Sr. AI Product Owner

Sphera·India·Onsite

Lead Product ManagerSaaSEnterprise

Experience

8–10 years

Employment

Full Time

Work mode

Onsite

Level

Lead Product Manager

Location

India

Posted

4 days ago

About the role

Sphera is a leading global provider of enterprise software and services that enables companies to manage and optimize their environmental, health, safety and sustainability. Our mission is to create a safer, more sustainable and productive world.

Sphera is a portfolio company of Blackstone, a U.S.-based alternative asset investment company that focuses on private equity, technology and innovation, and more. Blackstone businesses succeed through strong partnerships, a personalized approach and a commitment to exceptional performance with uncompromising integrity. Sphera and Blackstone are leaders in the Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) space.

We are guided by our core values of Customer Centricity, Accountability, Bias to Action, Innovation, and Collaboration. These values help us recruit the right talent to join our rapidly expanding team around the globe. It is important to us that each and every Spherion is not only eager to challenge themselves and knows how to get work done but is an awesome addition to our company culture.

You'll be part of the Sphera AI Center of Excellence team, owning the AI CoE roadmap — what the CoE builds, in what order, for which part of the business, and at what cost. You will run the intake and prioritization of AI opportunities across the enterprise, sequence them into a delivery roadmap, and hold the program accountable for value delivered.

This is a senior, highly visible role. You will present the roadmap, portfolio status,

What you'll do

Own the AI CoE roadmap end to end: intake, evaluation, prioritization, sequencing, and delivery milestones across all AI initiatives and pods.
Run the AI opportunity intake process — capture requests from across the business, assess feasibility, impact, effort, and risk, and make transparent prioritization calls that stakeholders understand even when the answer is no.
Own the portfolio view: solution status, cost, and return, tracked consistently across initiatives and refreshed on a predictable cadence.
Act as product owner for AI CoE deliverables — backlog, requirements, acceptance criteria, release sequencing — for agents, enablement assets, internal tooling, and shared AI capabilities.
Present roadmap, portfolio health, adoption, and business value to the Executive Leadership Team and program sponsors; quantify cautiously, surface risks early, and bring decisions rather than status.
Define and own the measurement framework across activity, capability, and business-outcome tiers, including cost-per-outcome and ROI for delivered solutions, and hold the line against vanity and surveillance metrics.
Manage delivery partners and vendors against an explicit ownership map — scope and SOW, named points of contact, communications cadence, content-review turnaround, milestone gates, and off-ramp terms.
Protect the transition from vendor-delivered to Sphera-owned: ensure every partner-delivered component has a named internal owner shadowing it from the start, so nothing stalls when an engagement ends.
Tie the roadmap to corporate OKRs and departmental needs, and work with each function to define what success looks like in their terms.
Own the governance interface with InfoSec, Legal, and Compliance — acceptable use, risk classification, access model, and audit requirements — and keep the governed path the fastest path.
Run the program's operating rhythm: steering meetings, status, risk and dependency management, budget and license forecasting, and the decision log.
Maintain the feedback loop from field signal, usage data, surveys, and champion input into roadmap and prioritization changes.

Nice to have

Running a Center of Excellence, transformation office, or similar enterprise shared-services function.
Company-wide platform migration or tooling rollout across multiple regions.
Familiarity with AI governance frameworks — EU AI Act, NIST AI RMF, or ISO 42001.
Portfolio and roadmap tooling, and building executive-facing dashboards and reporting.
Agile certification (CSPO, SAFe PO/PM) or program management credentials (PMP, PgMP).
Domain exposure to EHS, sustainability, ESG, or industrial risk.
$127,000.00 - $203,000.00 + Eligible for Variable Compensation Plan