Associate Product Owner - AI Platform Team

Company Description

Why Wellmark: We are a mutual insurance company owned by our policy holders across Iowa and South Dakota, and we’ve built our reputation on over 80 years’ worth of trust. We are not motivated by profits. We are motivated by the well-being of our friends, family, and neighbors–our members. If you’re passionate about joining an organization working hard to put its members first, to provide best-in-class service, and one that is committed to sustainability and innovation, consider applying today! 

Why Wellmark Technology? Wellmark is building innovative, modern solutions using cutting edge technology. We are driving organizational transformation and business strategy by empowering our technology team to innovate new and elegant solutions to enhance the customer experience. Together, we are leaning into the future, owning the outcome, and driving organizational change to transform how we work. 

Job Description

The Product Owner for the Artificial Intelligence Platform team is responsible for maximizing the value of enterprise AI platform capabilities and domain-aligned AI solutions delivered by the agile team. This role partners closely with engineering, architecture, analytics, security, legal/compliance, and product stakeholders to define, prioritize, and deliver governed, reusable AI capabilities that enable safe, scalable, and efficient AI adoption across the enterprise. 

This team’s work spans foundational AI platform capabilities and enterprise AI solution delivery. That includes helping shape reusable platform services, standards, templates, and guardrails, while also driving delivery of enterprise domain-aligned AI capabilities that can be leveraged across multiple product teams, business lines, and channels. Success in this role requires balancing business value, technical feasibility, platform reuse, and enterprise requirements for privacy, security, compliance, reliability, and consistency. 

The ideal candidate is a natural problem solver with strong technical acumen who can work effectively across business and technology teams to translate complex needs into clear product direction, prioritize high-value outcomes, and guide delivery of scalable AI capabilities for enterprise use. This role will help drive alignment across federated teams, influence platform and solution strategy, and partner with stakeholders to accelerate AI adoption through reusable, governed, enterprise-ready solutions. 

Job Leveling Note: This role can be filled at an Associate Product Owner or Product Owner level depending on work experience, skills, and demonstrated ability.  We invite you to apply whether you have the minimum experience required described below or if you have much more experience! 

Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Experience supporting or leading product work for AI/ML, Generative AI, platform, or developer platform capabilities in an enterprise environment, including translating customer, client, member, and stakeholder needs into product direction and measurable outcomes. 
• Strong familiarity with AWS services and cloud architecture, especially for secure, scalable, platform-based solution delivery. 
• Strong analytics background with the ability to define meaningful measures of success, evaluate solution performance, and support benchmarking of AI capabilities. 
• Knowledge of non-functional requirements and system performance considerations such as latency, throughput, scale, elasticity, resiliency, reliability, currency, and load characteristics. 
• Experience working with a variety of data stores, data types, and integration patterns used in enterprise solution delivery. 
• Demonstrated understanding of LLMs, machine learning models, Generative AI capabilities, evaluation concepts, and common implementation patterns such as prompt-based solutions, retrieval-augmented generation, and agentic workflows. 
• Experience with observability, monitoring, and operational health for enterprise-grade technology solutions, ideally including AI or data-intensive systems. 
• Experience working in a regulated environment and delivering solutions involving secure user data, privacy controls, compliance expectations, and sensitive/PII data considerations. 
• Ability to partner effectively with engineering, architecture, analytics, security, legal/compliance, and product stakeholders to define reusable capabilities, platform standards, enterprise-ready design patterns, and high-value delivery priorities. 
• Prior experience in a Product Owner role operating within a SAFe and/or agile organization, including backlog prioritization, value measurement, optimization, feature and user story definition, acceptance criteria development, and experience using agile requirements management tools such as Jira