Verity Group

Senior Product Owner – AI and Innovation

Verity Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: São Paulo • Brazil

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • The Product Owner (PO) will be responsible for leading the innovation strategy and advancing the customer journey through AI initiatives and active experimentation (POCs).
  • Your main challenge will be to define the product vision by deeply understanding customer needs and converting hypotheses into actionable, testable experiments.
  • This professional will act as the bridge between stakeholders, finance, and the technical team, ensuring AI solutions are technically feasible, financially viable, and deliver measurable business results.
  • Enabling AI POCs: Actively participate in the innovation squad, understanding customer needs and ensuring the technical execution of experiments.
  • Storytelling and Results: Create executive presentations that clearly demonstrate the success (or learnings) of completed POCs.
  • Strategic Prioritization: Conduct prioritization meetings with the executive board, ensuring the squad focuses on the highest-impact initiatives.
  • Market Analysis: Technically evaluate AI vendors and solutions in partnership with technical leadership, ensuring the best choice for the business.
  • 360° Viability View: Ensure every new idea has a structured Canvas that includes financial and technical information before entering development.
  • Opportunity Capture: "Sit with the business" and end customers to mine for new opportunities to apply artificial intelligence across the journey.

Requirements

  • Empathy and Customer Centricity: Relentless focus on capturing customer pain points and converting them into AI opportunities.
  • Executive Communication: Ability to deliver high-impact presentations to the board, translating technical POC results into business value.
  • Negotiation and Critical Judgment: Analytical capability to evaluate vendors and prioritize the backlog based on return potential and feasibility.
  • Experimentation Mindset: Resilience to work within the "fail fast" cycle and continuous learning typical of innovation squads.
  • Cross-functional Collaboration: Initiative to engage across Planning, Finance, and Operations areas.
  • AI and POC Management: Experience leading Proof of Concept cycles from conception to results analysis and scale/stop decisions.
  • Product Discovery and Innovation Frameworks: Proficiency with techniques such as AI Canvas, Lean Canvas and value mapping to structure new initiatives.
  • Feasibility Assessment (Business Case): Ability to align with planning and finance teams to validate technical feasibility and ROI for each POC.
  • Vendor Management: Skill in evaluating market solutions (AI vendors) together with the Squad Technical Lead.
  • Assessment and Diagnostics: Experience conducting assessments with operations to identify bottlenecks and new opportunities for intelligent automation.
  • Agile Frameworks: Hands-on experience with backlog prioritization rituals and strategic alignment meetings with executives.
Benefits
  • Meal allowance
  • Grocery allowance
  • Home office allowance
  • Health insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Discount partnerships
  • Agreements with retail establishments and educational institutions
  • Recurring agility trainings
  • Verity Intervalor
  • #VerityWithYou
  • Viva Engage
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
AI initiativesProof of Concept (POC) managementProduct discovery frameworksAI CanvasLean CanvasValue mappingFeasibility assessmentVendor evaluationBacklog prioritizationIntelligent automation
Soft Skills
EmpathyCustomer centricityExecutive communicationNegotiationCritical judgmentExperimentation mindsetCross-functional collaborationAnalytical capabilityResilienceInitiative