Product Owner, AI Platform

Are you excited about the possibility to apply your skillset to implement key AI usecases that bring tangible business benefit? What about utilizing generative AI to create innovative solutions for our employees? Do subjects like AI, GPT, and LLMs inspire your day-to-day work? If your answer is yes, keep on reading, as we are now growing our Data Platform and AI tribe with a full-time product owner.

About The Role

We are looking for a product owner to define our AI platform and AI Agentic Framework. You are responsible for defining the platforms strategy and vision and ensuring successful implementation of the new platform within the organisation.

You will act as a liason between business units, development teams, and other technical experts, translating developer needs and business requirements into technical solutions.

You will participate in advancing the product vision and ensure that the platform aligns with OP Financial Group’s ICT architecture. Together with the team, you will support the platform's usage and optimization.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain the vision and roadmap for the AI platform and AI Agent Platform, ensuring it meets the needs of various stakeholders within OP Financial Group.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including data scientists, engineers, and business analysts, to define and prioritize features and enhancements.
• Work closely with AI teams within business segments to understand their needs and roadmap.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all AI platform-related initiatives, providing clear and actionable direction to the development team.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and data privacy standards.
• Communicate progress, challenges, and successes to senior management and other stakeholders.
  
  

More About The Role And Team

The Generative AI team focuses on bringing the latest AI capabilities to OP Financial Group. We already have our internal AI chat for in-house use, which serves our employees in their daily work. In the near future we are moving towards AI agents and agentic workflows. The team plays a significant role in shaping how Generative AI impacts OP Financial Group.

What do we wish from you?

We are seeking a candidate who already has experience from Data Scientist work and related software development. You have a strong understanding of what creating AI products entails. Experience with Azure or LLMs (Large language models) would be considered as a plus. We also appreciate an understanding of deep learning and the ability to script for new data sources using Python. Ideally you should be skilled with Data Scientist’s toolkit and enthusiastic with agile software development. We understand that you might not have experience in all these areas just yet. What really matters is your motivation and willingness to learn and grow. In our team, we also appreciate taking initiative, strong teamwork skills, and a positive attitude. We also hope you can communicate clearly and understandably in English and/or Finnish.

Check-list

• Proven experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role, with a focus on AI products.
• Strong understanding of AI technologies and software development
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and tools.
• Fluency in English; proficiency in Finnish is a plus.
• Understanding the latest AI Agent capabilities is a plus.
  
  

You won't be working alone. Your will be closely interacting with both the people who use our data within the organization and the team responsible for putting these ideas into practice. A crucial part of your job will also be designing the actual product itself. This means defining the model, and deciding how users will interact with it. You won't be doing this alone either—you'll collaborate with a developer to make this design a reality, contributing to the entire process of putting it into action. This opportunity is available in either Helsinki or Oulu, based on your preference. Like the rest of OP, we work in a flexible manner, combining both office days and remote work.

What We Offer

To help counterbalance work where you are expected to take a lot of responsibility, we seek to ensure employee wellbeing and to enable forward-looking work arrangements. We offer a stable working environment where you can contribute to our core values responsibility, people first and succeeding together.

You will enjoy a wide range of staff benefits, including a personnel fund and special terms for employee banking, insurance and loan services. We offer comprehensive occupational health care, extensive medical treatment expenses insurance and a full-time group accident insurance policy. Furthermore, we invest in wellbeing at work by encouraging a good work-life balance, providing flexibility in your daily life, and offering lunch, sport and cultural benefits and opportunities for affordable holidays in OP timeshares.

We also encourage and help you to further develop yourself as a technical professional. We have the so called “70/20/10 rule” in use, which means you will use 70% of your time for your daily tasks, 20% to develop the way you do those tasks, and the last 10% is reserved for you to learn and try new things. You will also have our OP Tech Academy at your disposal in case you are interested in learning new technologies or methodologies, or why not in honing your skills in your current stack. 

Did we spark your interest?

Great – that’s what we were hoping for! The application period is open until 16.2.2025 but we will go through applications as they come so don't wait until the deadline to send in your application!

Any questions in mind?

Competence Lead Tiina Mäntykangas can tell you more about the position. You can reach her on Thursday the 6th and 13th between 1500 and 1600 at +358 44 3264397.

We operate in the financial sector and our business is founded on trust and accountability. For this reason, we will check the successful candidate's credit history, corporate connections and potential conflicts of interest. In addition, the successful candidate must take a drug test and will be subject to a security clearance vetting by the Finnish Security and Intelligence Service

OP Financial Group – We have something in common

Diversity and equality are highly prized at OP Financial Group. We want everyone to feel welcome and valued, and we appreciate that diversity enriches us and brings new perspectives. We invite job applications from everyone, because we all have something in common. We’re thrilled that you want to join us on our shared journey.

Owned by our customers, we are the most attractive financial sector employer in Finland. Our Group employs more than 14,000 professionals. We have a mission – to promote the sustainable prosperity, security and wellbeing of our owner-customers and operating region. What we do matters, both to our employees and society in general. As the largest financial services group in Finland, we are building a better tomorrow; this has been our goal for more than 120 years.