Senior Product Manager - Manufacturing; AI-Native England, United Kingdom Research and Development

Senior Product Manager - Manufacturing (AI-Native)

• Full-time

IFS is a billion-dollar revenue company with 7000+ employees on all continents. Our leading AI technology is the backbone of our award-winning enterprise software solutions, enabling our customers to be their best when it really matters–at the Moment of Service™. Our commitment to internal AI adoption has allowed us to stay at the forefront of technological advancements, ensuring our colleagues can unlock their creativity and productivity, and our solutions are always cutting-edge.

At IFS, we’re flexible, we’re innovative, and we’re focused not only on how we can engage with our customers but on how we can make a real change and have a worldwide impact. We help solve some of society’s greatest challenges, fostering a better future through our agility, collaboration, and trust.

We celebrate diversity and understand our responsibility to reflect the diverse world we work in. We are committed to promoting an inclusive workforce that fully represents the many different cultures, backgrounds, and viewpoints of our customers, our partners, and our communities. As a truly international company serving people from around the globe, we realize that our success is tantamount to the respect we have for those different points of view.

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We’re looking for innovative and original thinkers to work in an environment where you can#Make Your Moment so that we can help others make theirs. With the power of our AI-driven solutions, we empower our team to change the status quo and make a real difference.

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Manufacturing is entering an era that is AI-enabled, data-driven, autonomous, and increasingly intelligent. This role sits at the center of that transformation. As a Product Manager for Manufacturing Solutions, you will define and drive products that optimize operations, improve efficiency, and deliver measurable business impact for industrial customers.

You will own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from discovery to adoption to scale, acting as the strategic bridge between customer needs, engineering execution, and commercial outcomes. Leading with a start-up mindset, you will set vision and direction, validate with customers and industry stakeholders, prioritize ruthlessly, and deliver scalable solutions aligned with IFS's AI-first strategy.

• Define and execute a clear product vision and roadmap aligned with company strategy and measurable customer outcomes.
• Identify high-impact opportunities through market, customer, competitive, and industry analysis.
• Build strong investment cases focused on value creation, adoption, scalability, and differentiation.
• Drive growth across core and AI revenue streams.
• Align strategy across related products or components within the portfolio.

• Lead end-to-end discovery with Research and Design.
• Engage directly with customers to understand workflows, operational challenges, and desired outcomes.
• Co-create and validate solutions with customers
• Establish continuous feedback loops from discovery through to adoption.
• Use qualitative and quantitative insights to refine direction and ensure ROI.
• Ruthlessly prioritize based on measurable value.
• Leverage AI/ML and automation to enhance operational decision-making and optimize manufacturing workflows.
• Lead functional prototyping and early validation to ensure feasibility and market fit.
• Champion an AI-first mindset across Product, Design, and Engineering, ensuring AI is applied intentionally where it creates meaningful customer and commercial value.
• Identify high-impact opportunities to embed AI into workflows, decision support, automation and user experiences, not as a feature add‑on, but as a core capability

• Own the lifecycle from concept through launch and scale
• Brid…