PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION: As Product Owner, Digital Innovation at China Digital Hub, you will play a critical role in leading the digital innovation and evolution especially in AI area. You are responsible for exploration, development, evaluation, and implementation of AI use cases, and translation of business opportunities and challenges into tangible AI applications to accelerate the operation efficiency and support the new business growth engine with cutting-edge technologies and break-through transformation thru AI capabilities. <div style="border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0.0in 0.0in 1.0pt 0.0in"> </div> KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Strategy & Value Delivery <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be accountable for AI projects landing and experiments using agile and design thinking methods, from conception to realization. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Responsible for bridging between business, Tech and external AI partners to foster mutual understanding and alignment of AI capabilities and business requirements. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif">Responsible for measuring, interpreting, and communicating the impacts of generative AI solutions in the context of relevant financial and operational metrics, to ensure transparency and insights into the value and performance of AI initiatives.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be able to lead the delivery with agile or hybrid model with internal and external combined delivery team. </li> </ul> Stakeholder Management <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Fostering strong relationships with key stakeholders and partners in AI industry</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Ensure proper requirements are captured and translated into the product backlog </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Work as one team with tech delivery task forces to guarantee high-quality deliverables with proper velocity. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Work closely with CDH peers for the same business growth objective</li> </ul> Backlog Management <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Prioritize the items in your innovation backlog. Specify the definition-of-done in cooperation with the product team. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Own the refinement of your product backlog to ensure that the platform team is delivering the right enhancements as well as new capabilities to drive consumer and business value. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Provide acceptance for delivered backlog items by the team, in line with the definition-of-done. </li> </ul> Monitoring <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be accountable for monitoring, optimization and enhancement of the configuration, features and functionalities related to the business domain solutions. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be able to define reasonal measurments for the platform performance from business perspective and lead platform evolving according to data insights. </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Be accountable for value taking-in-place and on-going tracking and monitoring. </li> </ul> KEY RELATIONSHIPS: <ul style="margin-bottom:0.0in;margin-top:0.0px"> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">GCA Digital cross functions</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">GCA cross functions, e.g., Sales, Brand Marketing, Tech, Finance</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Global Digital team</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">External partners/vendors</li> </ul> KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: Education & Experience <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Bachelor’s degree and above in Computer Science, Data Science or related fields.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">4+ years of professional experience in leading AI projects and are adept at applying agile and design thinking methods </li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in AI product adoption in real business scenarios</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience with a deep understanding of AI-driven business models are preferred.</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Experience in creating strong internal business cases to support investment and internal resource requests </li> </ul> Hard-Skills <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Advanced retail or e-Commerce domain knowledge e.g., ecom operation, content, post-order service</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Strong understanding and hands-on experience of AI solutions (agent build, platform tools and etc.)</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good understanding of project management skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good data analysis skill in pre/post case study: python or coding skills is a big plus</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good understanding of project management skills</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Fluent in English both verbally and written </li> </ul> Soft-Skills <ul style="margin-top:0.0in;margin-bottom:0.0in"> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Good communication skills and comfortable presenting to stakeholders</li> <li style="margin:0.0in 0.0in 0.0in 0.0px;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif">Solutions-oriented approach and results oriented </li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Self-Starter with a strong sense of urgency and a positive “can do” attitude</li> <li style="margin-right:0.0in;font-size:12.0pt;font-family:'Times New Roman', serif;margin-left:0.0px">Agile and MVP mindset</li> </ul>

Product Owner, Digital Innovation (Shanghai, SH, CN) @ adidas

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