Product Owner Manager
Crowe
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.
Job Description:
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here:
At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you for who you are, care for your well-being, and nurture your career. Everyone has equitable access to opportunities for career growth and leadership. Over our 80-year history, delivering excellent service through innovation has been a core part of our DNA across our audit, tax, and consulting groups. That’s why we continuously invest in innovative ideas, such as AI-enabled insights and technology-powered solutions, to enhance our services. Join us at Crowe and embark on a career where you can help shape the future of our industry.
About Crowe AI
Everything we do is about making the future of human work more purposeful. We do this by leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning, generative AI, modern architectures, and industry experts to create AI-powered solutions that transform the way we do business.
Our world-class AI and ML professionals give Crowe the ability to capture and harness the power of data. A combination of Machine Learning Engineers and AI Platform and Infrastructure Engineers create and deploy AI functionality to solve complex problems. We focus on building scalable AI products, based on rigorous data exploration, validation via proof-of-concept buildout, and close partnership with subject matter experts across business areas. The future is powered by AI; come build it with us.
About the Team
We foster good science. You are given the time and resources to build your expertise in your project and beyond; you will guide fellow MLEs and product stakeholders through your work.
We want to make good scientists better. MLEs have plenty of options on the job market. We want to be one of the best. We have regular ethics and book club meetings, monthly lightning talks where team members teach each other, partnerships with companies like OpenAI and Claude, and weekly “10P” independent time for ongoing learning.
Responsibilities
Facilitation of meetings with business stakeholders to refine project objectives and demonstrate preliminary results.
Assist the team and work closely with stakeholders to identify and prioritize AI use cases, guiding them in aligning these with their business objectives and ensuring feasibility from both a functional and technical perspective.
Demonstrate the viability of potential solutions and seek to disprove assumptions through data exploration, experimentation, and lightweight Proof of Concept builds.
Create user stories, testing requirements, and supporting documentation, in addition to the thorough analysis and validation of requirements to minimize ambiguity and support effective collaboration across development teams.
Engage with your team to derive realistic effort estimates, embracing the iterative nature of early-stage AI development.
Serve as the liaison between the functional team and the technical development team, ensuring that stakeholder requirements are accurately translated into technical specifications and that the solutions delivered meet expectations.
Assist in the functional aspects of AI projects, including timelines, resource allocation, and deliverables, ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget.
Communicate with internal and external stakeholders, providing updates on project status, risks, and opportunities.
Assess and improve the methodologies and tools used by the functional team to enhance stakeholder engagement and project outcomes.
Measure value and impact created by our AI products not only after execution but beforehand.
Engage in professional learning within the constantly evolving AI landscape.
Requirements
3+ years in a business-facing role, with demonstrable involvement in AI or advanced analytics initiatives.
Experience with Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jira, or other SDLC tools.
Experience leading agile methodologies utilizing scrum ceremonies.
Understanding of product/software development cycles; basic knowledge of MLOps or AI product development is advantageous.
Preferred Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO).
Intermediate-level AI or data certifications.
Business analysis credentials (e.g., CCBA – Certification of Competency in Business Analysis).
Required Skills
Proven experience creating artifacts and documenting requirements for software projects, ensuring that business, user, functional, and non-functional requirements are clear, concise, testable, and traceable.
Ability to build and maintain client relationships, ensuring high levels of client satisfaction.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on aligning AI solutions with business needs.
Preferred Skills
Experience with Azure services, particularly Azure AI, Machine Learning, and Cognitive Services.
Familiarity in prompt engineering and with tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude.
Experience with DevOps practices and tools within the Microsoft environment.
Familiarity in a professional services environment.
We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.
Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
C3 India Delivery Centre LLP formerly known as Crowe Howarth IT Services LLP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.
We expect the candidate to uphold Crowe’s values of Care, Trust, Courage, and Stewardship. These values define who we are. We expect all of our people to act ethically and with integrity at all times.
Our Benefits:
At Crowe, we know that great people are what makes a great firm. We value our people and offer employees a comprehensive benefits package. Learn more about what working at Crowe can mean for you!
How You Can Grow:
We will nurture your talent in an inclusive culture that values diversity. You will have the chance to meet on a consistent basis with your Career Coach that will guide you in your career goals and aspirations. Learn more about where talent can prosper!
More about Crowe:
C3 India Delivery Centre LLP formerly known as Crowe Howarth IT Services LLP is a wholly owned subsidiary of Crowe LLP (U.S.A.), a public accounting, consulting and technology firm with offices around the world. Crowe LLP is an independent member firm of Crowe Global, one of the largest global accounting networks in the world. The network consists of more than 200 independent accounting and advisory firms in more than 130 countries around the world.
Crowe does not accept unsolicited candidates, referrals or resumes from any staffing agency, recruiting service, sourcing entity or any other third-party paid service at any time. Any referrals, resumes or candidates submitted to Crowe, or any employee or owner of Crowe without a pre-existing agreement signed by both parties covering the submission will be considered the property of Crowe, and free of charge.