About the team

You’ll run a small group inside our R&D function whose mission is to validate new product bets quickly. We move from is this worth building? to a working prototype in weeks, not quarters. You set the research direction, decide what to build and how, and lead the team to get it in front of users and stakeholders fast. This is a builder‑leader role: roughly hands‑on coding alongside the team, with the rest spent on strategy, planning, and unblocking people.

What you’ll do

• Own the technical vision and execution for a portfolio of PoCs, from initial research through working prototype.
• Lead a small engineering team – set direction, review work, grow people, and keep the group focused and motivated.
• Run lightweight research: scope a problem, survey the landscape, form a hypothesis, and define what a successful prototype must prove.
• Translate fuzzy ideas into concrete plans with clear milestones, then execute...