AI Product Owner Core Banking

About the Role

Strike IT Recruitment Services is seeking an experienced AI Product Owner – Core Banking to join their team in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This contract role focuses on leading the development and adoption of AI-enabled banking products and capabilities, particularly across payments, cards, remittances, and core banking. The position combines product ownership with a strong emphasis on achieving measurable AI outcomes within defined controls.

Role Overview

The AI Product Owner will be responsible for ensuring that AI solutions deliver tangible business value, meet user needs, and operate within established guidelines. This involves defining product strategy, translating business requirements into AI use cases, and monitoring the performance and governance of AI-enabled banking products.

Key Responsibilities

• Define the product vision, roadmap, scope, and prioritized backlog for AI-enabled banking capabilities.
• Translate business and user needs into clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Establish success measures covering business outcomes, user experience, adoption, and AI performance.
• Define AI guardrails, human oversight, escalation paths, and recourse for incorrect or unexpected AI outputs.
• Work with technical teams to monitor model drift, performance deterioration, and user feedback, identifying retraining and improvement needs.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and user adoption across business, technology, operations, and control functions.
• Support vendor assessments and manage delivery scope in line with the agreed roadmap.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Proven Product Owner experience within banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of core banking processes, with experience across payments, cards, remittances, or related banking products.
• Experience delivering AI or machine learning-enabled products, with an understanding of how their performance and outcomes are monitored.
• Ability to translate banking requirements into practical AI use cases with measurable value.
• Understanding of responsible AI, governance, human oversight, and controls within a regulated environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and experience working with engineering, data science, and business teams.
• Experience managing Agile backlogs, prioritization, delivery dependencies, and external vendors.

Work Type and Location

This is a contract position based in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Application Information

Candidates who meet the specified requirements are encouraged to apply.