AI Product Lead - Financial Services

Salary: Circa £80,000 - £120,000
Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh, hybrid working

Our client is aleading fintech specialising in data, helping some of the world's largest financial institutions manage and make sense of critical data. They've recently built an embedded AI capability within their platform, and are now looking for anAI Product Lead to take it from ad hoc, SME-led innovation into a structured, scalable, repeatable product capability.

This is a genuinely new role - no legacy backlog to inherit, no fixed way of doing things to unlearn. You'll be defining how AI product delivery works here, not just executing someone else's playbook.

What you'll be doing:

• Owning and managing the AI product backlog end to end
• Translating input from customers, internal stakeholders and technical SMEs into well-defined, buildable features
• Breaking ambiguous AI concepts into practical, shippable increments
• Working closely with Engineering to guide ideas through to live, adopted features
• Helping define how AI delivery is measured and improved over time

What we're looking for:

• Proven experience owning a product backlog, with real evidence of turning ambiguous ideas into shipped, adopted features
• Comfortable operating hands-on at execution level, not purely strategic or research-focused
• Experience in data-heavy, workflow-driven platforms
• Financial services background (banking, asset management, insurance), and familiarity with reconciliation, financial data, or operational controls - desirable, not essential
• FCA-regulated environment experience, or B2B SaaS/platform product background - desirable, not essential

What's on offer:

• Circa £80,000-£120,000 base, genuinely open on positioning given this is a new role for the team
• Strong benefits package including enhanced annual leave, salary-exchange pension, bonus schemes, private healthcare, life insurance, and learning/development access
• Hybrid working - Glasgow or Edinburgh based

Interested in finding out more, on a fully confidential basis? Get in touch.

Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.