AI Product Manager / Project Manager - Senior Associate

Job description

About Us With offices in 152 countries and nearly 328,000 professionals, we are one of the world’s leading professional services networks, helping organisations and individuals create lasting value through Assurance, Tax and Advisory services. For over 40 years, we have contributed to the Middle East’s transformation journey, partnering with governments and businesses to deliver sustainable solutions. Today, more than 12,000 of us across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE are shaping the region’s future. Line of Service Overview Business Enablement Solutions (BES) brings together the specialist functions that enable PwC Middle East to operate, grow and deliver on its strategic ambitions. Our teams span People and Talent, Finance, Technology and AI, Risk and Quality, Business Development, Communications and Brand, Leadership Support, Operations, Transformation and Workplace Services. Together, we enable our people to do their best work, strengthen how our business operates and support our client-facing teams to deliver for our clients. As a human-led, tech-powered organisation, we're using data, technology and AI to simplify how we work, drive innovation and support the continued growth and transformation of PwC Middle East. A career in BES gives you the opportunity to be part of that change. Enabling growth. Delivering excellence. Business Unit Overview The AI Centre of Excellence (AI CoE) is our central engine for AI strategy, product build, and scale. It governs standards and cost and risk controls, runs AI Factory squads to design and ship custom AI solutions and reusable frameworks (LLM and RAG stacks, integrations on Azure), provides technical consultation on architecture, solution design, and best practices, and drives workforce transformation through training and upskilling to accelerate adoption across our lines of service. Operating within IFS, the CoE partners with Experience Design and adjacent technology teams, follows a codified operating model and RACI for approvals and observability, and supports proposals, demos, and delivery with a focus on distinctive outcomes and trusted leadership. How You’ll Contribute As a Product Owner / Business Analyst, you'll play a key role in shaping and delivering AI and Generative AI products by translating business needs into actionable product requirements and supporting end-to-end Agile delivery. Working closely with Product Owners, Architects, Engineers, Experience Designers, and business stakeholders, you'll help define product capabilities, refine backlogs, and ensure solutions deliver measurable business value. The role combines business analysis, Agile product ownership, stakeholder engagement, and AI product delivery, enabling cross-functional teams to build innovative AI solutions aligned with business priorities and the AI Centre of Excellence delivery framework. Product & Backlog Management • Collaborate with Product Owners to define, refine, and maintain the product backlog. • Translate business objectives into epics, features, user stories, and clear acceptance criteria. • Support backlog prioritization based on business value, customer needs, and delivery dependencies. • Ensure backlog readiness for sprint planning and Agile delivery. • Track feature progress and support release planning activities. Business Analysis • Engage stakeholders to understand business objectives, pain points, and opportunities. • Elicit, analyse, validate, and document business, functional, and non-functional requirements. • Develop business process maps, user journeys, and functional specifications. • Collaborate with technical teams to ensure solutions meet business needs. • Support MVP definition and identify opportunities for future enhancements. Stakeholder Engagement • Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements gathering activities. • Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and delivery team

Requirements

• ensure equipment availability
• quality standards
• plan health and safety procedures
• develop business plans
• follow company standards
• manage supplies

Skills