Head of Product Management

We are hiring a Head of Product Management to lead Descrial's product strategy through its V2 launch in early 2027. You will be key to decisions on where we compete, what we build and what we leave out.You will own the direction, roadmap and packaging, lead multiple product managers across London and Bengaluru and carry product decisions to the Executive Committee. The work is to turn customer needs into a product the business can commit to and engineering can deliver.About DescrialDescrial is a startup inside a twenty-year-old companyTresVista has run the analytical work behind private capital since 2006. 2,000 people, 400+ clients including some of the biggest names in the industry, no outside capital and no outside board. That was the first chapter. And we enjoyed getting here!The next chapter is harder and more interestingWe are moving from services to software, from one firm's workflows to an industry's, and from executing investment decisions to shaping how they get made. Thirty of us in King's Cross, small and senior, with day one founder intensity.At its fullest expression, Descrial changes how every serious investment firm decides.The roleAs Descrial's senior product voice, you report to the Executive Committee and work as a peer to the Head of Engineering. You set the operating rhythm between product, engineering, design and the commercial team, and take responsibility for the choices behind the roadmap.Your remitThe strategy and roadmapYou define where Descrial competes and what the product will and will not do. You turn that direction into a sequenced roadmap, make the priorities and trade-offs explicit and explain the decisions to clients, engineers and the Executive Committee. You set clear cut-lines for V2 against the early-2027 launch target.With the commercial team, you own packaging, including how consumption-based elements work when the cost of serving a workflow varies.The product organisationAll the product managers across London and Bengaluru report to you. You develop the team and work alongside Design and Customer Success. You set the discovery cadence, specification standards and release governance, and make the interface with design research clear. You set the hiring bar and bring your judgement to every product hire that follows.The customer and marketYou stay close to enterprise customers with Customer Success, lead discovery and validation and bring structured feedback into the roadmap. In client conversations where the roadmap is part of what they are buying, you represent the product and explain the choices behind it.AI quality and product judgementYou partner with the Head of Engineering and Architects on feasibility, sequencing and the cost of LLM-powered features, including agentic workflows, retrieval and document intelligence. You define what good looks like, how quality is measured and when a capability is ready to ship.You decide where an agent can act on its own, where it should propose an action for a person to approve and how much of a workflow to automate at once. Those decisions belong in the product strategy and release criteria.Your experienceYou have led product teams for four years or more, including hiring and developing strong product managers.You have shipped B2B SaaS products or enterprise platforms from ambiguity to revenue and can walk through the decisions that made them.You have set direction for a product line and been accountable for the outcome, with ownership extending beyond delivery.You understand LLM-powered features, evaluation-led quality and the cost and latency trade-offs of production AI.You can work with a technical peer as an equal and hold a considered view on feasibility and sequencing.You have a bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, business or a related field, or equivalent experience. An advanced degree is welcome.Useful to have, none requiredFinancial services experience, ideally in asset management or private markets. The domain expertise is already here; we value product judgement above sector tenure.Experience in a founder-led scale-up through a comparable build phase. Descrial – Head of Product Management 3 of 5Exposure to multi-tenant enterprise platforms with complex permissions and data-isolation requirements.The realityThis will be difficult.It demands pace and accuracy. We are building autonomous systems inside high-stakes live businesses, where decisions carry real consequences and impact and waiting for everyone to agree is not always an option.The systems will sometimes get things wrong. In this phase the London team needs to create the evaluations, visibilities and safeguards that catch mistakes early, reducing them over time and stopping the same failures happening again.If you want to build the foundations of an enterprise grade technology platform to service a multi-billion $ serviceable market opportunity, and share in that growth, this is your chance to join us.In our conversationsCome ready to discuss three pieces of work:A product strategy you owned: the direction you chose, what you left out and the commercial outcome.A product team you developed: the people you hired, the standards you set and what improved.An AI product decision: how you judged quality, weighed cost and latency and decided what was ready to ship.Compensation and equityThe all-inclusive package is typically £190,000–£220,000 a year, depending on experience. We may go beyond this in exceptional cases. Meaningful equity in the venture comes on top.Practical detailsKing's Cross, London. In office (3 to 5 days a week), with colleagues in London and Bengaluru.Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.We aim to finish the process within three weeks. Tell us if you need an adjustment to the interviews.Descrial is an equal opportunity employer.ApplyYou do not need to meet every qualification to apply. Strong candidates bring different combinations of experience, judgement and potential, and we know that some people are more likely than others to underestimate what they could contribute. If the work interests you and you believe you could make an impact, we encourage you to apply.The systems we are building will influence how important investment decisions are made. That makes a range of experiences and perspectives essential to building them responsibly. We want a team where different viewpoints are heard, respected and reflected in the work.*Your application will be passed to our screening partner Chooseto.AI