Senior Product Manager

Who you are

• You'll bring experience building AI native systems, with particular experience building AI native UX
• You'll have had success taking complex human workflows and distilling them into highly adaptable technical systems, then scaling access to those systems across multiple interaction surfaces – UI, APIs, CLIs, and MCPs
• You'll also have experience directly managing engineers, ideally in a client-facing or solutions-engineering capacity, and know how to turn a sophisticated client's bespoke needs into a scalable integration rather than a one-off fix
• An extensive and varied track record building AI-native products and UX, including scaling access across multiple interaction surfaces such as UI, APIs, CLIs, and MCPs
• Experience directly managing engineers, ideally in a client-facing or solutions-engineering capacity, and turning sophisticated clients' bespoke needs into scalable integrations
• Fluency in modern Product/Engineering practice: Agile, continuous discovery and delivery, JTBD, vertical slicing, test-learn-iterate
• Strong commercial acumen and data-informed decision-making, paired with a storyteller's flair and a relentless can-do attitude
• Experience building for or with frontier AI labs or major technology companies
• A track record of giving back to your Product community

What the job involves

• As we scale our AI Product Group, we're looking for a Senior Product Manager to take founder-level ownership of the tooling that lets frontier AI model developers conduct cutting-edge research on Prolific
• Increasingly, our AI customers are among the leading AI companies in the world, and this role will additionally lead a team of client-facing engineers dedicated to building strategic integrations and rapid, bespoke development for their most demanding needs
• You'll report into the AI Lead, and join a brilliant team of Product Managers building next-generation AI tooling within our AI Product Group
• Impact: You'll be the Product person accountable for the outcomes of a stream-aligned team building next-gen tooling for frontier AI model developers, and also prioritise for impact the work of a client-facing engineering team
• This is a career-defining moment to shape how some of the world's biggest technology companies build AI – no big deal
• You'll own how our most strategic AI clients experience Prolific end to end, from product to bespoke integration
• Domain: You will manage two teams which together give you unmatched closeness and opportunity to build tools for the companies and researchers driving the AI frontier
• The Data Collection Tooling team is responsible for building and scaling the systems that enable high-quality human data collection for AI training and evaluation
• Additionally the strategic integrations team interfaces directly with our biggest AI accounts for custom builds
• It's critical that the person in this role prioritizes both intuitively and systematically, and is a master at the elegant art of trade-offs between the here and now and the future
• Responsibilities: You'll product manage a stream-aligned team of your own, and lead a team of client-facing engineers delivering strategic integrations and rapid, custom development for our most strategic AI accounts
• You'll be accountable for the outcomes of both, and be the key driver of interaction with your peer teams, collaborating across domains of science, research, supply, sales, and account services
• Culture: Adding on to our Prolific Principles, we expect colleagues in the Product, Research, and Design Group to demonstrate reliability, grit, diplomacy, a bias for action, and a dogged focus on value – you'll be a champion of these behaviours yourself, and in the culture of your team
• Accountability and autonomy are two sides of the same coin, and we expect you to demonstrate both
• Build and launch the next generation of Prolific's Data Collection Tooling product suite
• Lead a team of client-facing engineers delivering strategic integrations and rapid, custom development for our most demanding AI accounts
• Stay up to speed with the rapidly changing face of frontier AI research, keeping your product ahead of customer needs
• Run the end-to-end product development lifecycle, from strategy to success metrics to roadmap, delivery, and iteration – communicating that strategy clearly to executives while working through the details with your team
• Be an unblocker and simplifier of complexity: colleagues will bring you problems, and emerge optimistic, with solutions
• Partner productively with Product Design, User Research, Analytics, and Engineering in a test-learn-iterate fashion

Benefits

• Bank holiday swaps
• Enhanced sick pay
• L&D budget – £1000 per year
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
• Remote Work ( Within UK or US)