Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI | AI-Native Product Engineering

UK Remote | Occasional travel to company HQ

£100,000-£120,000

AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, Full-Stack Product Engineering, Tech Leadership

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI - We're working with an established UK consumer technology business that is embarking on a major AI-driven transformation. They have recently migrated their core products onto a new platform and they're now reimagining how the entire business operates, moving away from traditional project-based delivery towards empowered product teams with AI at the heart of how they build and deliver software.

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI

This is a hands-on technical leadership role, leading a small team of approximately 2-3 engineers within a product-focused environment. Working closely with Product and Design, you'll take ownership of the technical direction and delivery of customer-facing products, with shared accountability for the commercial outcomes of your value stream. You'll be expected to use AI agents as a core part of how you design, build, test and ship software, introducing the workflows, context, tooling and feedback loops that enable agents to contribute meaningfully throughout the development lifecycle.

Alongside leading and developing your team, you'll remain close to the code, making architectural decisions, building production software and ensuring quality doesn't get sacrificed for speed. You'll also help establish new ways of working, moving towards an engineering model where coordinating AI agents becomes an increasingly important part of technical leadership.

This is a genuine player-coach position, combining people leadership, technical delivery, product thinking and agentic engineering.

What will the Lead Product Engineer bring?

• Experience as a hands-on Tech Lead, Engineering Manager or Staff-level Engineer with leadership responsibilities.
• Strong software engineering fundamentals and full-stack development capability.
• Demonstrable experience using AI agents extensively to build and ship production software.
• Experience introducing agentic workflows, tooling, context and quality controls.
• A strong product mindset, with experience working closely with Product and Design.
• The ability to lead and develop a small engineering team while remaining technically hands-on.
• Commercial awareness and an interest in measuring engineering success through customer and business outcomes.

Experience with web and mobile products, React, React Native, Expo, modernising legacy applications or building custom agents and MCP integrations would be particularly interesting.

Why This Opportunity?

This is an opportunity to join an established business with the ambition and appetite to completely rethink how it builds technology. You'll have genuine ownership over a product area, the freedom to shape how your team operates and the opportunity to introduce agentic engineering practices that could fundamentally change how software is delivered.

You'll work closely with senior technology leadership and have the opportunity to help establish a new engineering culture, where small, empowered teams use AI agents to deliver more, move faster and stay focused on solving real customer problems.

For a hands-on Lead Product Engineer who enjoys building great products, developing engineers and pushing the boundaries of what's possible with agentic AI, this is a particularly interesting opportunity.

Please reply with your CV or call Simon for a chat.

Lead Product Engineer - Agentic AI | AI-Native Product Engineering

UK Remote | Occasional travel to company HQ

£100,000-£120,000

AI Agents, Agentic Workflows, Full-Stack Product Engineering, Tech Leadership

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.