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Group Product Manager at PolyAI

London, United KingdomFull-timeProductPosted 9 days ago

About the Role

<div class="content-intro"><p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><sup>PolyAI automates customer service through lifelike voice assistants that let customers lead a conversation. Our voice assistants make it possible for businesses to deliver outstanding customer service that rivals their human agents. Our customers, which include the world’s leading logos, are expanding how they use our platform, driving automation of critical customer service operations and integrating PolyAI into their daily customer service workflows.&nbsp;</sup></span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Enterprises trust our conversational AI platform to automate millions of customer interactions every day. Your mission is to define the strategy and lead the product group responsible for the end-to-end Enterprise experience across <strong>Building, Supervising, and Multichannel Execution</strong>. This includes the foundational tooling for creating, configuring, and optimizing LLM-powered agents (Building Experience), the interface and controls for human supervisors and quality assurance teams (Supervisor Experience), and the market-leading experience across all text surfaces like Webchat, WhatsApp, Email, and SMS (Chat/Multichannel Experience). We are looking for an ROI focused and strategic Group PM to <strong>own the product success of these three critical pillars</strong>, driving market adoption, platform stability, and establishing a unified, world-class experience for our largest customers.</sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>You will lead, mentor, and align multiple product, design, and engineering teams, translating frontier Agentic AI into intuitive, trustworthy, and scalable enterprise solutions that solve core workflow challenges for Builders and Supervisors while ensuring seamless end-user experiences. If you are motivated by driving organizational alignment, solving complex, at-scale platform problems, and transforming product vision into commercial reality, we want to meet you.</sup></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Key Responsibilities</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Define and Lead the Enterprise Platform Vision and Portfolio Strategy.</strong> Establish a winning product strategy and unified architecture across the three core areas: Building Experience, Supervisor Experience, and Chat/Multichannel Experience. Define, monitor, and report on key business and product success indicators, driving continuous improvement across the entire portfolio to maximize ROI for our enterprise clients.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Own and Deliver the End-to-End Roadmap.</strong> Oversee the entire product lifecycle for the platform portfolio - from discovery and strategic prioritization to iterative development, launch, and optimization. Ensure all product initiatives are aligned with the overarching Enterprise business strategy.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Drive Organisational Alignment and Thought Leadership.</strong> Serve as the principal bridge between executive strategy, complex customer needs, and technical execution across multiple product teams. Champion new technical breakthroughs to challenge and redefine the future of conversational AI platforms and workflows in the enterprise space.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Product Ownership for Three Pillars:</strong></sup></span></p> </li> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Building Experience:</strong> Define the features and tools that enable internal teams and customers to rapidly create, configure, test, and deploy high-quality, LLM-powered agents at scale.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Supervisor Experience:</strong> Lead the development of tooling for human oversight, reporting, quality assurance, and intervention workflows to ensure compliance and maintain service quality.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Chat/Multichannel Experience:</strong> Guide the strategy for extending and unifying the agent experience across all text surfaces (Webchat, WhatsApp, Email, SMS, etc.).</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Integrate and Optimize Core AI Technology.</strong> Direct product requirements and evaluation frameworks to ensure our underlying LLM, RAG, and tool-calling pipelines are optimized for all platform components, driving consistency, quality, and performance at an enterprise scale.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Lead Go-to-Market Strategy for Enterprise.</strong> Direct Go-to-Market collaboration, including the coordination of beta programs, launch kits, and pricing/packaging, to drive rapid rollout and platform adoption.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Develop and Mentor Product Talent.</strong> Provide leadership, guidance, and mentorship to a team of Product Managers, fostering a high-performing, data-driven culture focused on maximum business impact.</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Requirements</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>8+ years</strong> of Product Management experience, with a minimum of <strong>3 years</strong> managing, mentoring, and leading a team of Product Managers across different product lines.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Proven experience driving the product lifecycle for multiple, interconnected B2B or Enterprise SaaS products at scale.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Exceptional ability to use qualitative customer insights and quantitative business data to define, validate, and evolve a portfolio-level product strategy.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Demonstrated track record of being ROI-driven, maximising the impact of resources across multiple teams to bring the most value for customers and the business.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Superior communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex strategies and results to executive leadership, technical teams, and external customers.