Savanta is looking for an experienced engineering team lead to lead an agile team building a cutting-edge AI platform for market research.
About Us:
Savanta is a leading data, market research and advisory company helping the world's leading brands make better decisions, faster. With over 500 people across offices in multiple countries, we combine deep research expertise, proprietary technology and high-impact consulting to give our clients a complete view of their markets, their customers and their competitors.
About the Role:
Modern AI has created new possibilities in market research, the ability to use real world market data and AI models to generate synthetic responses to market research questions. You will lead the team responsible for Virtual Personas, Savanta’s synthetic personas solution built using our unique data set.
This role is based in our London office, with the expectation to be onsite 1-3 days per week.
You will lead up to 4 engineers working in a cross functional agile team alongside a product manager, with input from our UX designer and QA teams. The team is to deliver the product roadmap alongside driving further adoption of cloud first technologies; we are Azure based, with PostgreSQL and MongoDB as our primary data stores and a multi-provider LLM stack (OpenAI, Google Gemini and Anthropic).
We want you to dive in, get your hands dirty, and figure things out, but also to be someone your team can rely on for help and guidance when they need it.
Our Tech Team works within a learning and collaborative environment, where empowerment is key to our success, along with developing a culture of innovation and creating an environment where everyone can excel.
This is a great opportunity to lead engineering in a totally new field using cutting edge technology. Virtual Personas sits at the frontier of applied AI in the industry and has the potential to fundamentally change the way market research is done. Savanta intends to be a pioneer in this area and is putting in the investment to ensure that happens.
You’ll also be responsible for:
- Part of a team responsible for setting direction for Virtual Personas
- Delivery of the Product roadmap
- Managing a team consisting of a range of skillsets and experience
- Full stack development, across Python/FastAPI services and React/TypeScript front ends
- Continuously improving the team's processes for iterative development, including embedding automated testing and CI quality gates into a fast-moving AI product
- Championing the responsible and secure use of LLMs - including prompt-injection awareness, defensive design, and sound data handling for personas built on real respondent data
- Setting technical direction for the team
- Interacting directly with customers, understanding their needs, and generalising them
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