At a Glance
- Tasks: Define product vision and shape developer experiences at the forefront of AI.
- Company: Join a pioneering tech company focused on reaching Artificial General Intelligence.
- Benefits: Enjoy remote work, flexible hours, generous vacation, and health insurance allowances.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team that values kindness and intellectual curiosity.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by building innovative tools for developers in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Strong product intuition, coding experience, and familiarity with developer workflows required.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
ABOUT POOLSIDE
In this decade, the world will create Artificial General Intelligence. There will only be a small number of companies who will achieve this. Their ability to stack advantages and pull ahead will define the winners. These companies will move faster than anyone else. They will attract the world's most capable talent. They will be on the forefront of applied research, engineering, infrastructure and deployment at scale. They will continue to scale their training to larger & more capable models. They will create powerful economic engines. They will obsess over the success of their users and customers. Poolside exists to be this company: to build a world where AI will be the engine behind economically valuable work and scientific progress.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
We were founded in the US and have our home there, but our team is distributed across Europe and North America. We get our fix of in-person collaboration in Paris each month for 3 days, always Monday-Wednesday, with an open invitation to stay the whole week. We also do longer off-sites once a year. Our team is a multidisciplinary blend of research, engineering, and business experts. What unites us is our deep care for what we build together. We’re in a race that requires hard work, intellectual curiosity, and obsession; to balance this intensity, we’ve assembled a team of low ego and kind-hearted individuals who have built the special culture Poolside has.
ABOUT THE ROLE
This is a role for someone who wants to define what gets built, not just how it looks. You'll own product vision in 0-to-1 spaces, working at the frontier of what Poolside should build next, translating ambiguous problems into clear product direction, and prototyping fast to validate ideas before they become roadmap. You'll work closely with engineering and leadership, partnering tightly with our product design team to shape experiences that sit at the intersection of frontier AI and developer tooling.
YOUR MISSION
To forge the product direction for Poolside's developer experience, defining what we build at the frontier of AI and software development.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Own product vision in 0-to-1 spaces, defining what Poolside should build and translating ambiguous problems into clear, buildable direction.
- Lead design, experimentation, and proof-of-concepts that explore what's next for developer tools, feeding insight back into the product roadmap.
- Partner with Product Engineering to move ideas from concept to shipped product, working at both the strategic and the granular level.
- Prototype rapidly and validate early; you're as comfortable in code as you are in a design tool.
- Collaborate with designers and the wider design team to ensure product thinking is consistent and well-resourced across Poolside's surfaces.
- Shape how Poolside shows up externally as a product, including how developers first encounter our work.
SKILLS & EXPERIENCE
- Strong product intuition with a history of defining what to build, not just how to build it.
- A genuine history of building with code: scripts, tools, personal projects shipped from scratch.
- Genuine familiarity with developer workflows: version control, local environments, the command line, deployment pipelines.
- Deep experience designing for developer tools specifically, not general consumer or enterprise products.
- Strong visual craft. You produce polished, high-quality UI and can hold a high bar across the full product experience.
- Comfortable with rapid prototyping, research, and proof-of-concepts.
- Highly autonomous: you set your own direction, bring others along on your thinking, and make good decisions in ambiguity.
PROCESS
- Intro call with one of our Designers
- Design interview with a Design Engineer (Product). Come with 1–2 projects you forged, not just executed
- Technical interview with a Product Engineer. Expect questions on how you build and think about developer workflows
- Team fit call with the People team
- Final interview
BENEFITS
- Fully remote work & flexible hours
- 37 days/year of vacation & holidays
- Health insurance allowance for you & dependents
- 16 weeks of flexible, full-pay parental leave
- Well-being, always-be-learning & home office allowances
- Company-provided equipment
- Frequent team get togethers
- Diverse & inclusive people-first culture
Remote Member of Engineering (Design Engineer, Product) in Woking employer: poolside
At Poolside, we are committed to fostering a dynamic and inclusive work environment that empowers our team members to thrive. With fully remote work options, generous vacation policies, and a strong focus on employee well-being, we ensure that our engineers can balance their professional ambitions with personal growth. Our unique culture, characterised by low ego and kindness, combined with regular team gatherings in vibrant locations like Paris, makes Poolside an exceptional place for those looking to make a meaningful impact in the world of AI and software development.
