, security, privacy, regulatory, explainability, and customer requirements.

• 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.

• Strategically prioritizing complex AI and ontology-related backlog items based on business value, customer impact, technical dependencies, risk, and delivery sequencing

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

• Coaching Product Owners within the team, sharing experiences, best practices, and expertise to support professional growth and product management excellence.

What we are looking for

• 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner, delivering cloud-based software projects.

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

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

• Experience working with data platforms, metadata management, information retrieval systems, and interoperability between systems.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Experience managing the transition of initiatives from research and experimentation into scalable product capabilities is desirable.

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

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!