Product Lead (Contract)

Story Terrace Inc.; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 101,000 - 166,000; Part time

Job summary

Homesearch is seeking a senior, hands-on product professional for a three-to-six-month fixed-term contract. You will work closely with estate agents to understand the job they hire the product to do, identify friction, and shape a simpler, faster product experience that earns trust across branches.

You will partner with our product delivery manager and designer, set measurable success metrics, and bring independent, evidence-based judgment to steer discovery and roadmap decisions in a

Qualifications

• Senior, hands-on product leader with proven impact.
• Ability to simplify complex problems into product features.
• Experience leading discovery and customer research.

Responsibilities

• Get close to the product by spending real time with agents to understand their job.
• Turn insights into a simpler product experience with delivery manager and designer.
• Set metrics to prove improvements and track engagement.

Skills

Senior

Hands-on

Data-driven

Tools

Analytics tools

Job description

About Us

Every year, hundreds of thousands of homeowners could move but don't, and homes that could sell never reach the market. The property market is slower and more closed than it should be. Homesearch is building the intelligence layer that gets it moving, connecting people, homes and agents through data and AI. Our vision is a fully connected, faster, more open property market.

We're one of the UK's leading PropTech platforms for estate agents, helping them win more listings, understand their local market, and turn existing contacts into new instructions. Our products, including HAILO and ReContact, are picking up real momentum and fast becoming tools agents know and trust. We're a trusted partner to Reapit, Dezrez, Rex, MRI and other leading CRMs, and we're on our way to One Homesearch: a single, unified platform rather than a collection of tools.

About the Role

This is a scoped, fixed-term contract, not a permanent hire. Your first project will be a real, specific product problem. We want you to figure out what to improve and where, and change the impact our customers can have with the software. You'll get closer to our agents than anyone, work out what's getting in their way, and make it effortless. When a product earns agents' trust, they roll it out from a handful of branches to hundreds. That's the prize.

This is a hands-on, executor-level role for three to six months. We're not asking you to build a function or hire a team. We're asking you to get close to the problem and fix it.

What You'll Do

• Get close to the product: spend real time with agents to understand the job they're hiring it to do, and where it currently gets in their way.
• Turn that into a simpler product experience, working alongside our product delivery manager and designer.
• Set the metrics that prove things have improved, and track them through the engagement.
• Bring independent judgement to the team, and challenge with evidence.
• Work through ambiguity. We're a fast-moving team and not everything will be settled around you.

About You

• Senior and hands-on, ready to execute without a function or a team built around you.
• A track record of turning something complex into something simpler: real evidence of removing friction, not just adding features.
• You own discovery and roadmap decisions independently, and lead customer research yourself.
• Strong with data. You self-serve on analytics and decide on evidence, not opinion.
• Confident, not brash: you can challenge senior people with evidence.
• Kind, collaborative, and a genuinely good communicator.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, and quick to work through it rather than wait for it to resolve.
• Fluent with AI day to day, with a real point of view on how to use it to move faster in product work.
• Able to spend some time in our London office each week. Exact days flexible, designed around you.

Extra points for:

• Recent experience shipping AI-enabled or data-rich products.
• Experience introducing product discovery into a founder-led or engineering-led team.
• Experience with products used by non-technical users, or embedded inside third-party platforms.

How We Work

Our values run through everything we do. Remove Friction: make everything seamless. Stay Curious: ask, learn, improve. Own It: take the lead, own the result. Raise the Bar: think big, deliver value. We're high performers who care about the mission and each other. High standards, open communication, and no room for ego or politics.

Contract Details

• Length: three to six months.
• Days: to be agreed, based on your experience and availability.
• Some time in our London Victoria office each week, exact days designed around you.
• A scoped, fixed-term contract, focused on one product problem.