AI Product Lead (LLM startup)

Great opportunity to join a pre-seed/seed VC-backed startup.Competitive salary package (equity)Most product roles ask you to influence. This one hands you the keys.A VC-backed LLM research startup — a spinout from one of the world's top universities — is hiring its first Product Lead. The founding team is a leading AI researcher and a serial entrepreneur: the science is genuinely deep, and it ships at startup pace. Their product analyses production agent workflows and gives enterprises the evidence to safely replace expensive LLM calls with cheaper ones.They're pre-product-market-fit and moving fast. You spend three months building context with the founders, then the roadmap, scope and priorities become yours. Not input into. Yours. What you decide gets built, and it lands with real enterprise customers within weeks. Clear path to Head of Product / CPO.The role• Own the roadmap and be accountable for the outcomes• Run your own customer discovery and turn it into testable hypotheses• Drive the cadence between Product, Science and Engineering• Prototype fast, then ship with Engineering• Report directly to the CEOYour profileMUST have:• 2–3 years hands-on with LLM agents — APIs, evals, traces, real production failure modes• 0→1 product experience: founding PM, early-stage lead, ex-founder, or a technical consultant who owned what got built• Comfortable deciding on evidence without waiting for consensus• Experience coordinating an engineering team (backend, front-end)NICE have:• Python prototyping a strong plus• Strong knowledge in design prototypes (Figma Make, Claude)• Enterprise AI deployment, evaluation or observability experience a plusThe details• £80,000 + EMI equity options• Variety of startup perks• London, hybrid 1–2 days a weekThis is an opportunity to grow with the founding team, make an impact, and be one of the first employees to scale the startup! Apply by writing a short cover letter to info@alteam.io and sharing your experience building/deploying agentic AI solutions. No recruiters. Thanks