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Head of Product, reporting to the CEO. Shaping a consumer product around a language model, inside a team that is mostly engineers and researchers, is a different job from product management at a feature-driven company.
An AI-native search company in late seed / early Series A funding posture. Around 25 staff, engineering and research dense. Building a consumer search product designed around a language model rather than a ranked index. Backed by consumer-tech investors and a small group of operator angels. The product is in private beta with a waitlist in the high tens of thousands.
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Head of Product, reporting to the CEO. Founding product hire — the role exists today as a CEO remit and is being lifted out.
Owns the product organisation from a standing start. First responsibility is to hire a senior PM and a head of design within 6 months. The seat will manage to around 6 product staff by month 12.
Strategic moment: the firm is preparing to open the waitlist into general availability over the next 9 months. The Head of Product needs to define the surface that goes to GA, hold the product discipline as scale arrives, and run the relationship between product, research, and the editorial layer the firm is building.
London-based, office-first. Travel to investor and partner meetings in the US is expected once a quarter.
Shaping a consumer product around a language model, inside a team that is mostly engineers and researchers, is a different job from product management at a feature-driven company. Most of the work is deciding what the model should and should not do in front of a user, not shipping a feature roadmap. If you have built one of these products, or come close, the form on this page reaches me directly.
— Peter Wood, Partner & Chief Strategy Officer
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