About the role: 

As a Product Owner at Kainos, you'll be at the heart of how we bring generative and agentic AI into our market-leading Smart Test Product for Workday. 

You'll have a hands-on role in shaping and delivering our AI and agentic testing strategy — bringing innovative capabilities into the product to maintain our leading market position.  

Your passion for product management will shine through in everything you do. This is your chance to make a real difference and leave your mark on our products and services during this exciting growth phase. As a result, you will have opportunities to advance into senior roles within the Kainos Smart business or the wider Kainos organisation. 

You will: 

• Know your customer’s needs, personas, and why they engage with your product. 

• Become an expert in the problems we solve for our customers and “why” they matter. 

• Know your competition and how to stay ahead of them. 

• Use generative and agentic AI to deliver real-world customer value. 

• Continually validate that you deliver measurable customer value. 

• Lead workshops with customers and internal stakeholders to unpack requirements. 

• Be ready to back your decisions with quantitative and qualitative data. 

• Build alignment across engineering, sales, pre-sales, marketing and professional services. 

• Use AI to accelerate discovery and rapidly prototype ideas. 

• Manage roadmap delivery – Creating actionable user stories, setting measurable success criteria, and tracking actual outcomes against target. 

• Ensure close alignment to business goals and values. 

• Launch products and features to market – organising and enabling delivery, pre-sales, and onboarding – and drive adoption. 

• Contribute to marketing campaigns and support Sales with product demos. 

• Scope MVP and Early Adopter Programmes – setting and communicating expectations, time scales, ideal customer profiles, acceptance criteria and exit gates. 

• Be responsible - Identifying and mitigating risks to the business and to the project. 

Minimum (essential) requirements: 

• A minimum of 2-3 years' experience working as a Product Owner in a SaaS environment, managing backlogs, working with development teams and prioritising roadmaps. 

• Demonstrable experience of creating customer value using generative or agentic AI. 

• Outcome oriented mindset – Demonstrated aptitude to connect product investments with measurable customer value and outcomes, not just feature delivery. 

• Customer focused – Comfort and ability engaging with customers and users. You will act as the voice of the customer in functional or technical product discussions. 

• Proven ability to navigate competing priorities and align stakeholders. 

• Excellent communication skills. A persuasive and effective communicator with strong negotiating skills. It's not only about talking — you'll need to listen, understand, and build on others' viewpoints. 

• Being flexible to travel if required to customer and partner locations worldwide. 

Desirable: 

• Workday experience 

• Relevant commercial experience in Test Automation and/or HCM, Payroll, Financial or Recruitment systems. 

• Enthusiasm for new technologies and innovation – include agentic and generative AI - and a proactive approach to integrating these into how we work and into the product roadmap. 

• Good understanding of AI trends, and AI-driven development practices.