About the Role
As AI Product Lead, you will shape and implement the AI product strategy, governance and roadmap for Sizewell C. This is a unique opportunity to establish how AI is adopted, governed, and scaled across a nationally significant programme. You will own the end-to-end AI product portfolio, from opportunity discovery and business case development through to governance, adoption and value realisation. You will ensure AI products are aligned to business priorities, deliver measurable outcomes, and meet the highest standards for security, transparency, safety, and compliance. Working in partnership with the AI Engineering Lead, you will shape an outcome-driven AI roadmap, prioritise investment, oversee AI governance, and help establish AI as a strategic capability across Sizewell C.
Responsibilities
- Shape and implement the AI product strategy, governance and roadmap for Sizewell C.
- Own the end-to-end AI product portfolio, from opportunity discovery and business case development through to governance, adoption and value realisation.
- Ensure AI products are aligned to business priorities, deliver measurable outcomes, and meet the highest standards for security, transparency, safety, and compliance.
- Shape an outcome-driven AI roadmap in partnership with the AI Engineering Lead.
- Prioritise investment in AI products.
- Oversee AI governance.
- Help establish AI as a strategic capability across Sizewell C.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of AI and machine learning concepts, products and market developments, with the ability to apply them to complex business problems.
- Experience leading AI, digital or data products in complex organisations, from opportunity assessment through to operational adoption and value realisation.
- Experience establishing governance, controls and assurance processes for digital, data or AI products in regulated or risk-sensitive environments.
- Experience evaluating software vendors and third-party technology products, including commercial, governance and risk considerations.
- Ability to work effectively with AI engineering and delivery teams, with sufficient technical understanding to challenge, prioritise and guide product decisions.
- Knowledge of responsible AI, model assurance, adoption, product performance management and lifecycle governance.
- Be part of one of the most important low-carbon energy projects in the UK.
- Work in a mission-driven environment that values innovation, integrity, and long-term sustainability.
- Competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and opportunities for career development.
- Flexible and hybrid working options.
- Recognise the value brought from different cultures and experiences.
- Be open to other’s points of view and ideas, be willing to debate and to compromise.
- Positively challenge poor quality and performance.
- Identify solutions at the lowest possible level.
- Encourage tier 1s and others to bring new ideas forward.
- Value the rules and environment in which we operate.
- Give and receive feedback with respect.
- Embrace and engage with new people and ideas.
- One team, working closely together and helping each other.
- Empowered teams always looking forward.
- Shared responsibility for delivery the project outcomes.
- Communicate clearly and consistently.
- Promote collaboration and team alignment.
- Clearer and faster decision making.
- Drive simplification at all levels.
- Must have the right to work in the UK.
- Must meet the criteria for Security Vetting, which ordinarily requires UK residency for at least three of the past five years.
Skills
- AI
- Machine Learning
- Product Management
- Governance
- Roadmap Development
- Value Realisation
- Security
- Transparency
- Safety
- Compliance
- AI Engineering
- Responsible AI
- Model Assurance
- Product Performance Management
- Lifecycle Governance
- Microsoft AI ecosystem
- Enterprise AI tooling
Location
- London
- Suffolk
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Experienced product leader
- Dependant on experience
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive dependant on experience
Benefits
- 28 days annual leave per annum, increasing to 30 days after 5 years of service, plus bank holidays.
- 5% annual bonus.
- Defined Contribution Pension Scheme with up to 7.5% employee contribution 15% employer contribution.
About the Company
- Sizewell C’s business is to design, finance, construct, commission, operate, maintain, and eventually decommission the nuclear power plant and related infrastructure at Sizewell C in Suffolk.
- The Company is maturing to meet all requirements.
- Sizewell C is economically regulated by OFGEM under the RAB model similar to other UK electricity distribution networks and Thames Tideway.
- Sizewell C construction strategy is to replicate the design of Hinkley Point C, using the majority of the same supply chain, but innovating in the way it is delivered to achieve savings in time and cost of around 20%.
- Following Financial Completion and Revenue Commencement, Sizewell C is fully funded and is owned by; The Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero representing HM Government, La Caisse, Centrica, EDF and Amber Infrastructure.
- Sizewell C is entering an exciting phase of growth as we mature into an independent organisation and continue building one of the UK’s largest and most important energy projects.
- When joining Sizewell C, you may wonder why you are contacted by colleagues with an EDF email or see the EDF logo on portals that you access and/or documentation you receive; this is because we have partnered with EDF for the provision of a number of support services whilst we complete a successful transition out of the EDF group.
Equal Opportunity
- At Sizewell C we encourage and embrace diversity and how it can improve our experience and performance at work.
