AI Product Manager ​/ Project Manager – Senior Associate

Established in the region for 40 years, PwC has around 12,000 people in 12 countries across the region:
Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, the Palestinian territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Our regional team operates across the Middle East bringing international experience delivered within the context of the region and its culture. We can bring the collective knowledge and experience of more than 370,000 people across the entire global PwC network in advisory, assurance and tax to help you find the value you are looking for.

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.

IFS is a network of specialist support professionals, which includes Clients & Markets, Finance, Human Capital, Office Management, Risk & Quality, and Technology, to name a few. Each function plays a vital role in making sure we have all the right resources, services and technology across our business.

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions, and requirements gathering activities.
• Act as the bridge between business stakeholders and delivery teams.
• Clarify priorities, resolve requirement ambiguities, and align stakeholders on delivery outcomes.
• Communicate product progress, risks,…