AI Product Manager

Location: Hybrid / Ilkley LS29 8FL
, UK
job type: Permanent / Full-time
Sector and subsector: Product and Innovation | Product Management
Salary: Competitive salary

Smart Search’s distinctive Anti-Money Laundering verification software protects our clients by offering the most advanced and comprehensive features available from an AML provider.

Smart Search has grown rapidly by fostering an incredibly collaborative and supportive culture. As we continue our ambitious growth plans, we will strive to remain a truly exciting, rewarding, and unique place to work.

This is an exciting time to join Smart Search. We’re investing in AI across our products, delivery processes and customer experiences, with a significant opportunity to shape how these capabilities develop.

We’re looking for an AI Product Manager to help identify the right problems to solve, turn emerging technology opportunities into clear product propositions and ensure our investment delivers measurable value for customers and the business.

Working alongside Product, Engineering, Data, UX, Compliance and Commercial teams, you’ll take ownership from discovery through to launch and ongoing optimisation. You’ll bring strategic thinking, strong product leadership and the ability to balance innovation with governance, feasibility and commercial outcomes.

It’s a role with significant scope and ownership. We’re looking for someone who can bring clarity to ambiguity, move confidently between strategy and delivery, and help shape the future of AI-enabled products at Smart Search.

• Identify high-value opportunities for AI across customer-facing products and internal operations.
• Lead customer, user and stakeholder discovery to understand problems, needs, behaviours and desired outcomes.
• Translate insight into clear problem statements, hypotheses, product opportunities and measurable outcomes.
• Assess opportunities using customer value, strategic alignment, commercial potential, feasibility, risk and data readiness.

Shape & prioritise

• Define and maintain the product vision, strategy and roadmap for AI-enabled capabilities.
• Build evidence-based business cases, including expected benefits, investment needs and measures of success.
• Prioritise initiatives and delivery increments based on evidence, value and strategic fit.
• Ensure the AI portfolio remains coherent, focused and aligned with wider Product and business priorities.
• Work closely with Engineering, Data, UX and Compliance from experimentation and prototyping through to production.
• Translate opportunities into clear product outcomes, requirements and delivery plans without prescribing technical solutions.
• Support iterative delivery, making informed trade-offs based on learning, risk and customer value.
• Balance innovation with responsible AI, transparency, data protection, governance and appropriate human oversight.
• Plan for product adoption, internal readiness and go-to-market activity alongside Commercial and customer-facing teams.
• Define and monitor adoption, quality, efficiency, customer and commercial KPIs.
• Use product performance, customer feedback and operational data to guide ongoing optimisation.
• Champion evidence-based decision making and communicate progress, outcomes and learning clearly.

You’ll be an experienced Product Manager who is comfortable working with emerging technology, complex problems and cross-functional teams. You’ll combine product judgement with commercial awareness and be able to create structure while the problem or solution is still evolving.

• Proven Product Management experience within a B2B SaaS or technology-led environment.
• Experience defining product vision, strategy, roadmaps…