Head of Product Engineering

Ohme; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

London office 3 days a week

Private health insurance

Pension scheme

Life assurance 4x salary

Income protection

Ride to work

Season ticket loan

Eye tests

Job summary

Ohme is seeking a senior Head of Product Engineering to lead the squads building the customer and partner‑facing smart charging experience. You will set technical direction, shape the operating model, and grow leaders, with a core focus on embedding AI capabilities to make charging cheaper, greener and simpler.

You will partner with multiple facets of Ohme’s ecosystem to turn customer needs into roadmaps, elevate engineering practices, and ship reliably at pace.

Qualifications

• 6+ years leading multiple squads in product-led environments.
• Experience shipping customer-facing products and AI-enabled portals.
• Strong cloud/distributed systems knowledge, with architectural maturity.

Responsibilities

• Define multi-year architecture vision for portals and services.
• Pair with Product leadership to balance ambition, feasibility and architectural integrity.
• Define and drive squad operating model, planning cadence and decision rights.
• Set engineering standards in an AI-first ecosystem: Agile, CI/CD, testing, AI-assisted coding and guardrails.
• Run on-call design, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks and post-incident reviews; ensure safe releases.
• Recruit exceptional talent, onboard effectively, coach team leads, build a high accountability culture.
• Own the developer experience stack and tooling to improve velocity and quality.
• Report progress on product/roadmap delivery, risk, quality to senior leadership.
• Collaborate with CEO and senior leadership to shape broader business strategy with technical insight.

Skills

Leadership

Architectural judgement

Cloud systems

AI/ML in production

JVM knowledge

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder communication

People leadership

Job description

Ohme is on a mission to accelerate the global transition to clean, affordable energy. We do that by serving as an integrated hardware and software smart-grid platform, focused on the residential EV charging market.

The worlds of energy, transport and artificial intelligence are colliding and Ohme is at the heart of this new era. By using technology and data integrations to connect cars, chargers, people, energy providers and more, Ohme has a powerful platform that puts the consumer at the core.

Ohme has been selling its chargers to consumers since mid 2019 and has had exponential growth since. We are now operating in multiple countries and have partnerships with the likes of VW Group, Hyundai, Volvo, Octopus Energy, and other innovative brands.

We are scaling up the business and are building out the team for rapid growth. If you’re interested joining a fast-growing cleantech venture on a data and AI-first journey to speed up the global transition to clean, affordable energy, read on!

We're hiring a strategicHead of Product Engineering to lead the squads building Ohme's customer and partner facing smart charging experience — the apps, services, portals and platforms our drivers and partners touch every day. You’ll set technical direction, shape the operating model, and grow leaders. This is a senior leadership role with minimal hands-on coding, focused instead on technical direction, organisational design, and operational excellence across our digital backbone. A core focus is embedding AI capabilities that make charging cheaper, greener, and simpler.
You’ll partner with all facets of Ohme’s ecosystem to turn customer needs into well‑vetted roadmaps, elevate engineering practices, and ship reliably at pace. This role is ideal for a systems‑minded leader who enjoys solving complex real-life problems, fostering alignment, and scaling teams.
Key Responsibilities

• Technical strategy & architecture: Own the multi‑year architecture vision across portals and services.
• Operate as Product's closest counterpart: pair with Product leadership to balance ambition, feasibility and architectural integrity, and ensure squads are organised around customer or partner outcomes rather than technical components.
• Org & operating model: Define, drive, measure and optimise how squads work (charters, decision rights, planning cadence, cross‑squad interfaces) to enable dependable product delivery.
• Process & practices: Set engineering standards in an AI first eco‑system: Agile, CI/CD, automated testing, AI assisted coding, documentation and architectural guardrails.
• Reliability & incidents: Run on‑call design, SLIs/SLOs, runbooks and post‑incident reviews; ensure crisp bug escalation for customer and partner impacting issues and safe, progressive releases.
• People & growth: Recruit exceptional talent, design effective onboarding, coach team leads, set a motivating team vision, and build an inclusive, high accountability culture.
• Procurement & tooling: Own the developer experience stack and vendor choices to improve velocity and quality.
• Business reporting: Provide transparent updates on product/roadmap delivery, risk, quality and strategic progress to senior leadership.
• Leadership: Collaborate with the CEO and senior leadership as a strategic partner, providing bold ideas, constructive challenge, and operational focus. Shape and influence the broader business strategy through deep technical insight.

Who you are

• Confident people leader with 6+ years guiding multiple squads in product‑led environments, ideally B2C and B2B2C.
• Instinct for the customer: you connect engineering decisions to user experience and commercial outcomes, and you've shipped products people actually use.
• Demonstrable knowledge in cloud/distributed systems ideally in JVM at high‑scale, product‑first company.
• You’ll partner closely with other leaders in the tech organisation.
• Track record embedding AI/ML in production systems and portals tied to measurable customer outcomes.
• Strong architectural judgement and operational maturity.
• Confident challenging requirements and explaining trade‑offs to non‑technical stakeholders.
• Exceptional collaborator with cross‑functional stakeholders.
• Culture‑builder who recruits well, onboards effectively, and motivates through clarity, purpose and growth.

Benefits

You’ll get to work in a fast‑paced and rapidly growing scale‑up with global ambitions that is cutting edge, passionate about sustainability and seeks to make the world a better place.

Our benefits:

• Competitive salary and bonus
• London Office - 3 days a week in the office
• Private Health Insurance
• Pension Scheme
• Life Assurance Scheme with death in service benefit of 4x salary
• Income Protection Scheme for long term illness
• Ride to Work Scheme
• Payroll Giving Scheme
• Season Ticket Loan to spread cost of travel over 12 months
• Eye Test every 2 years

Ohme is an equal opportunity employer. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are at the heart of what we do and we encourage a culture where everyone can be themselves at work. We actively seek out a diverse range of talent and our policies ensure that every job application and employee is treated fairly, with equal opportunity to succeed and to feel included.