# AI Product Owner

**Company**: Southern Company
**Location**: Atlanta, GA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Energy

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## Description

The AI Product Owner role is responsible for driving the execution of AI-enabled use cases across the Customer Solutions organization at Southern Company. This position acts as a bridge between operating company business stakeholders, data and technical teams, translating customer experience priorities into actionable requirements. The goal is to ensure successful delivery of AI solutions that drive measurable customer and business outcomes.

### Responsibilities

- Define product vision and roadmap, shaping and prioritizing solution capabilities and agentic AI use cases based on enterprise value, feasibility, and risk.

- Lead execution of prioritized AI use cases across multiple teams and operating companies.

- Translate outcomes into delivery-ready requirements, converting business and operational needs into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria aligned to AI platform standards.

- Balance innovation with governance, ensuring responsible AI, security, and regulatory considerations are embedded into product scope and delivery decisions.

- Own backlog and prioritization, managing and continuously refining the product backlog, balancing near-term wins with foundational platform investments.

- Partner across delivery roles, working closely with AI Architects, AI Engineers, and ML Ops Engineers to align scope, sequencing, and technical trade-offs.

- Drive adoption and value realization, defining success metrics, overseeing pilots, and guiding scaling of AI solutions across operating companies.

- Act as primary stakeholder interface, serving as the point of accountability for executive sponsors, business owners, and governance forums.

### Requirements

#### Domain Expertise

- Experience owning technical projects, products, or platforms in enterprise environments.

- Understanding of AI and agentic AI capabilities, limitations, and delivery patterns.

- Familiarity with data, analytics, and AI governance models, particularly in regulated industries.

- Familiarity with customer experience, customer analytics, or customer research domains.

- Experience working in large, matrixed, or multi-business unit organizations.

- Knowledge of utility operations, enterprise systems, or digital transformation initiatives is a strong plus.

#### Individual Skills

- Minimum of 5 years of experience owning leading technical products, platforms, or large-scale initiatives.

- At least 3 years of experience in AI Product Manager or AI Project Manager.

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.

- Strong judgment in prioritization, balancing value, risk, and technical complexity.

- Ability to align and synthesize diverse stakeholder inputs into a coherent product direction.

- Clear, structured communicator comfortable engaging senior leaders and translating between business and technical audiences.

- Outcome-oriented mindset with a focus on measurable business and operational impact.

#### Technical Skills

- Ability to engage in architectural and design discussions without being the primary implementer.

- Experience writing clear product requirements for AI-driven systems, including non-functional requirements (security, reliability, explainability).

- Preferred experience with Databricks, Azure, or any other cloud data platforms.

- Familiarity with Agile and product management practices (roadmapping, backlog management, release planning).

- Comfort interpreting AI performance metrics, adoption signals, and operational dashboards.

## Skills

### Required
- AI
- Agile
- Databricks
- Azure
- Cloud data platforms
- Product management
- Project management
- Artificial Intelligence
- Computer Science
- Data analytics
- Governance models

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