Staff Research Engineer in United Kingdom

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Here’s a summary of the role: Lead a strong engineering team, deliver software that matters, and help people do the best work of their careers. This is a hands-on team management role for someone who enjoys combining people leadership, technical fluency, and modern AI-enabled ways of working to build reliable products at scale. You’ll lead engineers building secure, scalable microservices and APIs using TypeScript and AWS. You’ll partner closely with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to deliver roadmap outcomes, improve team effectiveness, and create an environment where engineers can grow, own their work, and build high-quality systems with confidence. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do, not all of it, just the important stuff: Lead, coach, and support a team of engineers, creating clarity around priorities, ownership, expectations, and growth goals. Partner with Product, Security, DevOps, and peer engineering leaders to plan and deliver roadmap commitments while balancing quality, pace, and sustainability. Create a healthy delivery environment by improving team processes, removing blockers, supporting planning and estimation, and reinforcing strong engineering practices. Maintain enough technical depth to guide design discussions, challenge risks, review trade-offs, and support the team in building secure and maintainable systems. Use AI tools and encourage responsible AI-assisted ways of working that improve productivity while protecting privacy, security, quality, and good judgment. Support hiring, feedback, performance conversations, and career development so the team continues to grow in capability and confidence. These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview: 8 or more years of software engineering experience, including experience leading projects and supporting or managing engineers in an agile product environment. Experience managing teams that build cloud-native microservices in AWS. Strong people leadership skills, with

Here’s a summary of the role: If you’re a product manager who thrives on turning ambiguity into clarity and wants to shape how organisations handle ethics and compliance in this new AI-enabled era , this role puts you right in the middle of it. You’ll own a whistleblowing and case management platform used by major enterprises, working closely with engineering teams in London and Bangalore to create and ship features that differentiate our product from the competition – from employee reporting tools to AI-powered investigation workflows. This is a fast-moving environment where you’ll need to be comfortable with complexity, technically curious, and confident communicating across every level of the business. It’s a one-year fixed term contract covering maternity leave, with a realistic possibility of extension or permanence for the right person. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff): Own the product roadmap for a whistleblowing and case management platform (Vault/Speak Up), working with one other product manager and a team of 6–12 engineers to define, prioritise, and ship features Work with engineering daily to translate business requirements into well-scoped, deliverable work – managing trade-offs between speed and scope coverage in a fast-moving environment Collaborate across a portfolio of Ethics & Compliance products including policy management, compliance training, and conflicts of interest – ensuring your product connects into a broader vision Engage with product marketing, senior stakeholders, and commercial teams to communicate what you’re building, why it matters, and what’s coming next Conceptualise and shape AI-powered product features – you won’t just be managing a backlog, you’ll be acti

You will own the roadmap for a core part of Diligent’s governance, risk and compliance SaaS platform, shaping how senior leaders and boards collaborate, communicate and make decisions in a secure, modern way. You’ll turn customer problems and market insights into simple, impactful product experiences, and work closely with engineering, design, and go ‑ to ‑ market teams to bring them to life. In this Senior Product Manager role, you’ll spend your time deeply understanding customer needs, prioritising what truly moves the needle, and defining clear success metrics for everything you ship. You’ll lead a cross ‑ functional squad, manage the product backlog, and launch features that drive engagement, adoption and measurable outcomes for our customers across the Diligent Platform. Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff) Own and continuously refine the product roadmap for your area, using customer insight, data and market trends to prioritise what to build next. Define and drive product strategy that aligns with Diligent’s vision for modern governance, connecting your roadmap to clear business and customer outcomes. Act as the voice of the customer: run discovery, validate problems and solutions, and translate insights into clear user stories and product requirements. Lead an agile, cross ‑ functional team (engineering, UX, product marketing, sales, customer success) to design, build and launch high ‑ quality SaaS features. Set goals, KPIs and success metrics for your product, track performance and user engagement, and iterate based on what the data and customers tell you. Tackle complex product and execution challenges by breaking down ambiguous problems, navigating trade ‑ offs, and making clear, data ‑ informed decisions. These are the essentials you’