Your job

• Drive and own the strategic roadmap of Festo's AI Virtual Assistant, balancing business impact with technical feasibility.

• Define and prioritize features that create measurable value for internal stakeholders and customers across the globe.

• Work closely with development teams to shape architecture, technical direction, and implementation plans.

• Lead the evolution of AI capabilities including agentic workflows, automation features, and next-generation Virtual Assistant experiences.

• Engage deeply with user groups and business units to understand needs, extract insights, and translate them into powerful platform functionality.

• Collaborate with engineering, UX, and data science to ensure robust, scalable, cloud-native delivery.

• Define and monitor product KPIs and metrics and drive continuous improvement to elevate the Virtual Assistant to the next performance level.

Your profile

• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager with a strong balance of business orientation and technical depth.

• Solid hands-on understanding of cloud platforms (AWS or similar), APIs, data flows, and modern software architectures.

• Strong knowledge of AI technologies, including LLMs, agentic frameworks, and workflow-orchestration capabilities.

• Ability to challenge engineering and influence architecture decisions while keeping user value and business outcomes at the center.

• Customer‑ and business‑oriented mindset, able to identify opportunities, drive adoption, and translate needs into product value.

• Experience working in agile environments and collaborating with cross-functional teams.

• A proactive mindset, passion for innovation, and drive to push AI products to industry-leading levels.

• Proficiency in English; knowledge of Spanish and/or German is a plus.