About this role
Salary: £120,000 - 150,000 per year
Requirements
- Experience leading B2C digital product development and delivery, with accountability for product outcomes and engineering delivery; subscription, media, e-commerce or marketplace experience is preferred.
- Track record of taking products from 0–1 by identifying valuable problems, testing assumptions, shipping quickly and learning from users.
- Practical experience building AI-powered products, including LLM application patterns and evaluation methods.
- Strong engineering judgement, with the ability to guide architecture, challenge decisions and earn senior engineers confidence.
- Track record of hiring and developing strong technical teams.
- Comfortable working in ambiguous, fast-changing environments and communicating clearly with technical, editorial and commercial audiences.
- Commitment to intellectual rigour, global perspective and editorial independence.
Responsibilities
- Set the AI labs product and technical direction, translating editorial and business priorities into a focused innovation roadmap.
- Lead a multidisciplinary product, design and engineering team, fostering rapid experimentation and high standards.
- Own the 0–1 process, from research and prototyping through user testing and launch, and decide whether to improve, scale or stop products.
- Champion customer needs and work with editorial colleagues to create valuable products while protecting quality, provenance and independence.
- Guide architecture, build-versus-buy decisions and engineering practices for reliable AI product development.
- Define success measures and connect successful concepts with our wider platforms, data and priorities.
Technologies
- AI
- LLM
More
We are a global media and information-services company helping people and organisations understand complex global challenges through rigorous analysis and evidence-based insight. We are seeking a Head of Product & Engineering to lead the product and technical work of our AI innovation lab. This is a hands-on leadership role with a small multidisciplinary team, working closely with editorial colleagues and owning the full 0–1 journey. The role is based in London on a hybrid basis, with three days a week in the office. The salary is £120,000–£150,000 basic, plus bonus and excellent benefits.
last updated 43 week of 2026