Product Manager

Ankar AI; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative technology company in Greater London seeks a product leader to drive the development of its AI operating system for innovation. The successful candidate will focus on designing reliable product experiences, translating requirements into actionable solutions, and collaborating with engineering and design teams. The ideal applicant has over 4 years of experience in delivering customer-facing products, a strong analytical mindset, and the ability to communicate effectively across varied stakeholders. This role is key to enhancing product quality and impact in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience leading customer-facing products.
• Experience with independent project ownership from discovery to iteration.
• Strong analytical and system thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain scalable product experiences.
• Translate ambiguous requirements into production-ready solutions.
• Deliver quickly and iterate based on customer feedback.

Skills

Product Delivery

Analytical Thinking

Clear Communication

Project Management

Job description

The way companies innovate is broken. The systems built to create and protect ideas can’t keep up with the pace of change. Today, 90% of S&P 500 company value is intangible (e.g., in intellectual property) - yet R&D and IP teams spend half their time buried in manual work, sifting through patents and paperwork instead of pushing the frontier forward. The tools of creating and protecting are stuck in the past. We’re here to fix that.

Ankar is building the AI operating system for innovation, reinventing how companies generate and protect their inventions. Our platform orchestrates how ideas become defensible IP with a suite of AI modules such as patent drafting, office action response, and infringement detection.

We’re at an inflection point:

• We’ve raised >$24M to date from Tier-1 VCs like Atomico, Index Ventures, Norrsken, Daphni, and angels like the Founder of Hugging Face, CEO from Datadog, and Leaders from DeepMind and OpenAI.
• We’re already working with the world’s most innovative companies including Fortune 500 company L’Oréal and global law firm Vorys.
• Expanding our world-class team with alumni from Palantir, Amazon, and BCG to tackle the $1T+ innovation market. We’re just getting started.

We are growing our team and looking for people who take ownership of ambitious projects, solve complex & high-impact problems, and do the best work of their career.

What you’ll be doing

• Build world-class product. Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable systems and user-facing product experiences that customers depend on.
• Translate messy problems into dependable software. Work from first principles to turn ambiguous requirements into clear, maintainable, production-ready solutions.
• Ship fast and iterate constantly. Deliver quickly, learn from real feedback, and refine the product week by week with direct access to customers.
• Own the mission end-to-end. Take full ownership of new product work from design to implementation, release, feedback and iteration.
• Drive clarity, velocity, and long-term quality. Establish patterns, improve feedback practices, and help shape product direction as Ankar’s mission evolves.
• Partner deeply with engineers and customers. Collaborate closely with engineering, design, and customer-facing teams to ensure what we build is useful, usable, and impactful.

What success looks like

• You ship meaningful product improvements weekly and build trust through consistent execution.
• You proactively identify what the product needs next, not just what’s assigned.
• You raise the bar for product quality and velocity through strong prioritization and decision-making.
• You evolve your product strategy and execution plans to scale with users and the business over time.

Qualifications:

• 4+ years of experience leading the end-to-end delivery of customer-facing products.
• Experience owning projects independently, including problem discovery, scoping, execution, rollout, and iteration based on feedback and data.
• Strong analytical and systems thinking: ability to reason across design and engineering constraints, and strive for maintainable product solutions.
• Ability to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, driving alignment across teams.
• Strong product intuition and experience partnering closely with engineering and design to define user workflows and ship high-quality experiences.
• Experience in fast-moving startups or high-ownership environments, with a bias toward action and measurable outcomes.