Data & AI Product Owner

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices. Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional. We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind‑set we aim to bring to every interaction. Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere. We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

Your Role

• Manages the delivery and operations of technology services for a Linklaters product, helping to ensure alignment with business objectives and the Firm's wider Technology Strategy.
• Collaborates with cross‑functional teams and internal customers, supporting the development of the service roadmap and helping to implement data‑driven solutions to enhance operational efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Supports the Data & AI Product Lead in driving the strategic vision, ensuring delivery milestones are met and acting as a key contributor to programme‑level planning and execution.
• Acts as a key liaison with the Generative AI Steering Committee, providing regular updates, facilitating decision‑making, and ensuring stakeholder alignment across initiatives.
• Owns the operational oversight of a Data & AI product, ensuring alignment with business priorities and the Firm’s Technology Strategy across sprints and planning cycles.
• Shapes the long‑term service vision in collaboration with senior stakeholders, ensuring it addresses cross‑practice needs and contributes to the Firm’s data and innovation agenda.
• Partners with senior stakeholders, including Partners and functional leads, to surface unmet needs and define high‑value use cases that inform the product roadmap.
• Leads the development and continuous refinement of the service roadmap and backlog, applying prioritisation frameworks to balance competing demands and deliver measurable business value.
• Oversees the end‑to‑end lifecycle of AI MVPs — from scoping and piloting through to production deployment — ensuring robust governance, traceability, and risk mitigation.
• Maintains a strategic view of external market trends in Data, AI, and LegalTech, advising internal stakeholders on opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
• Prepares and presents strategic updates, risk assessments, and product performance reports to senior leadership and SteerCo audiences with clarity and influence.

About You

• Professional experience in product ownership, product management, or business analysis roles within data or AI‑driven settings.
• Demonstrable experience contributing to the successful delivery of AI or data‑focused projects in a cross‑functional team environment.
• Understanding of AI/ML concepts and data architecture, including experience working with data pipelines and data platforms.
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, including sprint planning, backlog grooming, and working with tools such as Jira and Confluence.
• Proven ability to translate business needs into actionable product requirements and support a roadmap’s development.
• Experience with data governance, legal technology, or enterprise data solutions is highly desirable but not essential.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to assess complex data to make informed decisions and recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to simplify technical concepts for non‑expert audiences.
• An interest in emerging AI technologies and trends, with a commitment to continuous learning and professional growth.

Our Benefits

• Health & Wellbeing: Private Medical Insurance, Free in‑house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships, Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments.
• Finance: Pension and flexible savings options, Income protection and life assurance, Mortgage advice and will‑writing services.
• Family & Lifestyle: Electric car and cycle to work schemes, Emergency family care, Additional holiday/birthday leave, Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave, Travel insurance and season ticket loan, Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks).

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive. It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.

This is the place where talent meets opportunity and where passion meets purpose. At Linklaters, the work we do means carving a path through unexplored territory, working on complex legal matters, across jurisdictions and borders and providing outstanding service and confidence to our clients. Having the vision to see things differently and the determination to deliver excellence, every time. That’s what makes us who we are. You can see your true potential connecting with dynamic colleagues all over the world, united by purpose and shared values and working together as one inclusive, collaborative team. With second to none training and support, this is the place where you meet your future. This is Linklaters.

In the event that we make an offer to you, and where local legislation permits, we will conduct pre‑engagement screening checks that may include but are not limited to your professional and academic qualifications, your eligibility to work in the relevant jurisdiction, any criminal records, your financial stability and references from previous employers. Your offer will be subject to the successful completion of these checks which will be initiated following your consent.

As a responsible business, it is important that we represent the diversity of our people, our clients and our communities. We know that diversity makes us a better law firm and helps us attract the best talent, drive innovation with diversity of thought, and deliver the best experience to everyone who comes into contact with us. We recruit on the basis of merit, irrespective of age, disability, gender, gender identity, race or ethnicity, marital status, religion, sex, sexual orientation or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Selection decisions, and the reasons for those decisions, are recorded at each stage of the selection process. Selection criteria and, where appropriate, technical skills tests are in place to measure an individual’s ability for the safe and effective performance of a job. Those involved in recruitment and selection decisions and processes are also provided with guidance on diversity issues.

If you require reasonable adjustments to be made during the selection process, please talk to a member of the recruitment team so that any required adjustments can be made in advance.

Specific experience requirements advertised on a role do not intend to preclude applications from candidates who may have more or less experience. Our intention is only to indicate a guideline as to the necessary skills for the role as described.