AI Product Strategy Lead

About Us

Inference Group is a fast-growing data and AI consultancy dedicated to helping organisations unlock their true potential through the transformative power of data, machine learning, and AI. Working with customers worldwide we help turn cutting-edge ideas into scalable, operational solutions that enhance human decision-making and drive sustainable growth.

Built by a team of curious, passionate technologists, Inference Group combines deep technical expertise with a practical, delivery-focused mindset. As we grow, we’re looking for like-minded people who are excited by lifelong learning, eager to challenge existing ways of working, and motivated to make a real impact in an AI-driven world.

Role Overview

We’re partnering with a global organisation investing heavily in AI to transform how it operates at scale. As part of this journey, they are building out a strategic capability focused on selecting, shaping, and governing the tools that enable AI adoption across the business.

They’re looking for an AI Product Strategy Lead to support a major new initiative, helping define how AI tools are evaluated, selected, and deployed across a complex enterprise environment.

This is a highly strategic role suited to someone who sits comfortably between product, technology, and business - someone who can understand where the AI landscape is heading, translate that into clear recommendations, and influence decision-making at a senior level.

Location: London, UK this is a hybrid role with client visits and regular team meetings

What You’ll Be Doing

• Establish and continuously validate product-market fit for strategic AI tooling, translating colleague and business needs into clear value propositions and adoption hypotheses.
• Define target user segments and priority use cases, ensuring tooling decisions are grounded in measurable outcomes (e.g., productivity uplift, quality, risk reduction).
• Conduct competitor analysis across the external market and client solutions, identifying differentiators, gaps, and opportunities to consolidate or scale.
• Maintain a clear view of “build vs buy vs partner” options and how they evolve over time.
• Be at the forefront of knowledge on how AI capabilities, vendors, and product patterns are moving over a 6–12 month horizon, highlighting implications for the tooling roadmap.
• Provide forward-looking insights to inform prioritisation, investment decisions, and sequencing of tooling adoption.
• Engage with GBIs to understand their AI strategies, priorities, and constraints, and ensure alignment with Group direction.
• Build strong relationships with key business stakeholders, product owners, and technology teams to drive shared outcomes and reduce duplication.
• Assess new AI products as they are released, identifying complementary tools that strengthen the overall AI ecosystem.
• Evaluate productivity tools proposed from other parts of the bank, providing structured recommendations on fit, overlap, integration considerations, and strategic alignment.
• Define and monitor relevant KPIs to support transparency and accountability (e.g., adoption, value delivered, overlap reduction, time-to-decision).
• Own and maintain documentation covering market insights, assessments, recommendations, and decisions to support consistent governance.

What You Bring

• Extensive experience in strategic product, programme, or portfolio roles, ideally involving emerging technology and enterprise tooling decisions.
• Strong understanding of finance product lifecycle and governance, with the ability to translate market signals into actionable roadmaps.
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI, including how capabilities and vendor offerings evolve.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, able to influence senior stakeholders with clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Strong analytical skills to synthesise market intelligence, competitor insights, and stakeholder needs into a strategic tooling direction.
• Proactive, self-motivated, and comfortable operating in ambiguity while maintaining pace and rigour.

Working With Us:

Inference Group is a young, fast-growing consultancy built by people who are naturally curious and genuinely love what they do. We work on interesting problems, value learning, and care deeply about delivering solutions that actually work in the real world.

We’re committed to hiring future leaders and investing in their growth - through hands-on experience, mentorship, access to the latest technologies, and ongoing training and certifications. AI moves fast, and we make it our job to stay ahead of the curve, together.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape AI adoption at scale within global organisations, work at the forefront of GenAI and enterprising tool decisions, and the chance to help shape something special - and yes, we’ll have a lot of fun along the way.

> We Geek Out Loud: we excel in our data and AI domain, using our expertise to deliver solutions that realise value. We share our wisdom and experience proudly, no egos, just pure tech passion.

> We Act Boldly, and Collaborate Openly: we explore uncharted territories, working on the new to deliver operational solutions at scale. We don’t tread over old ground. We collaborate openly with full transparency, learning from each other as a community.

> We are the Connectors: we bridge the gaps between business value, data engineering, data science and deployment. Working seamlessly as one unified team internally and externally to deliver working solutions for our clients.

> We Empower our Customers: we equip our clients with the skills and knowledge to fully leverage, scale and deploy data and AI solutions. We prioritise delivering operational success over prototypes and proof of concepts to provide long term value. We build trust.

> We Love our Work: we are proud of the work we do and take ownership of it. We work on the things we love and care about, we work with passion with people we respect.

> We are Data Jedis: we work on hard problems and aim to deliver working solutions at scale. We don’t have time for politics, backbiting, gossiping, game playing or selfish behaviour. We work as one team with a mission to deliver and we will only achieve that together.