VP, AI‑First 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 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.