Founding Product Lead

Founding Product Lead

blankspace · London, United Kingdom · Full-time · Posted 2026-10-09

Salary: GBP 80,000–120,000

Workplace: on_site

Department: Engineering

Description

We are looking for a Founding Product Lead who leads with customers. Half your week is with publishers and brands; the other half is shipping what they need.

You’ll own everything our customers touch: our platform dashboards, onboarding, reporting, and the loop that turns customer feedback into product. You’ll decide what gets built there, and you’ll build much of it yourself, working agentic-first.

You’ll work closely with our CTO and a Founding Software Engineer, who own the infrastructure, data pipelines and AI side of our product. Knowing what customers need most, and making our product feel exceptional, is what we’re hiring for.

Our structure is intentionally flat, with influence earned through skill & context. Our codebase is shared rather than siloed, and we move fluidly across priorities as a team. We have dozens of agents working alongside us every day, so we go from customer feedback to a shipped change in hours, and learn from it just as quickly. It’s how a small team builds at the pace of one ten times our size.

Requirements

• You’ve owned product direction, not just a backlog. You’ve decided what gets built, what doesn’t & why, and lived with the results.
• You do your best work from a vague brief. Give you “find out what our customers need” and you’ll work out who to talk to, what to test first & what good looks like.
• You come out of a customer call knowing what they need, not just what they asked for.
• You’re commercially minded, thinking about what moves revenue rather than what’s interesting to build, with real ease in customer conversations.

• You care deeply about the end user’s experience. You have a genuine eye for design & product, and notice when a flow has one step too many.

• You’re comfortable in a small, high-trust team, happy to pick up whatever is needed.

Must haves

• 5+ years owning & delivering software products, as a product manager, a product-minded engineer or designer, or a founder.
• You’ve taken products from idea to launch & beyond, working closely with engineers to scope, prioritise & ship, then measured what changed.
• You’re technical enough to go deep with engineers on how things work, and you work agentic-first: you prototype, write specs that AI agents can build from, and don’t wait on an engineer to test an idea.

Benefits

• Early stage equity
• Competitive salary

Apply

Apply at blankspace

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