AI Product Lead

London (hybrid) · £80,000 + EMI equity options

Alteam partners with founders to build the teams that get them to product-market fit.

We're hiring on behalf of a VC-backed LLM startup — founded by a serial entrepreneur and a leading AI researcher. Their first product analyses production agent workflows and gives enterprises the evidence to replace expensive LLM-based calls safely with cheaper alternatives.

They're pre-product-market-fit, funded, and ready to hand product decisions to one person.

For your first three months, you drive strategy with the founders as final decision-makers while you build context. After that, roadmap, scope and priorities are yours. Founders keep commercial strategy and scientific direction. Growth path toward Head of Product / CPO as the company scales.

What you decide is what gets built — and you'll watch it land with real enterprise customers within weeks.

Reporting to the CEO, you own product strategy: what gets built, changed or stopped.

• Own the roadmap and be accountable for the outcomes.
• Talk to customers directly; turn insight into testable hypotheses.
• Run the cadence between Product, Science and Engineering — priorities clear, decisions made, work closed.
• Prototype fast, then ship validated ideas with Engineering.

• Several years in product with real 0→1 experience — founding PM, early-stage lead, ex-founder, or technical consultant who owned what got built.
• Deep AI fluency: LLM APIs, agentic systems, evaluation, traces, production failure modes. You hold the room with Science and Engineering. Formal AI education is a bonus; lived experience with agentic AI matters more.
• Hands-on customer discovery or user research.
• Product-first, with hands-on prototyping (e.g. Python) a strong plus.
• Comfortable taking ambiguous problems to evidence-backed decisions without needing consensus on every call.
• Enterprise AI deployment, evaluation or observability experience is a plus.

You listen before proposing solutions, and you change your mind when the evidence changes. You want real authority — and you're comfortable owning the failures as well as the wins.

Apply through Alteam, and we'll tell you exactly who they are. For a successful application, we recommend a short cover letter (we can tell if you used AI), sharing your portfolio, and including practical use cases. It's a very competitive role; you need to stand out!