AI Product Owner
Job Description
Own business outcomes for AI delivery as the primary liaison between GSM functions and the GSM AI delivery team. You’ll lead discovery and requirements, help translate business needs into actionable work, and coordinate delivery to drive productivity, efficiency, and better user experiences. This hybrid role is based in Milwaukee, WI and supports a flexible work schedule within Rockwell Automation’s hybrid expectations.
Responsibilities
- Partner with GSM stakeholders to identify business challenges, users, workflows, pain points, and desired outcomes.
- Define current and future-state processes, including scope, constraints, dependencies, and key partners.
- Focus on the underlying business need while shaping solution-ready requirements.
- Gather, validate, and document requirements, user stories, use cases, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage and maintain the backlog, covering enhancements, defects, priorities, dependencies, and decisions.
- Ensure work is development ready before execution.
- Assess requests by business value, user impact, complexity, risk, readiness, and capacity.
- Recommend priorities, tradeoffs, and sequencing to GSM AI leadership.
- Escalate unresolved issues related to ownership, policy, funding, data, or capacity when needed.
- Work with Process Architects and AI Developers to translate business needs into effective solutions.
- Support backlog refinement, design reviews, testing, demonstrations, and acceptance activities.
- Manage scope changes and keep partners aligned on impacts and dependencies.
- Define pilot objectives, success criteria, participants, and feedback mechanisms.
- Collect and translate user feedback into prioritized improvements and adoption actions.
- Partner with enablement and business leaders on communications, training, and change management.
- Establish success measures upfront, then monitor adoption, usability, efficiency, and business impact metrics.
- Identify continuous improvement opportunities, reuse potential, and pathways for broader AI adoption.
- Provide transparent updates on scope, priorities, decisions, risks, and outcomes.
- Maintain alignment between business needs, delivered capabilities, user feedback, and measured results.
- Ensure work is paused or closed when ownership, readiness, value, or priority is insufficient.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. Rockwell Automation will not sponsor individuals for employment visas for this job opening, now or in the future.
Tools and Technologies
- Microsoft Copilot
- Power Platform
- Copilot Studio
- Salesforce
Benefits
- Health Insurance including Medical, Dental, and Vision
- 401k
- Paid Time off
- Parental and Caregiver Leave
- Flexible Work Schedule coordinated with your manager to fit your personal life
Hybrid Work Policy
Employees are expected to work at a Rockwell location at least Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, unless there is a business obligation out of the office.
Preferred (May Also Have)
- Typically 8 years of experience in product ownership, business analysis, process improvement, commercial excellence, digital transformation, or a related field.
- Experience gathering requirements, facilitating stakeholder discussions, and translating business needs into solutions.
- Proven ability to manage backlogs, priorities, cross-functional initiatives, and competing demands in an evolving environment.
- Experience with AI, automation, digital products, low-code platforms, or enterprise technology solutions.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Copilot, Power Platform, Copilot Studio, Salesforce, or similar platforms.
- Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, or Business Analysis experience and methodologies.
- Experience supporting user testing, pilots, adoption, and change management initiatives.
- Ability to define success metrics and measure adoption, productivity, process improvements, and business outcomes.
- Relevant Agile, Scrum, Product Owner, Business Analysis, or process improvement certification preferred.
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