Head of Product (AI)

Octopus Energy; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Octopus Energy is seeking an experienced leader to set the vision and roadmap for customer-facing AI products. You will take AI agents from concept to production, balance market-specific needs, and collaborate with engineering teams to deliver trusted, scalable solutions.

You will build and mentor a multidisciplinary AI product team, ensure compliance with regulations, and drive growth across markets and channels while maintaining focus on real customer problems.

Qualifications

• Proven experience taking AI agents from PoC to scaled, production systems with measurable impact.

Responsibilities

• Set the vision and roadmap for customer-facing AI products across OE.
• Take products from idea to production, hands-on in discovery, prototyping, evaluation and launch, designing agents customers trust.
• Build reusable capabilities that launch in new markets and channels while respecting local requirements, language and regulation.
• Partner with Head of Generative AI on architecture, build-versus-buy and responsible AI, and with local teams on discovery and demos.
• Build and lead a multidisciplinary AI product team as the portfolio grows.

Skills

AI product leadership

Scaling AI agents

Cross-market experience

Engineering collaboration

Regulatory awareness

Ethics in AI

Job description

What you'll do

• Set the vision and roadmap for customer-facing AI products across OE

• Take products from idea to production, hands-on in discovery, prototyping, evaluation and launch, designing agents that customers trust, including when to hand over to a human

• Build reusable capabilities that launch in new markets and channels without starting again, while respecting local requirements, language and regulation

• Partner with the Head of Generative AI on architecture, build-versus-buy and responsible AI, and with local teams on discovery and demos

• Build and lead a multidisciplinary AI product team as the portfolio grows

You'll need

• To be an experienced product leader who has built AI agents at scale

• Proven experience taking AI agents from proof of concept to scaled, customer-facing production, handling large volumes of customer interactions with measurable impact, in an enterprise or a startup

• A strong product track record on complex, technical products, comfortable with evaluation, hallucination risk and cost trade-offs, and able to go deep with engineers

• Hands-on, with experience building and mentoring teams and adapting products to different markets, languages and regulations

• A clear communicator with developers and senior team members, close to end customers, and focused on solving real problems rather than adding AI for its own sake

• Knowledge of AI ethics and regulation, and a close follower of the cutting edge. Energy, utilities or customer operations experience is a plus

Why else you'll love it here

Wondering what the salary for this role is? Once you're in the interview process with one of our recruiters, it's something we always cover as we genuinely want to match your experience with the correct salary. The reason why we don't advertise is because we honestly have a degree of flexibility and would never want salary to be a reason why someone doesn't apply to Octopus - what's more important to us is finding the right octofit!

Octopus Energy Group is aunique culture. An organisation where people learn, decide, and build quicker. Where people work with autonomy, alongside a wide range of amazing co-owners, on projects that break new ground. We want your hard work to be rewarded with perks you actually care about! We were named the UK's top company to work for in 2025, and we ranked in the top ten in the Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2026. Our Group CEO, Greg has recorded a podcast about our cultureand how we empower our people. We’ve also been placed in the top 10 companies for senior leadership

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