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Technical Product Lead, AI
You build the thing yourself. Then you decide what gets built next.
We're hiring a Technical Product Lead, AI, for a venture-backed LLM research startup. London, hybrid one or two days a week. £80,000 plus EMI equity options.
Most product roles ask you to influence. This one hands you the keys, and the founders want them held by someone who has shipped systems, not just specs.
THE COMPANY
We're Alteam, and we're helping a venture-backed startup hire a Product Lead to replace someone on maternity leave. It's a spinout from one of the world's top universities, founded by a leading AI researcher and a serial entrepreneur, so the science runs deep and things still ship fast.
Their product replays a team's real production traffic against candidate models and flags behavioural differences before they switch, so enterprises can cut their model bill or handle a migration they didn't choose, knowing exactly what changes. It runs inside the customer's own cloud. The buyers are engineers. The problem is technical. So are the product decisions.
THE ROLE
- Own the roadmap and the outcomes, including the ones that don't work
- Sit with customer engineers yourself, forward deployed, and turn what you learn into testable ideas
- Keep Product, Science and Engineering moving together, priorities clear, and decisions made
- Prototype fast, then ship with Engineering
- Report straight to the CEO
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YOUR PROFILE
You can hold your own with research scientists, and you would rather build the thing than write a document about it. In practice:
- You can open the trace of a failing multistep agent and form a hypothesis before you ask Engineering. Langfuse, OpenTelemetry, whatever you reach for.
- You design the eval set yourself: golden datasets, scoring, regression gates on release. You know where LLM-as-judge quietly falls apart.
- You've built multi-agent systems that real users depend on, with the guardrails that come with it: conclusions cited to source, scoped access, human approval on anything that writes.
- You can argue model routing, caching and distillation as cost levers, with numbers behind you.
- You build with agentic coding tools daily, Claude Code or Cursor or your own setup, and ship working agents from a spec rather than writing a doc for someone else to build.
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REQUIREMENTS
- 8+ years of experience: preferably in startups, coding, building and being customer-facing
- At least two years hands-on with LLM agents in production: APIs, agentic systems, evaluation, traces, and real failure modes.
- Evaluation or observability work in your own hands. You've measured whether a model change made things better or worse, and you can say exactly how you knew.
- Happy to take messy problems to a decision on evidence, without needing everyone to agree.
- Enterprise, regulated or otherwise high-stakes deployment is a strong plus.
THIS PROBABLY ISN'T FOR YOU...
- If your AI work has mostly stayed in demos and pilots that never reached production
- If you've owned roadmaps but never a technical trade-off
- If you have never written a line of code before the coding assistant era
SALARY AND PERKS
- £80,000 base salary
- Generous stock option package (EMI)
- 5 weeks paid holiday
- Flexible schedule, hybrid one or two days a week in London
Sound like you? Apply here or get in touch, and I'll tell you who they are and what they're building. Yoann Demont
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