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ADay in the Lifeof the EMEA AI Product Owner:

You’ll begin your day translating business needs into technical requirements, prioritizing features in the backlog, and overseeing the AI product lifecycle to ensure successful, ethical, and valuable implementations. Key responsibilities include defining success criteria, collaborating with data scientists and engineers, and bridging the gap between business goals and AI capabilities.

You will work on initiatives like AgentForce AI, PACE and other new AI opportunities in the region.

You will collaborate with the AI Product Managers, Data Engineering, Platform, Architecture, and Governance teams to clarify data contracts, schemas, lineage, and access models, ensuring each increment is production-ready and guided by design. You’ll groom the roadmap and write user stories to add to the backlog, break down epics, refine acceptance criteria, and balance new features with technical debt, observability, and cost efficiency. You’ll demo recent increments, gather user feedback, and turn it into testable stories that enhance usability, trust, and performance. You’ll brief sponsors on the value delivered and present investment options for the next phases.

Your role is more technically demanding, requiring an understanding of AI technologies and ethical considerations. You must navigate challenges like data privacy and compliance with data protection regulations. Additionally, you will manage AI bias by providing diverse datasets for model training and using bias detection mechanisms to monitor AI outputs.

On a monthly rhythm, you’ll coordinate with global data and architecture forums to reuse patterns, converge on standards, and ensure EMEA needs are represented in the enterprise roadmap.

As a champion of the data strategy & enablement team, you will drive adoption through excellent product experience - discoverability in the catalog, clear documentation, and dependable service levels that help teams selfserve trustworthy, governed data at scale.

The role:

Reporting to the Product Ownership Sr Manager, the EMEA AI Product Owner is accountable for the dayday delivery of data products

You will translate business outcomes into product capabilities, manage scope and trade

Success requires a blend of AI technology expertise, stakeholder leadership, and hands-on ownership to deliver secure, compliant solutions for the EMEA region.

Key Responsibilities:

• Backlog ownership & delivery: Convert outcomes into prioritized epics/stories, lead refinement and planning, uphold DoR/DoD, balance features with reliability, observability, cost, and sustainability.
• Value & metrics: Establish VIPs/KPIs/OKRs (adoption, time‑to‑data, data trust, NPS, ROI); run quarterly value reviews, iterate the roadmap based on evidence.
• Privacy and Data Governance by design: Embed privacy, security, quality, and lifecycle controls (policies, lineage, access models, retention, auditability) into every increment, ensure GDPR compliance and data residency adherence.
• Platform leverage & reusability: Reuse enterprise platforms, patterns, and reference architectures, drive reusability and scale across markets while meeting country‑specific requirements.
• Stakeholder & change leadership: Communicate clearly at all levels; manage dependencies and risks, prepare business cases, Investment Board inputs, release notes, and adoption communications.
• Incident, risk & release management: Triage issues, lead RCA, and prioritize preventative fixes, plan releases and change controls, coordinate rollbacks/hotfixes where needed.
• Enablement & adoption: Publish documentation, examples, and learning paths, champion catalog discoverability, access requests, and community channels.
• Financial stewardship: Own product budgets/forecasts, track benefits realization and ROI, report performance and outcomes to sponsors and Finance partners.
• Global alignment: Partner with global product, platform, and architecture teams to align roadmaps, share learnings, and represent EMEA needs and impact.

What you will need:

• Bachelor’s in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 7–10+ years across product management/ownership, data platforms, analytics, or digital strategy. Experience in medtech, pharma/consulting is a plus.
• Strong understanding of AI, machine learning, and data science concepts. Proven success delivering AI products from concept to scaled adoption. Strong understanding of ethical AI considerations.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Experience in defining product roadmaps and requirements.
• Familiarity with AI tools and a data-driven approach.
• Strong grasp of data privacy (GDPR), regulatory frameworks, security, and AI ethics.
• Expert backlog management, story writing, acceptance testing, and agile delivery at scale (Scrum/Kanban).
• Excellent communication and facilitation, able to influence executive, technical, and non‑technical audiences.
• Technical fluency and eagerness for continuous learning in Data & AI capabilities and products.

What do you offer:

• Ownership mindset with high accountability for user satisfaction and product reliability.
• • Pragmatic product instincts: you simplify, focus, and drive value creation and delivery of AI products
• • Learning agility and curiosity about emerging capabilities and responsible ways to apply them.

What do we offer:

• A chance to drive innovation by delivering meaningful AI solutions across the EMEA region.
• A collaborative, global network and supportive coaching culture focused on your growth.
• Opportunities to lead high‑

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 Assist with driving your store’s profitability by:

• Meeting or exceeding store sales and profit targets
• Managing resources within the store to provide customers with a leading shopping experience
• Driving the proper execution of established policies, procedures, initiatives, and directives

Key Accountabilities:

 Utilizes all available store and market data to make commercial decisions based on sound analysis and financial judgment.

 Creates and drives a service culture by ensuring all activities are centered on the consumer.

 Positively communicates and actively demonstrates the Brand Values and NAM Retail Mission.

 Implements strategic plans to deliver seasonal Brand and product training to own store and ensures knowledge is transferred into selling skills.

 Partners with General Manager to lead store HR planning, recruitment, on boarding, training, and development initiatives in own store while actively assisting in succession planning process and ensuring all HR policies and procedures are adhered to.

 Leads service by example and ensures highly visible and effective consumer service management at all times.

 Communicates a desire to learn and seizes all available opportunities to drive own development and increase performance.

Knowledge, Capabilities and Experience:

 Must possess and consistently exhibit the competencies relative to the position.

 Excellent Skills in operating personal computers, POS systems, and various software packages including MS office.

 Knowledge and understanding of profit and loss statement and store KPIs to make commercial decisions based on sound financial judgment.

 Strong interpersonal and communication skills including the ability to lead discussions in diverse groups of varying size.

 Excellent time management and problem-solving skills as well as the ability to use good judgment and make strong independent decisions.

 Well-developed ability to speak, read, comprehend, and write English

 Ability to maintain reliable and consistent attendance and punctuality.

 Ability and willingness to travel by car and air domestically.

 While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.

 Ability to work for long periods of time, typically 10-12 hours per day during peak seasonal periods.

Qualifications (Minimum required education and experience):

 Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a retail environment with a minimum 18 months of Store Management experience.

 Experience in managing high level retail image and delivering consumer in-store experience

 Geographical mobility is preferred.

 Or equivalent combination of education and experience

Please Note:

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at adidas means championing individual uniqueness and cultivating a culture of belonging in which everyone can create at their best.  We embrace diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives and seek to create a workforce that reflects our consumers and communities.

• adidas offers robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage. Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match. Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• The pay scale for this role is$60k – $122k.This range represents the anticipated low and high end of the pay range for this position. Actual salary will be based on various factors, such as a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies, and proficiency for the role.

• Employees are eligible to earn ​an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.​ Employees accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount ​.3512​ hours per day that increases with years of service, 7​ paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.

• Though our teammates hail from all corners of the world, our working language is English.