Chief Product Officer

Chief Product Officer

Location: London (Hybrid)

Interim - 3 months

About the Company

Our client is an AI-native SaaS company transforming how organisations understand and act on consumer insight.

This business has built a market-leading self-service research platform that enables organisations to access real-time customer intelligence at speed. Today, the platform is trusted by hundreds of enterprise customers, including many of the world's most recognised brands across technology, financial services, consumer goods and media.

Having secured significant venture capital investment from top-tier investors, the company is entering an exciting new phase of growth. It is evolving from a successful research platform into an AI-first consumer intelligence platform, leveraging autonomous AI agents to automate research design, audience selection, analysis and reporting.

With strong year-on-year growth, a healthy balance sheet and ambitious plans to scale significantly over the coming years, this represents a unique opportunity to help define the future of AI-powered decision making.

The Opportunity

We're looking for an exceptional Chief Product Officer to lead the company's next stage of product evolution.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you'll define and execute the long-term product vision, leading the transition towards a portfolio of AI-native products that fundamentally change how enterprise organisations make decisions.

This is a highly strategic leadership role with significant influence across the business. You'll combine deep customer understanding, commercial thinking and technical curiosity to create products that solve meaningful customer problems while delivering measurable business growth.

Working closely with Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing and Customer Success, you'll build a product organisation capable of delivering category-defining innovation at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Vision

• Define and communicate a compelling long-term product vision aligned to the company's commercial objectives.
• Develop and execute a multi-product strategy focused on AI-enabled customer experiences.
• Translate market opportunities and customer needs into clear product roadmaps.
• Prioritise investments that balance innovation, customer value and commercial impact.

AI Product Innovation

• Champion AI-first thinking throughout the product organisation.
• Drive the adoption of generative AI, LLMs and agentic workflows across the platform.
• Build differentiated products that simplify complex customer workflows.
• Foster a culture of experimentation, rapid learning and continuous improvement.

Leadership & Organisation

• Lead, mentor and scale high-performing Product and Design teams.
• Build an accountable, customer-focused product organisation.
• Establish effective product operating models, governance and decision-making processes.
• Develop future product leaders through coaching and empowerment.

Product Delivery

• Own the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery through launch and ongoing optimisation.
• Partner closely with Engineering to ensure high-quality execution.
• Collaborate with Customer Success, Sales and Marketing to maximise customer adoption and commercial outcomes.
• Ensure product initiatives are aligned with business objectives and measurable success metrics.

Executive Leadership

• Serve as a key member of the Executive Leadership Team.
• Partner with the CEO and Board on long-term company strategy.
• Contribute to strategic planning, investment decisions and future growth opportunities, including potential acquisitions and new product ventures.

What They Looking For

The successful candidate will bring a combination of strategic leadership, commercial awareness and deep product expertise.

We're particularly interested in individuals who have:

• Led Product organisations within high-growth B2B SaaS businesses.
• Built AI-enabled, platform or data-intensive software products.
• Experience defining long-term product strategy and executing against ambitious growth plans.
• Successfully scaled Product and Design teams through periods of rapid growth.
• Strong customer empathy with the ability to balance user needs, technical feasibility and commercial objectives.
• Experience partnering closely with executive leadership teams and Boards.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• An entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to thrive in fast-moving, high-growth environments.