Product Manager and Market Strategy for AI Solutions

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This Product Manager and Market Strategy role is housed in our BeyondIF team, which is part of our Data & Digital division. BeyondIF is Jacobs innovation and R&D program and acts as an "accelerator" for a range of digital innovations across many markets and geographies. Artificial Intelligence has the potential to disrupt and improve outcomes for a huge portion of Jacobs' mission. Jacobs has developed several new AI tools, with many more in pilot stage, that maximize the upsides of AI while minimizing the risks. This role, working within Jacobs' BeyondIF program, will foster several emerging tools out of the pilot and into the "scaling" phase.

Areas Of Responsibility

• "Outbound" oriented product management - leading voice-of-customer and voice-of-prospect interviews and consolidating results. Defining key user stories, writing specifications, and prioritizing the roadmap.
• Collaborating with the engineering and delivery team (mostly in Poland) to deliver on the roadmap.
• Prioritization of AI product and solution roadmap, in coordination with D&D and Poland Jacobs AI team.
• Forecasting the products' financial outlook by defining total potential market, pricing, and long term costs to ensure the right product investments are made.
• Product marketing work including, defining and drafting how the product should be pitched (value proposition statements, etc.)
• Collaborating with people teams across the Jacobs' global business and maintaining clear, organized conversation and documentation.
• Working within the Jacobs context - these are all products that will be launched via Jacobs' vast footprint in our markets. Thus, this job requires understanding the bigger context and prioritizing products and paths to market that make "being part of Jacobs" the greatest strength. This may lead to prioritization of products that an independent tech company might not prioritize!
  
  

Note: There will be significant collaboration required with European and North American time zones

• 5-10 years total experience split in any ratio across the following:
• Product management experience in enterprise/commercial software and digital tools (managing roadmaps, organizing backlogs, summarizing customer/prospect/market feedback and turning it into excellent product specifications documents, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience working on the financial/commercial side of things (previous responsibility for business planning, and MBA, etc.)
• Interest in transportation, water, mobility, and/or energy
• Interest in enterprise software and AI including market sizing and price determination
• Comfortable conducting qualitative interviews with customers (existing and prospective), partners, and competitors.
• Comfort making decisions quickly in a fast-changing environment
• Adept at conducting primary and secondary research to analyze and size potential markets, establish market segmentation, competitors, market-entry challenges, and financial opportunity.
• Excellent Executive-level communication skills, including written, spreadsheet visual (presentations), and verbal.
• Ability to take initiative and drive projects from concept to completion, even in ambiguous or undefined environments.
  
  

Preferred

• Experience in AI products and solutions
• Experience in the AEC (Architectural, Engineering, and Consultant) industry or related industries
• Experience with DevOps, Jira, or related
  
  

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