Senior AI Product Strategist for Incubator Portfolio, Limerick

The Digital and AI Product Strategist will own product excellence across the DMI incubator portfolio. This role sets product standards, governs venture discovery and MVP quality, and ensures that every idea has a credible path to customer value, traction, and spin-out.

It is a portfolio-level leadership role spanning strategy execution, venture validation, and product governance.

Key Responsibilities

Own the

product vision, standards, and operating model

across all incubated ventures

Define what“good” looks like for:

MVP scope

Act as final product sign-off before ventures progress to next stage

2. Venture Discovery&Validation

Partner with Strategy Lead and Operations to:

Identify high-potential problems worth solving

Pressure-test ideas before engineering investment

Lead early discovery:

Value proposition and use‑case definition

Kill weak ideas early and decisively

3. Product Definition&Oversight

Ensure AI is used

appropriately, responsibly, and commercially , not as a novelty

Work closely with tech innovation team to:

Balance model ambition vs. speed to market vs cost

Oversee:

Success metrics and learning loops

Line-manage and mentor Product Leads

Discovery

Roadmapping

Metrics

Build product capability within the incubator over time

Support client proposals and scoping

Requirements gathering

5. External&Executive Interface

Act as the

senior product voice

with:

Funders and board‑level stakeholders

Lead high‑impact demos and narrative‑driven product storytelling

Represent the incubator externally as a credible AI product authority

Required Experience

10+ years in

senior product leadership

Proven experience delivering

AI / data‑driven products

(ML, GenAI, analytics)

Strong background in:

Cross‑functional leadership (engineering, data, design)

Comfortable operating across:

Ambiguity

Early‑stage, high‑uncertainty environments

Nice to Have

Experience in regulated or complex domains (e.g. health, finance, aviation)

Exposure to venture building, accelerators, or startup environments

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