Technical Product Owner Internal AI Platform

Job Description

Summary

Rud Pedersen is looking for a Technical Product Owner to own our secure internal AI platform based on LibreChat and help turn the wider AI transformation programme into a practical prioritised product roadmap.

This person will be the named owner for our internal platform: the backlog roadmap release priorities user feedback model/provider decisions governance requirements feature trade-offs integrations success measures and handover into production support. The role is not pure project management and not a strategy-only role. It needs someone who can understand technical constraints make product decisions and work closely with engineers IT security business users and AI Champions.

This role is based in our Bulgaria office and you must have the existing right to work in Bulgaria. You will be working with colleagues across all our European offices.

What you will do

You will own the internal product roadmap and backlog. You will gather requirements from teams across Rud Pedersen translate them into clear product priorities define what should be built next and make trade-offs between user value technical effort security maintainability and governance.

You will work with technical colleagues on LibreChat features model and provider configuration user permissions file handling prompt libraries assistant patterns RAG/knowledge retrieval analytics admin workflows and integrations with Microsoft 365 and other internal systems.

You will define practical acceptance criteria for new features and workflows test releases with real users collect feedback and decide whether something is ready to scale beyond a pilot. You will also maintain product documentation release notes guidance for users and a clear view of known limitations.

You will be a bridge between business adoption and technical delivery. That means understanding use cases from public affairs strategic communications research policy monitoring workshop delivery proposal support and internal operations then shaping them into realistic product increments rather than letting every request become urgent.

Skills & Requirements

Essential experience

• Experience owning or managing a technical product internal platform enterprise tool SaaS product automation platform or AI-enabled product.
• Enough technical depth to work confidently with engineers on APIs authentication cloud platforms data flows integrations security testing and release trade-offs.
• Practical understanding of LLM tools and applied AI use cases ideally including OpenAI Azure OpenAI Anthropic Gemini open-source models LibreChat Open WebUI LangChain LlamaIndex or similar.
• Ability to turn vague stakeholder needs into clear user stories acceptance criteria priorities and delivery decisions.
• Strong understanding of governance permissions sensitive data handling auditability and enterprise adoption risks.
• Excellent written and spoken English with enough confidence to work with senior stakeholders across a European organisation.
• Strong documentation habits and the ability to explain technical choices in plain language.

Useful additional experience

• LibreChat or comparable open-source AI chat platforms.
• Azure Microsoft 365 Entra ID SharePoint Teams Graph API or Microsoft Fabric.
• RAG embeddings vector databases such as Qdrant pgvector Weaviate or Pinecone.
• n8n Make Zapier Power Automate or other workflow automation tools.
• Product analytics user adoption metrics internal enablement training or champion-network support.
• Experience in consulting professional services public affairs communications legal policy or research-heavy environments.

About the company

Rud Pedersen is Europes foremost strategic public affairs firm helping clients to navigate political regulatory and reputational complexity protect value and drive sustainable growth.

With offices across Europe we bring deep local insight alongside a coordinated European perspective. Our teams drawn from all levels of government institutions and industry offer unrivalled political expertise and on-the-ground presence helping organisations engage effectively wherever decisions are made.