Ai Product Owner

Job ID: 25996

Location: Chennai, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 30 Apr 2025

**Job Summary**
- This role is critical in driving AI adoption and enablement across the bank functions.
This pivotal role will act as a bridge between business stakeholders and technical teams, ensuring that AI initiatives align with business goals and deliver tangible value. It will be responsible for translating complex AI concepts into actionable business strategies and facilitating the successful implementation of AI-driven solutions.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Continually look at the environment to challenge our assumptions around new sources of data, potential analytics partners, tools, talent and infrastructure.
- Engage with internal clients to improve delivery of analytic projects.
- Explore leading methodologies and best practices and importing successful methodologies from international markets.
- Analyze large datasets to identify trends, patterns, and insights that can inform business decisions and strategy.
- Collaborate with data science teams to design and implement AI models and algorithms that address specific business needs.
- Interpret and communicate the results of AI models to business stakeholders, highlighting key insights and recommendations.
- Recruiting, develop and retain a world class team of diverse data scientists and data architects
- Provide training and support to business users to help them understand and leverage AI tools and technologies.
- Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement by promoting the benefits of AI and encouraging experimentation.
- Work with senior management to develop and refine the bank's AI strategy, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- Identify and prioritize AI use cases that have the potential to deliver significant business value.
- Develop business cases for AI projects, including cost-benefit analysis, risk assessment, and ROI estimation.

**Skills and Experience**
- Minimum 10 years of experience in data science, advanced analytics and predictive / statistical modelling or relevant area
- Proven track record for success in leading high-performance data science teams and building out best-in-class capabilities at the enterprise level.
- Deep expertise in advanced analytics and data science methods, tools, platforms and processes required to successfully design, build and operationalize data science solutions.
- Client-facing experience, with the ability to manage relationships with client/engineering teams.
- Combination of analytical, technical and business acumen
- Experience in translating data concepts into business recommendations.
- Work experience in data engineering such as APIs or data self-service solutions.
- Understanding of banking products and operations gained in technical role in financial services.

**Qualifications**
- At least master’s degree in quantitative field such as mathematics, statistics, operations research or engineering/technology with an emphasis on statistical analysis and data science, Ph.D. degree in those fields is preferred**About Standard Chartered**
- We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.- Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.- Together we:
- **Do the right thing** and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
- **Never settle,** continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
- **Are better together,** we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

**What we offer**

**In line with our Fair Pay Charter,** we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.- **Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance,** with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
- **Time-off** including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
- **Flexible working** optio