Hybrid Lead Product Manager – AI Modernization

at Theodo UK

• Job title: Lead Product Manager – AI Modernization
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: No Education Requirement
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Paris, France

About the role

• Lead Product Manager for AI modernization projects, responsible for product strategy, delivery coordination and long-term client value. Permanent role based in Paris at Theodo.

Responsibilities

• As a Lead Product Manager, you drive complex product initiatives by owning the product vision, orchestrating delivery, and ensuring value creation for both the client and the teams.
• Define and champion the product strategy with the client: value modeling, product architecture, EPICs, trade-off decisions and technical-functional alignment.
• Ensure successful delivery by coordinating multiple squads to deliver complex projects on time, within budget and with the expected level of quality.
• Create the conditions for team success by defining the right set-up (Theodo teams or partners), negotiating the required resources and adapting the organization to the project’s constraints.
• Provide visibility and clarity through appropriate governance mechanisms to align all stakeholders.
• Guarantee long-term client satisfaction by building a relationship of trust, identifying new opportunities and collaborating with Sales, Staffing and People teams.

Requirements

• Graduate of a top engineering school with more than 5 years of professional experience, including at least 4 years in product management (Senior PM / Lead PM / Head of Product), in a startup, systems integrator (ESN) or consulting firm.
• Strong interest in designing products with significant business impact, with a tech affinity and solid technical knowledge on the subject.
• Excellent interpersonal and client skills: able to build trust, communicate with top-management stakeholders and comfortable in large-enterprise contexts.
• Client-first posture: available, responsive, attentive, able to prioritize the client, incorporate feedback, anticipate needs and manage sensitive situations.
• Strong negotiation and management skills: active listening, effective questioning, ability to challenge, manage conflict and deliver demanding feedback calmly and clearly, within a collective improvement mindset.
• Strong desire to learn and grow; able to challenge their team, ask for help and accept being challenged.

Benefits

• Employee share ownership to be part of the company’s success.
• Employee savings plan with a profit-sharing mechanism in partnership with Epsor.
• Equipment budget to kit yourself out (laptop, smartphone, headphones, etc.).
• Benefits provided by our Works Council (CSE): sports with Gymlib, theatre with Kiosk, various discounts with Happypal.
• 5 weeks of paid vacation plus 8 to 12 RTT days per year.
• Health insurance (SideCare) with 50% employer contribution.
• Swile meal card.
• Assistance and reserved nursery places.