NextGen AI Manager
EY
Software Engineering, Data Science
Wrocław, Poland
NextGen AI Manager
Location: Wrocław - 2 days office/3 days remote
Let us introduce you the job offer by EY GDS Poland – a member of the global integrated service delivery center network by EY.
The opportunity
A manager for the Next-GenAI team serves as a strategic conduit between engineering pods, client-facing professionals, and governance stakeholders. This role is pivotal in shaping AI prototypes and pilots by owning the backlog, driving sprint-based delivery, and ensuring strong compliance and review alignment. The manager partners closely with account teams to test pilots with clients and quantify value through rapid iteration. The role ensures clear executive communication through demos, updates, and release narratives while proactively managing risks, dependencies, and trade-offs.
Applied Innovation's Next Frontier focuses on emerging technologies, including Physical AI, Quantum Computing, and Next-Generation AI amongst others. This initiative translates advanced capabilities into measurable outcomes, helping clients and EY teams improve decision-making, strengthen resilience, and unlock new opportunities through technology-driven solutions.
The Next-Generation AI team helps EY teams turn emerging AI capabilities into practical, secure, and governable solutions. The team builds small, high-fidelity prototypes to test what AI can realistically do before decisions on scale or production are made. We work closely with EY teams to translate real business and engineering pain points into rapid, value-focused prototypes.
Your key responsibilities
Product & Delivery Leadership
- Own the lifecycle of AI prototypes, pilots, and MVPs, ensuring delivery against defined milestones and value metrics.
- Coordinate cross-functional pods, managing dependencies across engineering, governance, and client-facing teams to enable timely execution.
Value-Driven Experimentation & Innovation
- Lead rapid, governed experimentation to validate where next-generation AI capabilities deliver measurable impact.
- Translating business and engineering pain points into scoped pilots, clear requirements, and prioritized backlogs.
- Guide prototypes from concept to pilot through structured iteration and evidence-based decision making.
Team Enablement & Execution
- Work closely with engineers and designers to evolve prototypes into high-fidelity pilots that balance feasibility, compliance, and speed.
- Establish strong delivery rhythms through sprint planning, backlog refinement, and continuous feedback loops.
Stakeholder & Client Engagement
- Partner with client-facing professionals to test pilots with customers and validate real-world outcomes.
- Communicate progress, risks, and results through executive-ready updates, demos, and release narratives, escalating issues early with clear options and trade-offs.
Analytical/Decision Making Responsibilities
- Examine new AI methods and delivery patterns to determine where they are feasible, responsible, and worth piloting.
- Apply governance, security, and compliance requirements consistently across the experiment-to-delivery lifecycle, ensuring alignment with EY processes.
- Use evidence and outcome signals to make timely trade-offs, re-prioritize work, and steer teams toward the highest-impact results in a fast-moving environment.
Skills and attributes for success
- Background in regulated domains.
- Experience running pilots and driving change management in client environments.
- Tools & stack you may touch:
- Backlog/Delivery: Azure DevOps
- Analytics: BI dashboards
- Platforms: Azure OpenAI endpoints (familiarity; hands-on not required) - Collaboration: Teams/SharePoint
- 6+ years in product leadership, consulting, or program delivery, 12+ years overall
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex business processes into clear requirements and ability to manage engineering teams at pace and operating at a great cadence.
- Familiarity with GenAI concepts and enterprise constraints (privacy, security, etc).
What we offer
EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) is a dynamic and truly global delivery network. We work across nine locations – Argentina, Hungary, India, the Philippines, Poland, Sri Lanka, Mexico, Spain and the United Kingdom – and with teams from all EY service lines, geographies and sectors, playing a vital role in the delivery of the EY growth strategy. From accountants to coders to advisory consultants, we offer a wide variety of fulfilling career opportunities that span all business disciplines. In GDS, you will collaborate with EY teams on exciting projects and work with well-known brands from across the globe. We’ll introduce you to an ever-expanding ecosystem of people, learning, skills and insights that will stay with you throughout your career.
- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next.
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way.
- Transformative leadership: We’ll give you the insights, coaching and confidence to be the leader the world needs.
- Diverse and inclusive culture: You’ll be embraced for who you are and empowered to use your voice to help others find theirs.
About EY
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If you can demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.
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