Lead Product Manager

About Faculty

Faculty is one of Europe’s leading applied artificial intelligence companies. We build, deploy and operate AI solutions to increase our customers’ performance and help them realise their full potential. 

We’re perhaps best known for our award winning COVID-19 Early Warning System, that helped the NHS to manage critical supply chains during the pandemic.  But our work with over 300 customers to date has delivered impact for customers right across the economy.

Faculty is at an exciting moment in our development as a business.  We are launching Frontier; a market leading decision intelligence product, to sit alongside our more established consulting work.

This is an equally important time for the adoption of AI in society.  Conversational AI (like GPT3) and Creative AI (like DallE and Stable Diffusion) have given a glimpse into the transformative potential of the next wave of this technology.  

It is our belief that Decision AI will have impacts on a similar scale, and fundamentally change the way operational decisions are made in organisations.  

Our objective is that in five years time, Frontier will be the leading software in Decision AI category.

About the role

As a Lead Product Manager in the Product team, you will be leading a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, and data scientists, in the development of Frontier. Our vision is to build a category-leading Decision Intelligence platform for enterprises, powering billions of decisions a day through the sophisticated use of AI and simulation technologies.

What you’ll be doing

• Develop and execute on the product strategy for Frontier, through a roadmap that is informed by a deep understanding of the vision, our customers, the technology, and Faculty’s business goals  
• Carry out customer and market research, stay up-to-date with emerging technologies and industry trends related to decision intelligence, and apply those insights to inform product strategy and development
• Carry out product discovery to validate hypotheses and prototypes, define solutions to hard business or technology problems, and work closely with designers, engineers, and data scientists to ensure timely delivery, while continuously measuring outcomes & results
• Work closely with the commercial team to establish aligned priorities, and successful go-to-market, positioning, and pricing strategies
• Shape a product-led culture across Faculty through evangelism, role modelling a product- and customer-centric principles, and collaborating with peers in the Product Management team on company-wide strategic initiatives

Who we’re looking for

• Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, or a related field, technical background or experience preferred
• 7+ years of experience in product management, with at least 3 years in a leadership role
• Experience in launching and scaling complex, enterprise products, preferably in AI or decision intelligence 
• Proven interest or knowledge in AI, as well as modern enterprise technologies and architectures 
• Demonstrable understanding of the techniques and methods of modern product discovery and product delivery
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to inform product decisions.
• Demonstrable ability to figure out solutions to hard problems with many constraints, using sound judgement to assess risks, and to lay out your argument in a well-structured, data-informed way
• A creative, empathetic team player who can inspire and motivate others
• A can-do and proactive person who can operate in ambiguity
• A great communicator with proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, data scientists, commercial leads and clients in a constructive and collaborative way
• Experience of thriving in a fast-paced work environment. Relevant experience working within a start-up / scale-up will be a plus.

What we can offer you

The Faculty team is diverse and distinctive, and we all come from different personal, professional and organisational backgrounds. We all have one thing in common: we are driven by a deep intellectual curiosity that powers us forward each day. This curiosity pushes us to seek truth and understanding in everything we do, to execute work in a nimble and pragmatic manner, to foster talent in one another and always to challenge assumptions.

Faculty is the professional challenge of a lifetime. You’ll be surrounded by an impressive group of brilliant minds working to achieve our collective goals. Our consultants, product developers, business development specialists, operations professionals and more all bring something unique to Faculty, and you’ll learn something new from everyone you meet. You’ll also have the opportunity to make your mark on a high-growth start-up now poised to expand internationally.

Fostering talent is one of our core values, it’s built into our culture and what we offer. Faculty was founded by people who are passionate about continuous learning, and adding value to our people.

Some of our benefits…..

• Unlimited holidays: We encourage each other to use this time to take a break, work on personal projects, or to spend time with their friends and family.
• Genuinely flexible working: We believe people have needs, responsibilities and interests that require something different to a strict working day. We trust people to organise and take accountability for their own work and do our best to support their lives outside Faculty. We provide you with all you need to work from home, including a laptop, keyboard, chair…even Sony headphones!
• Equity: We want you to benefit from Faculty’s growth and success.
• Fantastic private health, optical and dental insurance for you & your family - including 24/7 unlimited virtual private GP appointments and covering pre-existing medical conditions.
• Access to mental health coaching with Sanctus
• Free breakfast daily, free weekly lunches, and more fruit, drinks and snacks than you could ever eat (for office-based employees).
• We work hard and make sure we enjoy what we do. So we have frequent socials and informal get-togethers to help make sure you enjoy your time with us. You’ll make friends and professional connections that will last a lifetime.