Principal Product Manager

London – 4 days onsite

Up to £150K + bonus

We’re partnered with a Series C stage deep tech company. They’re hiring a Principal Product Manager to help shape the future of its autonomous laboratory platform.

Their platform enables scientists to run experiments more efficiently, scale testing capacity, and improve reliability across critical research and diagnostic processes. Customers include organisations working on drug discovery, genomics, and advanced therapeutic development, where automation plays a direct role in accelerating scientific progress and improving patient outcomes.

Following significant investment and commercial growth, the company is entering a major platform evolution and expansion of its product capabilities.

This hire will play a central role in that journey.

The role

This is a senior individual contributor position with ownership of core platform areas spanning infrastructure, orchestration, and system capabilities.

You will operate across both strategic and executional responsibilities, helping the organisation deliver near-term product milestones while shaping the long-term direction of the platform.

Key responsibilities include:

• Owning roadmap, strategy, and delivery for critical platform capabilities
• Partnering closely with engineering on infrastructure, architecture, and microservices systems
• Supporting major platform migrations and architectural transformation
• Driving execution across complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Supporting product launch readiness, including internal alignment and external positioning
• Helping scale product practices as the organisation transitions to a more product-led model
• Providing clarity, structure, and leadership in a fast-moving environment
• You will join a small, experienced product team with significant ownership and influence.

Candidate profile

This role is suited to a senior Product Manager who is comfortable working in technically complex environments and operating with a high degree of autonomy.

You should have:

• 7+ years of Product Management experience
• Experience owning platform, infrastructure, or technically complex products
• Strong technical fluency and ability to work closely with engineering teams
• Experience working in startup or scaleup environments
• A track record of delivering products in ambiguous or rapidly evolving contexts
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

Additional valuable experience includes:

• Founder or early employee experience
• Exposure to distributed systems, microservices, or platform migrations

This is a lean team where you can add true impact! They’re looking to move quickly so please apply or more info and next steps!