Product Lead - AI

Product Lead - AI London-based only (hybrid, 1-2 days/week co-working). Applications from outside London won't be considered. About the company Trismik is a University of Cambridge AI spinout helping enterprises deploy AI more effectively and responsibly. Our first product analyses production agent workflows and provides evidence for safely replacing expensive LLM calls with cheaper alternatives. The role Reporting to the CEO, you'll own product strategy: what we build, change or stop. We're pre-product-market-fit, so here's the honest deal: for your first three months you drive strategy with the founders as final decision makers while you build context. After that, decision rights on roadmap, scope and priorities transfer to you. Founders keep commercial strategy and scientific direction. What you'll do * Own the roadmap and be accountable for outcomes. * Talk to customers directly and turn insights into testable product hypotheses. * Run the cadence between Product, Science and Engineering, priorities clear, decisions made, work closed. * Prototype fast, then work with Engineering to ship validated ideas. What we're looking for * An engineering background (software engineer or similarly hands-on technical role) and you've built and shipped AI or agentic products. You're comfortable prototyping yourself (e.g. Python). * Real 0 to 1 product 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 plus, but lived experience with agentic AI matters most. * Hands-on customer discovery or user research experience. * Comfortable taking ambiguous problems to evidence-backed decisions without needing consensus on every call. * Enterprise AI deployment, evaluation or observability experience a plus. How you work You listen before proposing solutions and change your mind when the evidence changes. You want real decision-making authority and are comfortable being accountable for the results, including the failures. Why Trismik You'll join at the point where product ownership genuinely matters: what you decide is what gets built, and you'll see it land with real enterprise customers within weeks. Growth path toward CPO as the company scales. Compensation and practicalities * £80,000-£90,000 + EMI equity options * London based, hybrid 1-2 days/week co-working * Hiring process Three stages: an intro call with the CEO, a technical interview with our co-founder, and a product and discovery interview. We move quickly and give feedback at every stage.