Senior Product Engineer
📍 London | 🕐 Full-time | ⚡ Early-stage startup | 🛠 Product & Engineering
ABOUT THE COMPANY
Modern democracies struggle not because people don't care, but because citizen voices are atomised and hard to make sense of. One representative speaks for hundreds of thousands - yet most citizens are powerless, cut off from essential knowledge, and unable to take action together.
We're building the upgrade: mapping the power structures that serve citizens and creating effortless communication between people and decision-makers at all levels. By coordinating what citizens care about, we transform individual concerns into shared understanding, collective wisdom, and policy signals that cannot be ignored.
The result is much faster public discourse and consensus — turning participation into real change. We're a group of technologists, product builders and political aficionados working to empower both citizens and those elected to represent them.
THE ROLE
We're looking for a high-agency Product Manager + Product Engineer: someone who thinks like a product person and can build like an engineer.
This isn't a pure PM role, and it isn't a pure engineering role. It sits at the intersection of product marketing (what does the market need?) and how it can be built with available technologies. The right person can write a product specification in the morning, pair with a developer in the afternoon, and ship a prototype by the end of week.
You'll own the product surface end-to-end — from strategy and roadmap through to UX decisions, feature specs, and implementation. You'll be the connective tissue between user insight, design, and the codebase. You will work closely with the founders and with the head of engineering.
WHAT YOU'LL WORK ON
– Own the product roadmap and make hard prioritisation calls in a resource-constrained environment
– Define and spec features across our citizen, representative, and closed community surfaces
– Work directly with engineers and designers to ship — not just write specs and hand them over
– Drive our AI-powered product features, including the intent and routing logic that sits at the core of the platform
– Own third-party integrations and data partnerships that expand our reach and signal quality
– Keep the product knowledge base structured, current, and useful for the whole team
– Contribute to go-to-market materials and partnership conversations where product knowledge is essential
– Help hire and shape the product function as we grow
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
– Strongly motivated by our mission and working at the cutting edge of communications technology and politics
– Strong product instincts — you've shipped 0→1 products and made hard calls under ambiguity
– Enough engineering ability to review code, prototype features, and pressure-test technical decisions
– Comfortable with APIs, data pipelines, and integration work
– Excellent written communication — specs, pitches, and user-facing copy
– High EQ — able to work across engineers, designers, and external partners
– Ability to quickly prototype an idea into a non-working frontend using vibe coding tools before handing it off to our full stack engineer
– Go beyond the role scope and use modern AI technologies to give engineering a helping hand, in things like data scraping pipelines
Nice to Have
– Familiarity with Claude Code, Agentic Systems, Lovable App
– Experience building AI-powered product features or working with LLMs
– Civic tech, govtech, or public sector background
– Early-stage startup experience (pre-seed / seed)
WHAT THIS ISN'T
This isn't a role for someone who wants to manage a backlog and attend standups. We're a small, ambitious team working on something that genuinely matters. You'll be expected to have opinions, own outcomes, and do things that don't have a playbook yet. If you need a lot of structure to operate well, this probably isn't the right fit. If you do your best work when the problem is hard and the stakes feel real — it might be.