Principal Product Owner, AI

Location: Woking, United Kingdom; office-based in the UK, with remote work considered for the right candidate. Occasional business travel of up to 10–15% is required.

Company

IDBS, a hirify.global operating company, provides software and services for scientific research, data management, and drug development across the life sciences, diagnostics, and biotechnology sectors.

What you will do

• Own the AI product backlog and define outcome-focused user stories with probabilistic acceptance criteria, including grounding thresholds, citations, latency limits, and refusal behavior.
• Build evaluation datasets, regression gates, and quality metrics for retrieval and generation, including recall, groundedness, hallucination rate, and citation coverage.
• Lead sprint planning, backlog refinement, and Program Increment planning with ML engineering, data engineering, UX, and product enablement teams.
• Coordinate ingestion, metadata promotion, and data contracts across ELN, spreadsheet, inventory, and platform data.
• Govern permission-aware retrieval, tenant isolation, GxP and 21 CFR Part 11 compliance, token economics, latency, and per-tenant quota usage.
• Validate guided AI scenarios with pilot customers and convert feedback into product improvements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Science, Engineering, or a related scientific or technical field.
• Multiple years of experience as a Product Owner or Technical Product Manager delivering software products in Agile, Scrum, or SAFe environments.
• Hands-on experience defining specifications for RAG, vector search, semantic retrieval, or LLM-driven software features.
• Practical experience delivering software subject to strict enterprise data governance, tenant isolation, or regulatory and compliance standards such as GxP, 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 27001, or equivalent.
• Ability to author technical user stories, acceptance criteria, and non-functional requirements covering latency, throughput, and cost or token bounds for engineering and data science teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with life sciences informatics, including ELN, LIMS, CMC, or laboratory data management platforms.
• Familiarity with AWS Bedrock, OpenSearch, Databricks, or Model Context Protocol tool integrations.
• Experience operationalizing automated AI evaluation harnesses and prompt-testing pipelines, such as Ragas, TruLens, or custom benchmark suites.

Culture & Benefits

• Work within IDBS and hirify.global’s continuous-improvement culture focused on scientific and life sciences impact.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, UX, domain science, and customer teams.
• Office-based UK role with remote work considered for the right candidate.
• Occasional business travel of up to 10–15% for planning events, customer visits, or company meetings.