Director, Technical Product Owner - Data & AI

Are you a dynamic AI Product Owner & Engineering Manager who enjoys driving the vision, strategy, and execution of AI -powered products while leading a high-performance team? This role combines AI product management and technical leadership, ensuring collaboration between data science, engineering, and business team!

The talent in this position will define the artificial intelligence product roadmap, developing scalable AI architecture, and leading AI driven innovation, ensuring our products are built with innovative technologies like LLMs, Generative AI and real time analytics.

Aon is in the business of better decisions.

At Aon, we shape decisions for the better to protect and enrich the lives of people around the world.

As an organization, we are united through trust as one inclusive team, and we are passionate about helping our colleagues and clients succeed.

• Engage on AI vision and roadmap through standup meetings and collaborator reviews
• AI Development and execution- Code review, model optimization, MLOps, AI deployment
• Product management & AI strategy- Backlog and feature prioritization, AI strategy and experimentation, multi-functional meetings
• Learning & Innovation- AI trends review, reflect and plan for next day

Key responsibilities include:

Product Ownership and Strategy

Define and champion the AI product vision, roadmap, and execution strategy. Identify, prioritize AI use cases with business impact. Develop data-drive AI products that integrate LLMs, NLP, RAG and MLOps workflow. Ensure AI solutions align with compliance, ethics, and responsible AI principals. Work closely with UX, software and data engineering teams to create AI-powered user experience. Responsible for product performance metrics, AI model performance, and key performance indicators.

Engineering Leadership & AI Execution

Lead and mentor a team of AI engineers and data scientist. Architect and implement scalable, cloud-based AI pipelines. Drive standard processes, ensuring a detailed model deployment lifecycle management and CI/CD automation. Optimize AI models for performance, latency and scalability. Champion an environment of AI experimentation, rapid prototyping, and innovation.

Collaboration and thought leadership.

Act as a link between AI engineering, business teams, and leadership. Influence senior executive, business teams and clients on AI capabilities and strategy. Stay ahead of AI trends, GenAI advancements. And emerging ML search to drive innovation.

We do not offer visa sponsorship for this role.

Skills and experience that will lead to success.

• 10+ years of overall engineering manager experience including 2+ years in artificial intelligence product management, engineering, or ML Leadership role.
• Expertise in AI/ML, MLOps, and cloud AI deployment
• High proficiency of knowledge in LLMs, RAG, vector search, and NLP
• Experience leading multi-functional AI team sand driving AI product roadmap
• Hands on knowledge of ML framework, data pipelines and AI deployment tools
• Excellent collaborator management, decision making, and strategic execution skills.

In addition to our comprehensive benefits package, we encourage an inclusive workforce. Plus, our agile, inclusive environment allows you to manage your wellbeing and work/life balance, ensuring you can be your best self at Aon. Furthermore, all colleagues enjoy two "Global Wellbeing Days" each year, encouraging you to take time to focus on yourself. We offer a variety of working style solutions, but we also recognize that flexibility goes beyond just the place of work... and we are all for it. We call this Smart Working!

Our continuous learning culture inspires and equips you to learn, share and grow, helping you achieve your fullest potential. As a result, at Aon, you are more connected, more relevant, and more valued.

Aon values an innovative and inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel empowered to be their authentic selves. Aon is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

Aon provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran, marital, domestic partner status, or other legally protected status. People with criminal histories are encouraged to apply.

We welcome applications from all and provide individuals with disabilities with reasonable adjustments to participate in the job application, interview process and to perform essential job functions once onboard. If you would like to learn more about the reasonable accommodations we provide, email ReasonableAccommodations@Aon.com

For positions in San Francisco and Los Angeles, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction record in accordance with local Fair Chance ordinances.

Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Aon is not accepting unsolicited resumes from search firms for this position. If you are a search firm, you will not be compensated in any way for your submission of a candidate, even if Aon hires that candidate.

Pay Transparency Laws:

The salary range for this position (intended for U.S. applicants) is $200k to $240k annually. The actual salary will vary based on applicant's education, experience, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data. The salary may also be adjusted based on applicant's geographic location.

Aon offers a comprehensive package of benefits for full-time and regular part-time colleagues, including, but not limited to: a 401(k) savings plan with employer contributions; an employee stock purchase plan; consideration for long-term incentive awards at Aon's discretion; medical, dental and vision insurance, various types of leaves of absence, paid time off, including 12 paid holidays throughout the calendar year, 15 days of paid vacation per year, paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws, short-term disability and optional long-term disability, health savings account, health care and dependent care reimbursement accounts, employee and dependent life insurance and supplemental life and AD&D insurance; optional personal insurance policies, adoption assistance, tuition assistance, commuter benefits, and an employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions. Eligibility for benefits is governed by the applicable plan documents and policies.

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