Head of Product
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Job Description
Captur helps software understand real world scenes in real-time with an SDK for flexible, on-demand visual recognition. We’re a small, rapidly scaling team backed by top-tier investors; we recently closed a $6M seed round to accelerate product and go-to-market growth. We are global leaders in edge ML and have validated +150M images on-device for enterprise customers such as Lime. Next, expanding as a horizontal platform across use cases that require real-time speed, high volume and coverage across a wide range of mobile devices.
Role Snapshot
We’re hiring a hands-on Head of Product — the solo product lead today, with a Product Designer reporting to you. You’ll own the roadmap, ship high-impact SDK features, design pilots, build repeatable product processes and recruit our first PM. You’ll work closely with Sales/CS/Engineering and be the product voice for customers. This is a rare chance to scale a product function from the ground up and directly influence ARR. This role reports directly to the CEO (based in New York) — expect fast decisions, visible impact and a close partnership with the founder. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in product management, excellent leadership skills and a proven track record of bringing successful AI products to market.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & vision (30%)
- Define and communicate the product vision and strategy working alongside the CEO
- Collaborate with Machine Learning, Engineering, Data Analytics and Commercial teams to gather and prioritise product requirements in order to achieve the company strategy and goals.
Roadmap development & execution (30%)
- Own the full product lifecycle: you’ll be our sole product lead day-to-day and accountable for product outcomes.
- Ship reliably: write concise, testable specs and acceptance criteria, enforce ticket hygiene, unblock Engineering, publish release notes and run short post-release reviews (PRRs) to validate outcomes.
- Make pilot outcomes measurable: define success metrics, ensure tracking is in place before launch and own the dashboards that show results.
Org build & hiring (15%)
- Hire, onboard and mentor the first Product Manager (target end of Q2); create the PM JD, interview plan and a 30/60/90 onboarding.
- Line-manage the Product Designer and set core product rhythms (1:1s, planning cadences).
Experimentation & measurement (15%)
- Design experiments that measure monetisable outcomes (conversion, pilot → paid, ARR influence). Own hypothesis, experiment design and go/no-go decisions.
- Partner with Data & ML to validate metric integrity and translate experiment results into commercial recommendations.
GTM partnership & pilots (10%)
- Design convertible pilots with Sales/CS: define success criteria and deliver the evidence pack (dashboard, playbook & acceptance tests). Product owns the evidence pack; Sales/CS own negotiation and contracting.
- Act as product sponsor on strategic pilots to remove technical blockers and shorten time-to-value.
What Success Looks Like (First 6 Months)
30 Days: Stabilise and prioritise
- Rapidly map the product surface, backlog, active pilots and outstanding technical debt; meet customers and Sales to surface urgent blockers.
- Deliver a 30/60/90 plan to the CEO that includes one priority revenue experiment and a pragmatic triage of the top 5 product issues to fix immediately.
- Establish immediate visibility: a one-page dashboard for the CEO showing the top metric(s) for active pilots
60 days: Deliver quick wins and start product rhythms
- Ship 1–2 high-impact fixes or small features that demonstrate clear business value or shorten pilot time-to-value.
- Put in place the minimum viable product rhythms (weekly planning, weekly sync, short PRR checklist) and enforce them for the team.
- Ensure instrumentation is in place for any live pilots and that the evidence pack template is used.
90 days: Codify process and hire:
- Own a pilot/feature with a validated outcome (go/no-go) and a recommended roadmap change.
- Codify at least three lightweight process artifacts the team uses (e.g. scoping template, release checklist, decision log).
- Deliver the PM hiring spec and a shortlist plan; begin interviews for the first PM
6 months: Repeatable cadence & handoff readiness
- Product rhythms are running consistently and the team adheres to the decision log.
- Multiple validated experiments and an evidence-pack library for pilots.
- Demonstrable product contribution to pilot → paid or clear ARR influence.
- First PM is onboarded with clear handoff routines and onboarding plan in place.
Example Success Metrics: Incremental ARR influenced, ACV uplift, experiment velocity, median time-to-value for pilots.
Core Requirements
- Typically 7+ years’ product management experience shipping enterprise AI/SaaS features, ideally at fast-moving startups (Series A–C); we prioritise scope and outcomes over exact years.
- Proven solo product leadership — you’ve been the primary product lead on a product area and have hired or mentored PMs.
- Hands-on SDK / developer-facing experience — shipped SDKs/APIs (iOS, Android, React Native), sample apps, docs and integration guides.
- Experience shipping ML/AI features to production; you understand model outputs, evaluation and basic monitoring.
- You write short, testable specs, enforce ticket hygiene and own acceptance criteria.
- Commercial orientation — you’ve supported pilots with measurable commercial outcomes (conversion, ACV, trial → paid).
- Excellent communicator; comfortable reporting to a product-focused CEO and working asynchronously across time zones.
- Based in the UK (London preferred) and able to work from our London office at least 1 day per week.
- Location:
- City Of London
- Job Type:
- FullTime
- Category:
- Business
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