AI Product Strategy Lead

Job Description

**The Planet Group has partnered with a Greater Philadelphia area company to locate an AI Product Strategy Lead for a contract role.**

This is a
hybrid role
and requires candidates who can be onsite three days (3) in the Great Philadelphia area. H1B’s are welcome but must be willing to transfer a visa after an initial contract portion.
**Please do not apply if you are not already local to the Philadelphia area.**

Our client is expanding its efforts to transform how developers build software by embedding intelligent tooling into everyday workflows. This role sits at the intersection of
**business strategy, applied AI, and hands-on engineering.**
You will partner closely with Product, Engineering, and Investment stakeholders to identify high-impact AI opportunities, rapidly prototype solutions, and guide adoption across teams.

**Responsibilities:**

– Partner with product, engineering, and investment stakeholders to identify where AI and GenAI can create meaningful business value.
– Translate business challenges into practical AI-driven solutions that improve workflows, decision-making, and operational efficiency.
– Rapidly prototype, test, and iterate on ideas to validate feasibility and business impact.
– Turn successful experiments into clear recommendations and support engineering teams with scaling and implementation.
– Use modern GenAI tools, automation frameworks, and cloud-based AI services to create working demos and reference solutions.
– Help teams adopt AI-enabled ways of working, including AI-assisted development, testing, documentation, and workflow optimization.
– Act as a trusted advisor to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, explaining AI capabilities, limitations, and tradeoffs.
– Influence AI adoption across teams while ensuring alignment with enterprise architecture, security, and governance standards.
– Support a culture of experimentation, learning, and responsible AI usage

**Required Skills and Experience:**

– A minimum of Five (5) years in technology-focused roles involving software, data platforms, analytics, or automation.
– Bachelors in Computer Science or other relevant field is required. Masters degree is preferred
– Practical, hands-on experience applying AI, GenAI, or intelligent systems to real-world business problems.
– Prior work within investment management, capital markets, trading platforms, or other highly data-driven financial domains.
– A track record of taking early-stage ideas, building quick experiments, and turning them into clear, validated recommendations.
– Comfort working directly with modern AI tooling and cloud-based services to explore and demonstrate new capabilities.
– A solid grasp of how modern engineering teams operate, including development lifecycles, tooling, and delivery practices.
– Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to guide decisions and influence outcomes without formal authority.

**Preferred Skills:**

– Experience using AI or automation to improve business operations, analytics workflows, or decision-support systems.
– Familiarity with AI-powered developer tools or productivity platforms that accelerate software delivery.
– Exposure to financial services environments with strong regulatory, security, or compliance expectations.
– Understanding of investment data, market structures, or ETF-related processes and systems.
– Experience navigating governance, risk, and responsible-use considerations when introducing new technology.
– Comfort working in complex enterprise environments where collaboration and influence matter as much as technical skill

Interested candidates can apply by clicking on the link.