Associate Product Owner, Internal AI

We're not here to add to the noise. We're here to cut through it- with AI that actually works for marketers.

From AI-powered content creation to world-class CMS and the industry's most trusted experimentation platform, Optimizely is the tool modern marketers actually want to use. AI-Ready. Set. Go.

10,000+ brands including H&M, PayPal, and Zoom already get it. So do Gartner, Forrester, and IDC, who consistently recognize us as leaders in MarTech.

But here's the thing about building great products: it takes great people. Our 1,600+ Optimizers across 12 global offices are curious, collaborative, and refreshingly human. We don't do corporate speak. We do real conversations, big ideas, and genuinely care for the work we make together.

If you want to be part of a team that's shaping the future of marketing technology - and actually enjoys doing it - you're in the right place.

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Introduction

The Internal AI Product Team helps departments across Optimizely succeed with AI by shaping strategy, delivering solutions, and building shared capabilities that are safe, scalable, and impactful. As the team has grown, so has the volume of AI work moving through it, across discovery, delivery, and adoption support for every department it partners with. This individual will work closely with the AI Engineering team and Shared Services (Security, Legal, Data, and Compliance) to take ideas from discovery through to delivery and adoption.

Working Hours: Monday to Friday, 2:00 PM - 10:00 PM Dhaka time [Hybrid and flexible]

Job Responsibilities

Product ownership fundamentals

• Develop relationships and build trust with Business Owners.
• Own and prioritise the product backlog for assigned departments, balancing business value, risk, and delivery capacity.
• Lead discovery, full or lite, to confirm requirements, success metrics, and technical feasibility before work is approved.
• Collaborate with the Engineering Team and Shared Services to identify efficient solutions.
• Write clear PRDs and translate them into well-structured epics and stories in Jira.
• Run and contribute to daily stand-ups, weekly prioritisation, and monthly planning meetings.
• Oversee delivery and testing, sign off on demos, and manage handover to business-as-usual.
• Track value delivered against the team's efficiency, effectiveness, revenue, and risk measures.

AI-specific responsibilities

• Keep AI skills current: Stay up to date on AI tools, models, and best practices so guidance to departments reflects what's actually possible today.
• Learn and use Opal: Build working knowledge of Opal to support teams building agents and to identify where it fits a use case.
• Build: Build solutions and agents to solve problems. Build lightweight, working prototypes during discovery to test ideas and validate requirements before committing engineering time.
• Partner closely with engineers: Work day-to-day with the AI Engineering Team through design, build, and testing, not just at handoff.
• Partner with Shared Services: Bring in Data and Analytics, Security, Legal, and Compliance early and proportionately, engaging them when the risk tier calls for it, not on every project.
• Contribute to the continual improvement of the process and ways of working.
• Share your knowledge, learnings, and successes with the wider team and business.

What we expect day to day

• Beyond the specifics above, each Product Owner is expected to do what any strong PO does: understand their departments' goals well enough to spot opportunities before being asked, keep stakeholders informed without over-reporting, write requirements the engineering team can act on without repeated back-and-forth, make sensible trade-off calls under time pressure, and hold a consistent bar for quality and testing before anything ships. They're the person a department head calls first when they have an AI idea, and the person engineering trusts to bring them well-scoped, validated work.

Knowledge and Experience

• Experience: 2+ years in a product, project, business analyst, or similar delivery-facing role.
• AI knowledge: Comfortable using mainstream AI tools and able to explain in plain terms what AI can and can't realistically do for a business problem. They should be able to clearly explain which use cases they have leveraged AI for in their personal lives and how they executed them.
• Technical Skills: Able to vibe-code simple prototypes, understands the basics of prompting, and is familiar with foundational engineering and architecture concepts, such as databases, APIs, and deployments, enough to follow a technical conversation and ask the right questions, not build the thing themselves.
• Core trait: A genuinely curious, analytical mindset. Someone who asks "why" and "what if," digs into a problem before jumping to a solution, and enjoys figuring out how things work.
• Communication: Able to write clearly and talk comfortably with both business stakeholders and engineers.

Education

Bachelor’s degree required, with 2+ years of relevant experience.

Our new, cutting-edge office space in Dhaka is a testament to our dedication to enhancing your work experience. This state-of-the-art workspace features open workstations, a fully equipped kitchen, a nap room for relaxation, a tranquil zen garden, and an entertaining area, all designed to provide you with the ideal environment to thrive and grow.

As part of our commitment to you, here are other benefits and perks you can expect:

• Best-in-class compensation plans
• Two annual festival bonuses
• Recognition and rewards programs
• Vacations days
• Annual Work/Service Anniversary Leave
• Parental leave (both maternity and paternity)
• Health insurance
• Reproductive benefits for both parents
• Volunteering opportunities to make a difference
• Chance to work alongside our incredible global team
• Free communal transport facilities inside Dhaka to and from the office
• Free catered lunch every day

At Optimizely, our standardized language is English, and it is crucial to have good English communication skills to be successful in your global role. All our external and cross-location communication is done in US English (en-us), but internally you can speak in whichever native language you most identify with.

Optimizely is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Optimizely is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

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