Are you excited to shape a research‑grade, AI‑powered product that helps scientists think deeper and move faster—while owning a critical trust‑driven feature from strategy to launch?
Do you want to lead high‑impact product work at the intersection of AI, trust, and science, collaborating with cross‑functional teams to scale a platform that truly advances human progress?
About our Team
We are the product management team responsible for LeapSpace, a research-grade AI-assisted workspace that helps researchers work faster, think deeper and achieve more in one secure environment.
Our team is agile, diverse, and international. We fully embrace iterative, evidence-based product development with a strong emphasis on meeting customer needs. We take pride in contributing to making the world a better place by supporting the scientific community.
About the Role:
In this role, you will shape the future direction of your squad. You’ll report to the Senior Product Director and Strategy Lead, working closely to deliver the product vision and manage the backlog effectively. While the Director defines the agentic AI strategy, your squad will lead progress in AI-powered research ahead of wider product rollout. You will help set strategic direction in partnership with the Director while owning execution and delivery within the squad.
You’ll collaborate closely with the Senior Product Director, UX designers, and data scientists to prototype and explore ideas using modern AI tools. Our team expects product managers to build and validate concepts, not simply write specifications. You will work daily with a Principal Engineer and an embedded three-person data science team.
Success in this role requires adaptability in a fast-moving environment and strong cross-functional leadership to ensure alignment and effective delivery across stakeholders.
Responsibilities:
In this role you will lead regular ceremonies, including stand-ups whilst also representing LeapSpace by demo-ing to customers at conferences and webinars. Energise audiences and make the product shine.
You will own the Product backlog and delivery priorities for your squad and lead current squad deliverables, including vault integration, responsive design, and front-end experience improvements.
Expand to own agentic AI capabilities and Deep Research as your scope grows.
Collaborate with embedded data scientists to assess and refine response accuracy, retrieval relevance, and trust features.
Contribute to retrieval quality evaluation and improvement processes across the product.
Identify and eliminate operational blockers to accelerate your team’s delivery effectiveness.
Own privacy review and compliance for your squad's features; ensure new capabilities meet governance requirements before launch.
Act as the contact for sales and customer success—handle queries, join calls, and share insights.
Own the evaluation quality loop: commissioning evaluations with data scientists, interpreting results, and translating findings into prioritised product improvements.
Requirements
A number of years of product management experience or equivalent, with a track record of shipping complex features in fast-moving environments.
Experience with AI/ML products—especially generative AI, RAG, or agentic workflows—is central to this role.
Be comfortable with AI coding tools and rapid prototyping. You will build proofs of concept, validate ideas with teams, and prototype.
Communicate technically with the cross-disciplinary team; evaluate architecture and trade-offs without writing production code.
Proven ability to perform in an agile environment and manage ambiguity effectively; experience in a start-up or early-stage product is highly desirable.
Genuine interest in supporting the scientific community as well as understanding their unique needs.
Strong background in cross-functional collaboration, particularly with engineering, data science, and platform teams.
Demonstrated experience managing platform and infrastructure work alongside user-facing features.
Experience in customer discovery methodologies, with a focus on understanding pain points and translating them into product decisions.
Experience supporting go-to-market execution and working with sales and marketing teams.
Strong analytical proficiency, using data and experimentation to inform decisions.
Work in a way that works for you:
We promote a healthy work/life balance across the organisation. We offer an appealing working prospect for our people. With numerous wellbeing initiatives, shared parental leave, study assistance and sabbaticals, we will help you meet your immediate responsibilities and your long-term goals.
Working for you:
We know that your wellbeing and happiness are key to a long and successful career. These are some of the benefits we are delighted to offer:
● Generous holiday allowance with the option to buy additional days
● Health screening, eye care vouchers and private medical benefits
● Wellbeing programs
● Life assurance
● Access to a competitive contributory pension scheme
● Save As You Earn share option scheme
● Travel Season ticket loan
● Electric Vehicle Scheme
● Optional Dental Insurance
● Maternity, paternity and shared parental leave
● Employee Assistance Programme
● Access to emergency care for both the elderly and children
● RECARES days, giving you time to support the charities and causes that matter to you
● Access to employee resource groups with dedicated time to volunteer
● Access to extensive learning and development resources
● Access to employee discounts scheme via Perks at Work
About the business:
A global leader in information and analytics, we help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. Building on our publishing heritage, we combine quality information and vast data sets with analytics to support visionary science and research, health education and interactive learning, as well as exceptional healthcare and clinical practice. What you do every day will help advance science and healthcare to advance human progress.
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