Head of Product & Engineering London Full Time

Evident Insights Ltd

We are building the global standard benchmark for AI maturity in business.

Our mission is to accelerate the adoption of AI in banking by creating the most complete, unbiased and transparent public benchmark of corporate AI capability. Our inaugural product launch, the Evident AI Index, was covered by the New York Times and many other outlets.

We are index experts. Our Co-Founders Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Annabel Ayles have more than 30 years of experience building complex indices that drive positive change in the world.

We are building a cutting-edge research team that uses the latest techniques in machine learning to build faster and better data collection and analysis tools.

We are backed by some of the world’s leading tech investors, including the backers of Revolut and the tech commentator Scott Galloway, and have built a network of advisors that includes the Global AI Lead at AWS, Mastercard’s President of Cyber & Intelligence, Ocado’s former CTO, the former CCO of the Alan Turing Institute, the Chair of the UK Government AI Council, and the former Head of the UK Government Office for AI.

If you are interested in advancing your career at a fast-growing, innovative and impact-driven company, you can read about our values and our commitment to responsible AI here. Our commitments to diversity and inclusion are set out at the end of this job description.

The Role

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Head of Product and Engineering to develop our software engineering strategy, aligned to business goals and objectives. You will lead our engineering team in building our web-based applications and cloud platform solutions, including our internal tools, as well as owning and optimising our GCP spend.

You will be responsible for supporting our Software Engineers, providing guidance, feedback, and coaching, as well as effectively planning workloads to deliver technical solutions. We are looking for someone for whom planning and communication – to the engineering team and wider business – is second nature.

You will also define and refine our core products and ensure they are maximally valuable to our clients. Ideally, you will have experience working in content and data products for Financial Services clients, with a focus on AI and emerging technologies.

This is an extremely exciting greenfield opportunity, where you can shape our entire line of products and drive technical direction in a fast-growing organisation. As in any start-up, this role will require you to be a hands-on leader, but also set the vision and direction as we look to grow our product and engineering teams.

Key Responsibilities

1. Partner with other leaders in the business to define, build and own the technical strategy that aligns with the business objectives.
2. Oversee the development and infrastructure of our web solutions and internal tools.
3. Manage the Software Engineering team – including technical leadership, workload planning, recruitment and professional development.
4. Work cross-collaboratively with all other Evident teams to gather requirements and define upcoming product releases.
5. Lead on the implementation of best practices and high-quality code standards.
6. Communicate the technical strategy, roadmap, status, risks and opportunities to the wider business.
7. Work closely with our co-founders, as well as customers and clients, to map requirements and build user stories.
8. Own our GCP infrastructure, optimising for security and cost.
9. Direct the product roadmap, prioritise features and coordinate product schedules with the wider business.
10. Continuously assess systems, solutions and business processes and look for improvements.

Core Skills

1. Significant experience in software engineering, with at least 1+ years in a managerial or leadership role.
2. Proven track record of building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
3. Experience owning product roadmaps.
4. Strong technical expertise in building scalable systems.
5. Proficiency in Django (Python) and knowledge of React.
6. Experience in managing and building with the GCP suite of services (App Engine and GKE are very beneficial).
7. Excellent project management, communication and interpersonal skills, with experience in Agile methodologies.
8. Knowledge of and experience implementing cloud security best practices.
9. Significant experience in product development and management.
10. Ability to translate business strategy into product strategy.
11. Track record of executing product strategy, product launches and contributing to go-to-market strategy.

Nice to have

1. Experience working in a startup/small team.
2. Experience working in a DevOps environment.
3. Experience managing product profitability and commercial success (owning the business case).
4. Understanding of the key issues facing leadership teams in global companies on topics related to artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies.
5. Building products in any of the below:
6. Start-up environment.
7. Market research/media company.
8. Consulting in Financial Services companies on topics such as AI and digital transformation.

If you do not fulfil all requirements in the job description, we encourage you to submit your application nonetheless.

Share options: we offer all employees share options over a 4 year vesting period.

Holidays: 28 days of holiday + public bank holidays.

Flexible working: 3-4 days per week in our Central London office, 1-2 days remote.

Pension.

Private health insurance.

Our commitments to diversity and inclusion

Evident is committed to encouraging equality, diversity and inclusion among our workforce, and eliminating all forms of discrimination. Our aim is for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society and our customers, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best.

During our recruitment process, you will not be discriminated against for any of the following reasons: race (including colour, nationality, ethnic and national origin), age, disability, gender reassignment, being married or in a civil partnership, being pregnant or on maternity leave, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. If you need us to make certain changes (known as reasonable adjustments) to make sure you are not disadvantaged during the recruitment process, you should contact us as soon as possible.

We strive to create a working environment free of bullying, harassment, victimisation and discrimination, promote dignity and respect for all, and value and recognise individual differences and the contributions of all staff.