AI Product Development Manager

Job Location: Manchester, UK

Job Location Type: Hybrid

Job Contract Type: Internship

Job Seniority Level: Entry level

Office Locations: Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds, Bolton, Southport, Newcastle, Reading, Birmingham, Northampton, and Cambridge

Hybrid working available – with the flexibility to work from home and collaborate in‑office when needed. We believe we offer our colleagues the best hybrid and flexible working practices, balancing working from home with time collaborating and socialising with colleagues in our modern offices.

The existing AI team is distributed across London, Manchester, Liverpool, Cambridge, and Bristol. We typically meet in person three to five days per month in offices in either Manchester or Liverpool.

Fletchers Group have a fantastic opportunity to join our growing Team. We’re looking for an Associate Product Manager to join the AI team at Fletchers to support the internal development and delivery of AI tools into the business, and to help take these to the wider industry. The existing team is small but growing, so this person will have a range of responsibilities with the potential to grow the role over time.

You’ll be working alongside our existing Product team but with your own sub‑projects and components to develop and deliver. In the near‑term, you will be focussed on planning, designing, managing, and driving the deployment of our core tools into the business; ensuring they work effectively, refining the technical elements, and working with the relevant front‑line teams of lawyers and nurses to make sure they deliver on our business objectives and improve our performance.

In addition, you will support the ‘discovery’ element of product development for individual components of our toolkit, by working with senior stakeholders, front‑line users, and the technical team to build and test proof of concept (PoC) for the next wave of products. With guidance from the Product team, your role will span the entire product lifecycle: from process analysis and ideation, through the technical and UI design, to delivery, training.

It will be important to have a strong grasp of the technical aspects of the products we are building (and to have a sense of what AI can do in the industry). This is also likely to be more important as AI tools for prototyping and software development improve.

The role will require strong communication skills to work effectively with our legal colleagues and front‑line users, and to guide our data science and engineering teams in their development work. You will also need strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, to make sense of complex and unstructured data relating to our processes and product trials, and to be able to calculate the financial value these products could have for our business and the wider industry.

You will then be responsible for driving the adoption, feedback collection, and improvement of our tools, which will require a hands‑on change management effort and face‑to‑face collaboration with our colleagues and end users – so excellent communication is key.

We think the ideal candidate will be self‑driven and good at getting things done, have strong problem‑solving skills, be able to communicate effectively with a broad range of people, and like coming up with innovative solutions to business problems. They will be happy challenging existing processes and the status quo, and enthusiastic about the change technology can bring to people’s lives.

Since we’re a small team with a big vision, they will also need to be a self‑starter, and have a strong sense of ownership over the work they do. It would be desirable but not essential to have experience of working in a consultancy environment, working in collaboration with clients to meet their needs, solving technical problems, and managing stakeholder relationships.

In Return Fletchers Offers:

• 35 hours working week
• Bonus scheme (subject to targets being met)
• 35 days holiday a year including bank holidays and Christmas Closure, you also have an option to purchase up to 3 extra days’ holiday per year, until you long service award the 3 days after your 5th, 7th, and 9th full year of employment
• Pension scheme with tax‑efficient salary sacrifice option
• Life Assurance Policy
• Medicash policy to cover some dental, optical and other medical expenses
• Company sick pay
• Enhanced Maternity, Paternity and IVF schemes
• Flexible, agile working environment with a positive work‑life balance
• Varied calendar of funded company social events
• Monthly voucher awards for winning nominees
• A genuinely supportive and friendly culture
• Ongoing training and professional development opportunities

Requirements For The Role:

• 2:1 or above in a Bachelor's degree or higher, in a STEM‑related subject
• Professional experience, in a role where you can demonstrate stakeholder management