**People

Comms**
**AI**
**Product Lead**
**The Chance**
At Manulife, we are creating AI-powered experiences that enable colleagues to thrive and better support our customers.

Our People

Comms Technology North Star is to make every interaction simple, personalized, connected, and intuitive.

Realizing this ambition requires the right technology, data, integrations, and intelligence to operate as one connected ecosystem.

As the
**People

Comms Ai Product Lead**
you will help shape the solutions behind this future across the broader People

Comms experience ecosystem.

You will translate colleague and business needs into scalable AI-enabled products, connect capabilities across our people technology landscape, and turn emerging possibilities into practical improvements in how colleagues work, grow, and access support.

You will look beyond initial requests to uncover the underlying need, challenge assumptions, assess trade-offs, and recommend solutions that balance colleague value, business outcomes, enterprise safeguards, and technical feasibility.

Success requires curiosity, sound judgment, and the ability to influence decisions through evidence and insight.

Working across People

Comms, technology, and enterprise partner teams, you will bring together colleague feedback, analytics, Human-Centered Design, operational insights, and emerging trends to shape priorities and continually improve the product.

Your impact will be measured by how effectively strong ideas become valuable, sustainable solutions that evolve with colleague needs.
**Key Responsibilities**
Lead discoverywith Global People Services, COEs, knowledge owners, HR SMEs, and business product ownerstodefine thebusinessproblem, desired colleague experience, andhighest-valueAI-enabledopportunities.

Convert approved opportunitiesinto transparent product decisions, requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, andprioritized

Jira backlog items.

Help shape the product vision and roadmap using colleague research, journey insights, service data, business value, dependencies, and delivery feasibility.

Make transparentproducttrade-offs acrossexperience, value, operational impact,enterprise safeguards, andlong-term supportability.

Provide product demos, stakeholder updates, and executive-ready materials that explain capabilities, planned enhancements, risks, decisions, and trade-offs.

Define outcomes anduseadoption,quality,feedback, and operational data tocommunicate impact,identifyimprovements,andadjust priorities.

Partner with the AI Solutions BA & Test Lead to enable release readiness through UAT planning, test scenario validation, defect triage, acceptance criteria alignment, and post-release learnings.

Partner with technology, architecture, cybersecurity, privacy, legal, compliance, risk, and governance teams to build enterprise requirements into product design and delivery without losing sight of the intended colleague experience.

Translate product intent into technical requirements and support design decisions with architects, engineers, technical teams, and experience owners across workflows, agents, integrations, prompts, knowledge grounding, and feedback mechanisms.

Use evidence from testing, adoption, quality, and colleague feedback to support decisions to iterate, scale, pause, or retire capabilities.

Influence communication, change readiness, training, and enablement plans by translating product changes into practical stakeholder guidance.
**What You Bring**
5+ years of progressive experience in HR technology, productmanagement, business analysis, digital employee experience, HR operations enablement, ora relateddiscipline.

Strong understanding of HR functions, HR service delivery, employee lifecycle events, HR policies, and colleague support channels.

Experience with HR technology,



employee experience platforms, AI-enabled services, or digital service delivery, with the ability tomove from ambiguous stakeholderneedsto clear problem statements, options, recommendations, requirements, andpractical product outcomes.

Experience with Jira backlog management, story creation, acceptance criteria, backlog refinement, sprint support, and cross-functional delivery coordination.

Experiencefacilitatingstakeholder workshops, discovery sessions, Human-Centered Design activities, user interviews, or journey mapping.

Experiencenavigating regulated enterprise environments and incorporatingprivacy, compliance, risk, security, architecture,andresponsible AIconsiderations into product decisions.

Strong product judgment, analytical thinking, problem-solving, documentation, and communication skills, including the ability to evaluate trade-offs, assess downstream impacts, recommend practical solutions, and deliver executive-ready updates and credible product demonstrations.

Ability to influence without authority and work effectively across diverse, cross-functional teams and time zones.
**Preferred Qualifications**
Experience with Service

Now HR Service Delivery, HR case management, employee service portals, knowledge management, or Workday.

Experience withenterprise AI platforms such as

Azure AI Foundry,Azure OpenAI, or Microsoft

Copilot Studio,including agent concepts, prompt design, retrieval-augmented generation, knowledge grounding, and answer quality improvement.

Experience shaping AI-enabled product strategy or product discovery in People Services, HR technology, employee experience, or enterprise service delivery.

Experience supportingenterprise AI, privacy, compliance, or riskassessmentsand translating findings into practical product requirements and controls.
HCD, product management, business analysis, Agile, PMP, CHRP/CHRL, or related certification.

Post-secondary education in HR, Business, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
**Success Measures**
Priority opportunities arevalidatedwith colleagues and stakeholders, tied to measurable outcomes, and reflected in theproductvision and roadmap.

Product and technical decisions areclear,delivery teams receive decision-ready requirements, and ambiguity and rework are reduced.

Released experiences demonstrate improved usability,adoption, quality,service effectiveness, or colleague satisfaction.

Solutions progress ina timelyway with enterprise safeguards, ownership, and dependencies addressed early.

Post-launch evidence leads to clear decisions to iterate, scale, pause, or retire capabilities.
**Why Join Us?**
Shape theconnectedtechnologyecosystem behind AI-poweredexperiences across People & Communications.

Turn emerging capabilities into sustainable products used by colleaguesatenterprisescale.

Influence how colleagues work and thrive, strengthening their ability to support our customers.
**When you join our team:**
We'll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.

We'll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.

As part of our global team, we'll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
#LI-Hybrid
The role being advertised is an existing vacancy.
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Toronto, Ontario
**Modalidades de Trabajo**
Híbrido
**Salary range is expected to be between**
$92,900.00 CAD - $142,900.00 CAD
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📌 People Services AI Product Lead (Waterloo)
🏢 Manulife
📍 Waterloo