Senior Technical Product Manager at Conquer AI, London Area, £Contract Rate (Outside IR35)

Technical Product Manager | Contract | Client Site 4 days | Day Rate Outside IR35

About Conquer AI

Conquer AI is an elite enterprise AI consultancy building and deploying production ready AI systems for large corporate clients across the UK, US, and South America. This role sits within a client engagement, embedded on site, owning the product direction of an AI initiative from within Conquer AI's delivery team

The Role

We are hiring a Technical Product Manager to sit inside a client organisation and own the product roadmap for an AI driven product or platform. This is not a generalist PM role. The person needs enough technical depth to challenge engineering decisions, understand LLM and agentic system constraints, and translate business requirements into a buildable, sequenced roadmap. They will act as the bridge between Conquer AI's delivery engineers and the client's stakeholders

Core Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for an AI system in active development or scale up
• Translate client business requirements into clear, prioritised technical specifications
• Work directly with AI engineers on architecture trade offs, model selection, and delivery sequencing
• Run discovery with client stakeholders to define scope, success metrics, and constraints
• Manage backlog, sprint planning, and delivery cadence in partnership with engineering leads
• Communicate progress, risk, and trade offs to client senior stakeholders
• Identify opportunities to expand or improve the AI product post launch
• Lead the transformation of legacy software and processes toward modern, AI enabled systems, managing the risk and change control that comes with replacing entrenched platforms

Hard Requirements

• Proven Technical Product Manager experience, around 8+ years, with several years on AI, ML, or LLM powered products
• Track record of transforming or modernising legacy software systems, including managing the risk, sequencing, and stakeholder politics of replacing entrenched platforms
• Deep understanding of asset management, finance, or banking, able to speak the language of the business without it being translated, and to challenge assumptions from a position of credibility
• Strong enough technical fluency to read architecture diagrams, understand API design, and discuss model behaviour, latency, and evaluation trade offs with engineers
• Experience running full product lifecycle: discovery, roadmap, backlog, delivery, post launch iteration
• Comfortable operating embedded within a client organisation, representing Conquer AI professionally
• Strong stakeholder management, able to hold a room of senior client stakeholders
• Based in the UK and able to commit to full time on site

Strong Preference

• Experience with agentic systems, RAG, or LLM orchestration products specifically
• Background working in a consultancy or professional services delivery model
• Direct experience at an asset manager, bank, or financial services institution, rather than just adjacent exposure
• Prior experience as an engineer or technical lead before moving into product

What Good Looks Like

You've shipped AI products, not just planned them, and you've dragged legacy systems into the modern world without breaking the business along the way. You can sit in a room with engineers and hold your own on architecture trade offs, model behaviour, and delivery constraints, without needing everything translated for you. You understand asset management, finance, or banking well enough to challenge the business case, not just take the brief at face value. You've run discovery with senior stakeholders and walked out with a scope that actually holds. You know the difference between a roadmap that looks good in a slide and one that survives contact with a sprint. You're comfortable being the only Conquer AI person in the room representing the delivery, and you back yourself in front of a client's leadership team.

Please note: I personally review every CV, message, and email I receive regarding our vacancies. While I carefully read each one, I am unfortunately unable to reply to everyone individually due to the volume of applications. Thank you for taking the time to apply and for your interest in working with us. Your effort is genuinely appreciated.