Product Analyst, AI Adoption & Use-Case Development

Job Description

This role sits at the intersection of business needs and AI product capability. The Product Analyst is the person who takes a business team from 'we've heard about our AI products' to 'we can't imagine working without them.' Working closely with the Product Manager/Builder and directly with business stakeholders, you own the full arc: discovering use-cases, running PoCs, enabling adoption, and feeding real-world evidence back into the product roadmap. Your work is what turns a product into a platform.

Did you feel a hit of dopamine? Yes? Then keep reading.

You combine strong analytical instincts with real stakeholder credibility. You know that adoption doesn't happen by accident - it takes structured discovery, honest PoC design, and sustained enablement long after launch day.

Key Responsibilities

• Use-Case Discovery & Business Analysis: Engage directly with business teams to understand their workflows, pain points, and unmet needs - going beyond what they ask for to find the underlying problem worth solving. Document use-cases with rigour: goals, success metrics, constraints, assumptions, and what 'good' looks like before work begins. Prioritise use-cases in partnership with the Product Manager - balancing business value, product fit, and adoption feasibility

• Requirements & Feature Definition: Translate business use-cases into clear, structured requirements and user stories that engineering and design can act on. Work with the Product Manager to define and refine AI features - including what the model should and should not do in each use-case context. Ensure requirements reflect the realities of working with LLM-based systems: manage stakeholder expectations about AI capabilities, variability, and appropriate confidence thresholds

• Onboarding & PoC Management: Plan and run onboarding of new business use-cases onto the core AI platform - from first briefing through to live usage. Coordinate PoCs with clear scope, success criteria, and timelines. Structure each PoC as a learning exercise, not just a demo - what hypothesis are we testing and how will we know? Track PoC progress, surface risks early, and communicate status transparently to stakeholders and the Product Manager

• AI Product Adoption & Change Enablement: Own the adoption arc for each use-case: training, enablement materials, live support during rollout, and proactive check-ins in the first 60 days. Collect structured feedback from users and business teams - tracking where the product is delivering value and where friction or distrust is limiting use. Work with Product and Change/Communication teams to design adoption interventions - because a well-built product that nobody uses is still a failure

• Productisation of Use-Cases: Evaluate PoC outcomes against pre-defined success criteria and make a clear recommendation: productise, iterate, or stop. Define what's needed to move from a successful PoC to a robust, reusable capability in GPTeal: scalability, governance, support model, documentation. Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations to integrate the use-case into the standard product offering - so the next team to onboard benefits from everything the first team learned

• Continuous Improvement & Product Feedback Loop: Monitor usage, engagement, and business impact of live use-cases - distinguishing between 'adopted' and 'used once and abandoned.' Feed structured evidence from use-cases - user friction, missing capabilities, recurring patterns - back to the Product Manager to inform the product roadmap. Identify patterns across use-cases that point to reusable components, shared prompts, or configuration templates that reduce onboarding effort for future teams

• Reports to: Product Manager/Builder

• Works closely with: Product Manager/Builder, Engineering, UX/Design, Business Stakeholders, Change & Communication, Data & Analytics

Requirements

• 2+ years of experience in a product, business analysis, change management, or consulting role - with direct exposure to technology products and end-user adoption challenges

• Direct experience with AI-powered tools - practical understanding of LLM capabilities, limitations, and the human factors that determine whether adoption succeeds or fails

• Deep understanding of product and business analysis craft: use-case framing, requirements writing, outcome-based success metrics, and structured stakeholder engagement

• Hands-on experience with AI-powered tools (as user, analyst, or enabler) - practical understanding of where LLMs add value and where they need guardrails

• Ability to manage stakeholder expectations for AI-based systems: variability, confidence thresholds, and what the model should and should not do

• Strong ability to synthesise qualitative feedback and usage data into clear product insights - using AI-assisted tooling where it accelerates, not replaces, judgment

• Exceptional communication skills - translates between business language and product/technical language without losing either audience

• Proficiency in product and collaboration tools (Jira, Confluence, Mural) and comfort adopting AI-native discovery and synthesis tools

• Organised and structured - can manage multiple use-cases in parallel, track adoption health, and surface risks before they become blockers

• Bachelor's degree in any field. Practical experience and demonstrated learning in product, data, or AI disciplines valued over credentials

• Demonstrated continuous learning in AI/ML product space - courses, published work, shipped products, or equivalent practical experience

This role is for someone who wants to be at the front line of AI adoption - not just watching it happen, but making it happen. If you care about whether the products you work on actually get used, this is your seat.

What We Offer

• Exciting work in a great team, global projects, international environment

• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally

• Hybrid working model, flexible role pattern

• Pension and health (Canadian Medical) contributions

• Internal reward system plus referral program

• 5 weeks annual leave, 5 sick days, 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually, 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities, 12 weeks of parental contribution

• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers, sport, culture, health, travel, etc.), Multisport card, Vodafone, Raiffeisen Bank and Foodora discount programs

• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone, parking in the garage, showers, refreshments

• Competitive salary, incentive pay, and many more

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