Product Owner with Remote Travel

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Product Owner to join our AI Solutions team in a client-facing, US-based role. This is a high-visibility, high-impact position at the intersection of product strategy, market intelligence, and enterprise sales enablement. The ideal candidate brings deep product management experience in IDP, AI/ML or SaaS platforms, exceptional communication skills, and the ability to translate client needs and competitive insights into a clear, executable product roadmap.

You will serve as the face of EXL’s Agentic IDP Solution – Xtrakto.AI, while working closely with engineering, design, and business teams to continuously evolve our capabilities.
 

What We Offer

• Opportunity to build and shape the product strategy of a high-growth, AI-native enterprise platform.
• Direct exposure to Fortune 500 clients across Insurance, Healthcare, and Banking sectors.
• Collaborative, global team with cutting-edge investment in Gen AI/ML
• Comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, 401(k) with company match, and flexible PTO
• Access to ongoing learning resources, conference budgets, and professional certifications.

Responsibilities:

Roadmap Creation & Engineering Collaboration

• Own and maintain the EXL Xtrakto.AI product roadmap, ensuring it reflects client needs, competitive benchmarks, and strategic business goals.
• Write clear product requirements and user stories with well-defined acceptance criteria that engineering teams can execute against.
• Work closely with engineering leads in sprint planning, backlog grooming, and release planning to ensure timely and high-quality delivery of roadmap items.
• Define and track key product KPIs and use data to inform roadmap prioritization.
• Facilitate go-to-market readiness for new feature releases including release notes, training materials, and client communication plans.

Conference & Thought Leadership

• Represent at industry conferences, clients, partners and events through presentations, panel discussions, and live demos.
• Develop and deliver compelling thought leadership content including white papers, blog posts, webinars, and speaking session materials that position EXL Xtrakto.AI as a leader in IDP.
• Actively engage with analyst communities to improve awareness and product positioning in the IDP market.

Competitive Intelligence & Market Analysis

• Conduct ongoing competitive analysis of IDP and AI document processing across Enterprises.
• Develop and maintain a competitive landscape matrix covering features, pricing, integrations, vertical focus, and go-to-market strategies.
• Translate competitive intelligence into actionable differentiation strategies, battle cards, and positioning frameworks for sales and marketing teams.
• Monitor market trends in AI/ML, LLMs, and document intelligence to identify emerging threats and opportunities.

Feature Gap Identification & Product Discovery

• Systematically gather product feedback from client engagements, conference interactions, support escalations, and win/loss analyses to identify gaps in Xtrakto’s feature set.
• Conduct user research, customer interviews, and usability studies to deeply understand end-user workflows and pain points.
• Prioritize feature gaps using a structured framework considering client impact, competitive parity, strategic value, and engineering effort.
• Collaborate with design and engineering teams to validate proposed solutions through rapid prototyping and pilot programs before full-scale development.

Presales & Client Engagement

• Serve as the product spokesperson in the US market, presenting the platform’s capabilities, roadmap, and value proposition to prospective and existing enterprise clients.
• Lead product demonstrations, discovery workshops, and proof-of-concept discussions with C-suite and technical stakeholders
• Partner with sales and pre-sales teams to craft tailored narratives and respond to RFPs, RFIs, and client due diligence requests.

Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of AI/ML concepts, document processing and multi-modal workflows; hands-on experience with IDP platforms is a significant advantage.
• Proven experience managing enterprise B2B software products with demonstrated ownership of product roadmaps and release cycles.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills with the ability to engage confidently with both technical teams and executive stakeholders.
• Experience conducting competitive analysis and translating findings into actionable product strategy.
• Exposure to LLM-based document processing, Cloud, or Generative AI features in enterprise products.
• Experience in one or more of EXL’s target verticals: Insurance, Healthcare, Banking, or Financial Services.
• Proficiency in designing user stories, and functional specifications that engineering teams can act on.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver results in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
• Willingness to travel within the US for client meetings, conferences, and industry events (up to 30%).