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Strong technical background. A Bachelor’s or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience in software development and products.</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Preferred Requirements</strong></sup></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Experience working on a global B2B or Enterprise SaaS product with a significant international footprint.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Previous experience as a Group PM or Director-level product leader.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Experience defining, measuring, and moving quantitative success metrics for sophisticated conversational AI, contact center, or B2B ML/AI platform solutions.</sup></span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Familiarity with enterprise-grade platform components, including contact center/CRM integrations, supervisor and analytics tooling, and core conversational AI/NLP technologies.</sup></span></p> </li> </ul> <hr> <p><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong>Benefits</strong></sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">💰</span> Participation in the company’s employee share options plan</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🏝</span> Tenure-Based PTO: You will receive 25 holidays when you join and will gain an additional 1 day after 2 years of service, then 1 day each year until capped at 32 holidays</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🏡</span> Flexible working from home policy</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🌎</span> Work from outside of the UK for up to 6 months each year</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🫂</span>TELUS Health EAP 24/7 - offers you and your chosen family confidential, judgment-free support for any work, health, or life challenge</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🧡</span> Enhanced parental leave</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🚲</span> Bike2Work scheme</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">📚</span> Annual learning and development allowance</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🏡</span> We’re all about making WFH work for you - that’s why we offer a one-off WFH allowance when you join. Offering perks like noise-cancelling headphones or a comfortable desk chair to boost your comfort and focus!</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s2"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/family-man-woman-girl/">👨‍👩‍👧</a></span> Company-funded fertility and family-forming programmes</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s2"><a href="https://emojipedia.org/cherry-blossom/">🌸</a></span> Menopause care programme with Maven</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🏥</span> Private healthcare and dental cover, discounts on gym members and relaxation apps, and access to a range of mental health programs</sup></span></p> <p class="p1"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><span class="s1">🌎</span>&nbsp;Sabbatical Program: 5-week paid sabbatical available after 5 years of employment</sup></span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><hr> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>At PolyAI, we take great pride in our values - they guide everything we do. We believe that a strong culture leads to meaningful work and lasting impact.</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup>Our core values are:</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/only-the-best/63f754d467834139.gif" alt=":only-the-best:" width="30"><br></strong><strong>Only the best<br></strong>We expect the best from our people, we hire people that expect the best from themselves, and we nurture this drive for excellence.</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" alt=""><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/ownership/753f47103884882c.gif" alt=":ownership:" width="30"><br></strong><strong>Ownership<br></strong>We care deeply about what we do. We take ownership of our initiatives, decisions and outcomes.</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/relentlessly-improve/b5e1910b7c09b966.gif" alt=":relentlessly-improve:" width="30"><br></strong><strong>Relentlessly improve<br></strong>We demand more from ourselves and are always evolving. Continuous, obsessive improvement is the only way we will transform the world of conversational AI.</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/bias-for-action/0a5bd6888d3f2db1.gif" alt=":bias-for-action:" width="30"><br></strong><strong>Bias for action<br></strong>Our world moves quickly and so do we. We take calculated risks and we deliver impact fast.</sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/disagree-and-commit/0cee7f9f02baac38.gif" alt=":disagree-and-commit:" width="30"><br>Disagree and commit<br></strong>We are all working toward the same goal. If we donʼt agree with something, we work hard to understand it and when a decision is made, we accept it and give it our all.<strong><br></strong></sup></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1;"><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><sup><strong><img style="max-width: 100%;" src="https://emoji.slack-edge.com/T8GS4RNNM/build-for-people/9c2fba2ffb2331c8.gif" alt=":build-for-people:" width="30"><br>Build for people<br></strong>We want the world to enjoy the experiences they have with us. We are building for a future that prefers automation.</sup></span></p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><sup><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>PolyAI is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All employment decisions at PolyAI will be based on the business needs without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, neurodiversity status or disability status.</em><br></span></sup></span></p> <hr> <p style="line-height: 1.2;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><sup><span style="font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;"><em>Kindly find the Privacy Notice for our recruitment process by following the link <a href="https://polyai.notion.site/Recruitment-Privacy-Notice-1b5097db17f7802ead64dd6daf159ded">here</a>. This document provides important information regarding how we handle your personal data throughout the recruitment journey.</em></span></sup></span></p></div>