Syensqo.AI - SyGROW Product Owner

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Job title: Syensqo.AI – SyGROW Product Owner

Syensqo initiated a fundamental transformation and this transformation positioned digital technologies as key drivers to make it happen. It requires us to change the way we operate and leverage the tremendous amount of knowhow, knowledge, structured and unstructured datasets that today exist in the Group.

Syensqo has decided to create a startup team, Syensqo.ai, dedicated to the AI and Generative AI domain. By taking this role, the Product Owner will join this team right at its inception. Its mantra is simple: deliver value, with speed and agility while taking no compromise on compliance, ethics, guardrails or regulations. The Product Owner will contribute to the growth and development of this startup, while keeping a very sharp focus towards the delivery of prioritized items. In the current business, macroeconomic and climate crisis context, time of execution will be of the essence.

SyGROW is our flagship AI-powered engine, designed to revolutionize commercial strategy by empowering our teams with actionable insights, opportunity generation, and customer engagement tools. As we accelerate our journey to become an AI-driven commercial organization, SyGROW is at the heart of this transformation.

You will join the SyGROW team as one of two Product Owners, each responsible for owning and delivering a distinct part of the SyGROW platform. In this role, you will co-lead the development and evolution of the SyGROW Engine, working in close partnership with your fellow Product Owner to ensure seamless integration and maximum value for our commercial teams. Operating at the intersection of business, technology, and data, you will translate commercial growth ambitions into a robust, user-centric AI platform. Reporting to the Change Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of Syensqo’s commercial operations through shared ownership, effective collaboration, and a unified product vision.

Key Responsibilities:
- Backlog Ownership & Prioritization: Co-own, refine, and prioritize the SyGROW product backlog in close collaboration with the other SyGROW Product Owner. Ensure all items are clear, actionable, and aligned with the product vision set by the Product Manager. Jointly lead backlog grooming and oversee Agile governance to balance immediate needs with long-term objectives, ensuring seamless coordination across shared and distinct areas of responsibility;
- Stakeholder Engagement & Requirement Translation: Act as the primary contact for commercial, technical, and business teams. Gather, clarify, and translate user needs into detailed requirements and user stories, ensuring the backlog reflects real business challenges and opportunities;
- Feature Delivery & Quality Assurance: Define acceptance criteria, validate deliverables, and ensure features meet business needs and quality standards before release. Own the “definition of done” for all backlog items;
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with the Product Manager to ensure alignment with the overall product vision and strategy. Collaborate with AI architects, tech leads, Business teams and data teams to ensure technical feasibility, scalability, and sustainability of features;
- Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement:Track and report on feature adoption, user satisfaction, and business impact using defined KPIs and OKRs. Use insights to reprioritize the backlog and drive continuous product improvement;
- Market & Technology Awareness:Stay current with AI and digital trends relevant to commercial growth, ensuring SyGROW remains innovative and competitive;
- Change Management & User Adoption: Partner with change managers to support user training, communication, and adoption activities, ensuring new features are effectively introduced and embraced by commercial teams;
- Value Delivery: Direct all development activities to maximize business value and enhance user experience within the commercial ecosystem;
Agile Team Leadership: Facilitate effective communication and coordination within the Agile team, ensuring clarity on priorities and progress. Actively participate in Agile ceremonies (daily scrums, sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives).

Key Stakeholder Interactions:
- Commercial Teams: Act as the main interface with commercial users to deeply understand their day-to-day challenges, gather detailed requirements, and collect feedback on delivered features. Ensure their needs are accurately reflected in the product backlog;
- Product Manager: Maintain regular alignment with the SyGROW Product Manager to ensure backlog priorities and feature development are consistent with the overall product vision, strategy, and business objectives.
Development & Technical Teams: Collaborate closely with AI engineers, data scientists, architects, and developers to clarify requirements, answer questions, and ensure smooth, efficient delivery of prioritized features;
- Compliance: Liaise with compliance teams to ensure all deliverables meet Syensqo’s standards for security, data governance, and Responsible AI;
- IT & Data Governance: Coordinate with IT and data governance teams to address integration needs, data quality, and technical sustainability of new features.

Education and experience:
Specific Knowledge/Experience:
- Minimum of 5 years of experience working with B2B Sales & Marketing digital domain;
- Proven track record of managing end-to-end lifecycle of complex software products;
- Experience in Agile development methodologies, particularly SCRUM;
- Strong understanding of AI technologies and their application in business processes is highly desirable. Ideally experience in AI product development in B2B Sales & Marketing domain;
- Experience in Data platform & architecture management;
- Prior experience in stakeholder management, including gathering and prioritizing product requirements and developing product roadmaps;
- Experience in monitoring product performance metrics and making data-driven decisions.

- Proven experience in product ownership, ideally with a focus on AI or technology/data products;
- Strong understanding of generative AI technologies (e.g., GPT, Mistral, Gemini…) and their applications;
- Excellent verbal / written communication and collaboration skills;
- Proficiency in using project management and collaboration tools (e.g., JIRA, Trello);
- Strong organizational & time management skills, with a self-starting, entrepreneurial mindset;
- Team player and leader capable of bringing people together toward a common goal;
- Proven ability to translate business and non-functional requirements into refined user stories with clear acceptance criterias that developers can work with;
- Being value & data driven (OKRs and KPIs) to validate the roadmap to management.
CSPO or PSPO I certification; 
- Fluent in English (proficient in French is preferred);
- Exceptional strategic thinking, analytical, and problem-solving skills;
- Creativity, curiosity and a passion for innovation and technology.

Note:
While the above experience is ideal, we also welcome applications from candidates with strong business backgrounds in B2B Sales & Marketing who demonstrate a high learning agility, a passion for digital transformation, and a willingness to develop product ownership skills. For such candidates, a tailored training and onboarding plan may be provided to support their transition into the Product Owner role.

Skills and behavioral competencies:
- Provide “Think 10X” on the roadmap to understand where Syensqo can leapfrog existing mindset/processes to unlock value and de-risk our strategy.
- Act with a hunters mindset;
- Excellent leadership and communication skills, with the ability to inspire teams and stakeholders;
- Strong at building relationships, setting collective accountability and resolving conflicts at a quick pace.

Additional information:
Location: Bollate, italy
Remote work: possible

Be part of and contribute to a once-in-a-lifetime change journey in Syensqo!

About us

• Syensqo is a science company developing groundbreaking solutions that enhance the way we live, work, travel and play. Inspired by the scientific councils which Ernest Solvay initiated in 1911, we bring great minds together to push the limits of science and innovation for the benefit of our customers, with a diverse, global team of more than 13,000 associates. Our solutions contribute to safer, cleaner, and more sustainable products found in homes, food and consumer goods, planes, cars, batteries, smart devices and health care applications. Our innovation power enables us to deliver on the ambition of a circular economy and explore breakthrough technologies that advance humanity.
• At Syensqo, we seek to promote unity and not uniformity. We value the diversity that individuals bring and we invite you to consider a future with us, regardless of background, age, gender, national origin, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, ability or identity. We encourage individuals who may require any assistance or accommodations to let us know to ensure a seamless application experience. We are here to support you throughout the application journey and want to ensure all candidates are treated equally. If you are unsure whether you meet all the criteria or qualifications listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply.