Job Description

Location: London – Hybrid (2 days onsite per week)

Contract Type: Full- Time, Permanent position

About the team

Bauer Media Audio is Europe’s largest commercial broadcast radio and digital audio company, operating across nine markets in Northern Europe. We are a leader in delivering high-quality audio content, digital services and innovative advertising solutions to millions of listeners.

To remain at the forefront of our industry, we have established the AI Joint Capability Team (JCT), an internal, start-up-style hub driving AI excellence across Bauer Audio. The team works in partnership with colleagues across the business to identify opportunities for AI, build tools that fit the way people work and support their adoption across all nine markets.

Job purpose

We are looking for an AI Product Manager with strong UX and UI skills to join the AI JCT at Bauer Media Audio. This is a hands-on product builder role: you will take AI products from an identified user need through to a well-designed, working tool in the hands of colleagues across our markets.

You will work as part of a team that manages one or more AI products, working day to day with AI engineers to deliver them, and you will shape how those products look, feel and work, turning user needs into clear, intuitive interfaces and products that people want to use. You will gather and refine requirements, test ideas quickly through prototypes, support rollout and adoption across markets, and use feedback and usage data to keep improving what we build.

The ideal candidate combines solid product management experience with excellent UX and UI craft and a good understanding of AI technologies.

Key duties and responsibilities

Product ownership and delivery

• Act as Product Manager for one or more AI products, owning the backlog and contributing to the roadmap in collaboration with the Senior Product & Delivery Manager.
• Turn user needs into clear, testable requirements and user stories, prioritising them based on user value, effort and technical feasibility.
• Work day to day with AI engineers to deliver against requirements, taking part in agile ceremonies such as stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives, and testing and signing off what is built.
• Prototype ideas quickly, including with AI tools, to test concepts with users before committing engineering effort.
• Define how success will be measured for your products, and use usage data and user feedback to guide improvements.

User research and requirements

• Run user research, usability testing and workshops to understand how colleagues work today and where AI can help.
• Work with teams across Bauer Audio markets to gather and refine requirements, ensuring products meet user needs and work across multiple markets.

UX and product design

• Own the end-to-end UX and UI design of multiple products, from user journeys, flows and wireframes through to interactive prototypes and polished, production-ready interfaces.
• Apply strong UI craft (visual hierarchy, typography, layout, colour and accessibility) to create products that are clear, consistent and easy to use.
• Design for how people interact with and trust AI, for example conversational interfaces, handling uncertainty and errors, and keeping the user in control.
• Maintain a consistent design language and reusable components across our AI tools, in line with Bauer brand guidelines.
• Hand over clear design specifications and review what is built to make sure it matches the intended design.

Rollout and adoption

• Support the rollout of AI products across markets, adapting the approach to local needs.
• Deliver training sessions, demonstrations and guidance that help colleagues understand and get value from the tools.
• Share progress, insights and feedback with stakeholders through regular updates.

Job requirements

Personal skills

• Strong stakeholder management skills with clear and confident communicator, in writing, in person and when presenting.
• Able to work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Strong organisational skills, with the ability to manage several priorities at once.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing situations.
• A strong sense of craft and attention to detail, with a genuine passion for creating great user experiences.

Social skills

• Unwavering commitment to ethics and integrity, especially in the fast-evolving digital media landscape.
• A strong active listener.
• Ability to build strong professional relationships and foster trust with diverse groups of stakeholders.

Leadership skills

• Able to take ownership of a product area and drive it forward with minimal supervision.
• Confident guiding non-technical colleagues through new tools and concepts.
• Able to influence and collaborate within a cross-functional squad without direct authority.

Work experience

• Proven experience as a product manager or product owner delivering digital products, ideally including AI-enabled products.
• Proven experience in UX or product design, with a portfolio showing an end-to-end design process (research, flows, wireframes, prototypes and polished UI).
• Experience managing tasks from product backlogs and prioritising features based on user needs and technical feasibility.
• Experience working in agile teams.
• Experience designing products where AI is a significant component (for example conversational or generative interfaces) is desirable.
• Experience with video, motion, animation and micro-interactions is a plus.

Methodical competences (incl. IT/language skills)

• Strong analytical skills, comfortable using data to inform decisions.
• Good understanding of AI technologies, including what current AI models and tools can and cannot do.
• Strong proficiency in design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma).
• Familiarity with product management tools (e.g. Jira, GitHub).
• Hands-on use of AI tools in your own work, for example for prototyping, research or writing requirements.
• Fully fluent in English.

Education

• Degree in a relevant discipline is beneficial.

Key relationships

Internal: Senior Product & Delivery Manager, AI engineers and the wider AI JCT, content and creative teams and stakeholders across all nine markets, Bauer brand and design teams.

External: AI and design tool vendors where relevant.

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About Bauer Media Group

We are a media business focused on creating content that matters to millions of people across Europe. Our offering extends from print and online publishing to audio broadcasting and entertainment, alongside investments in other media related sectors. With more than 500 million copies sold each year, we are one of Europe’s largest Publishers. From women’s and celebrities’ magazines to TV listings to food and special interest, we own some of the most popular publishing brands in Germany, UK, Poland and France – both digital and print. But not only that. Reaching over 61 million listeners weekly, we operate over 150 radio and podcast brands in nine countries, spanning the UK, Ireland, Poland, Slovakia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Norway and Portugal. Family-owned in the 5th generation, Bauer Media focuses on the long-term, with a consumer-first mindset that guides us across our diverse portfolio. Our workforce of 12,000 shares a common purpose: to deliver content and services that enrich people‘s everyday lives.

What’s in it for you

• You’ll have 28 days holiday, bank holidays & 2 volunteer days to use.
• Your development matters, so access to our internal training provider – Bauer Academy, is a huge win.
• We have enhanced Maternity/Adoption, Paternity and Shared Parental Leave Pay.
• You’ll have the opportunity for flexible working.
• And much more! Find the full details of our benefits here

We are an international employer and equal opportunities are important to us. That's why we welcome everyone in their uniqueness, regardless of e.g. religion, gender, skin color, disability in our house.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or a long term health condition, and need us to make any reasonable adjustments or do anything differently during any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing careershub@bauermedia.co.uk

We are actively recruiting for this position, so the job advert may close earlier than expected.

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