AI Product Lead - Financial Services

AI Product Lead - Financial Technology / Financial Services (Glasgow or Edinburgh, Hybrid) Salary: Circa £80,000 - £120,000 Location: Glasgow or Edinburgh, hybrid working

Our client is a leading 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 an AI 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.