Senior AI Product Manager - Freelance (Financial Services)

Contract Type: Freelance

Start Date: Immediate

Duration: TBC

Location: UK-based with regular travel to London

The Role

We're recruiting for a financial services client who needs an experienced AI Product Manager to lead high-priority transformation initiatives. You'll be working on AI-driven automation projects that will significantly improve operational efficiency across critical business functions, with initial focus on risk and decisioning workflows.

This is a hands-on, delivery-focused role where you'll work directly with engineering and business teams to ship AI solutions that create measurable impact. You'll have significant autonomy and direct access to senior stakeholders, operating in a fast-paced environment that values execution over process.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of AI product initiatives from discovery through to production deployment
• Define product strategy, success metrics and roadmaps for AI-enabled workflow automation
• Work closely with engineering teams to design and implement solutions using LLMs and related AI technologies
• Build business cases and demonstrate ROI through clear metrics on efficiency gains, cost reduction and risk improvement
• Run rapid experimentation cycles to validate approaches and iterate based on real-world performance
• Establish best practices and frameworks that can be scaled across the organisation
• Communicate progress and insights to executive stakeholders

What We're Looking For

You're an experienced product manager who has successfully delivered AI products into production. You combine strong technical understanding with commercial acumen and the ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments.

Must-haves:

• Production AI experience : You've shipped products using large language models, built retrieval systems, and understand the practical challenges of getting AI into production
• Technical depth : Comfortable discussing model evaluation, prompt engineering, system architecture, performance trade-offs and integration patterns with engineers
• Business impact focus : Track record of quantifying and delivering measurable outcomes; can build compelling cases for investment and navigate senior stakeholder conversations
• Delivery orientation : Pragmatic, action-biased approach; comfortable working without extensive support structures and able to drive progress across multiple workstreams
• Product management fundamentals : Strong discovery, prioritisation and stakeholder management skills

Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in financial services or highly regulated environments
• Background in process automation or operational transformation
• Ability to mentor and build capability in teams new to AI product development

The Environment

• Expect a dynamic, high-trust culture where you'll have real ownership over outcomes
• Direct engagement with senior leadership and cross-functional teams
• Collaborative working style with experienced technical and delivery professionals
• Opportunity to shape how AI is adopted across a significant organisation
• Fast decision-making with space to experiment and learn

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to work on genuinely transformative AI applications with clear business impact. You'll be joining at a point where your work will directly influence how the organisation approaches AI adoption, and you'll have the backing to move quickly and prove what's possible.

If you're someone who gets energised by turning AI potential into practical reality, thrives on seeing your work drive real change, and wants to operate with unusual levels of autonomy and impact, this could be an excellent fit.

This role is being managed by StudioVentures on behalf of our client.