Our Mission: become the ultimate intelligence layer behind every major investment decision.
Junior is building the AI intelligence platform for high-stakes investment research. We’re profitable, growing quickly and trusted by leading firms. We’re looking for a hands-on Product Manager to take important customer problems from discovery through to products people use.
Junior is building the AI operating system for investment research.
Private equity teams, consultants and financial institutions spend huge amounts of time gathering evidence, interviewing experts, analysing markets and turning research into decisions. Junior brings that work into one platform: from research and expert interviews to synthesis, market mapping and memo writing.
Our customers use Junior to do high-stakes work faster, while keeping the evidence connected to the output. The platform saves an average of 60 hours per due diligence project and is used by 20 of the 30 largest PE firms and 18 of the 20 leading strategy consultancies, including the likes of PwC, L.E.K., and Oliver Wyman.
We’re expanding the product into more of the work investment teams do, including investment banking, hedge funds and other research-intensive financial firms.
You’ll help build the tools investment teams use to research companies and make decisions. Current work includes:
Voice interviews: Build tools that help experts share useful answers, including voice interviews, better follow-up questions and more accurate transcripts.
Research and search: Help customers find the right facts across projects, companies and topics.
Slides and reports: Turn research into clear, ready-to-use slides that work with different company templates.
Surveys and research workflows: Make it easier to plan research, collect answers and turn them into useful results.
Desktop and mobile apps: Make Junior easier to use wherever customers do their work.
Finance and compliance: Build tools that help finance teams sort calls and spot sensitive information.
You’ve taken a product from an early idea to launch and beyond. You can explain what you owned, the choices you made, what you learned and the impact it had.
You have 4+ years of product experience in a fast-moving team. You’ve shipped weekly or monthly and learned from real customer use.
You’re close to customers. You enjoy talking with users and senior leaders, understand their needs and turn their feedback into clear priorities. You’re also comfortable joining customer calls with Sales and Customer Success.
You get things done. You make good trade-offs, focus on what matters for the first version and keep work moving without adding extra process.
You’re comfortable with technology. You’re curious about how AI products work and can use tools like Claude Code to test ideas and make quick prototypes.
You communicate clearly. You can explain complex ideas in simple terms, write focused product plans and give demos that make people want to use the product.
You’re based in New York City and happy to work from the office five days a week.
Bonus: You’ve worked in consulting or use AI tools regularly.
The business is already working: Junior is bootstrapped, profitable and at ~$30M RRR.
There’s plenty left to build: We’re expanding the product into new investment workflows while continuing to improve the core platform.
You’ll own real product work: You’ll take a substantial product area from understanding the customer problem through to launch, adoption and iteration.
You’ll work closely with the people building it: Product works directly with users, design, engineering, sales and customer success.
The product has high stakes: Customers rely on Junior for important decisions, so accuracy, reliability and trust matter.
The team is growing with the business: Junior has 75 people across New York, London and Sydney, with an expanding product team.
You can see the impact: You’ll hear directly from customers and see how your decisions affect their work.
You’ll join a product team with two individual-contributor PMs, working closely with the CTO, designers and engineers. You’ll also partner with sales and customer success, and speak directly with customers and users.
The team currently owns around eight product areas between them. As Junior expands its product surface, you’ll take ownership of a substantial area and help shape what gets built next.
Understand customer workflows and identify the problems worth solving.
Run customer discovery and speak directly with users.
Bring together evidence from customer conversations, demos, pilots, support and product data.
Set product direction and priorities for your area.
Scope focused MVPs and decide what needs to be excellent at launch.
Prototype ideas and work with Design to shape the user experience.
Partner with Engineering throughout development and make clear trade-offs together.
Define what success looks like, measure results and decide what to improve next.
Build adoption by understanding how customers use the product and where they get stuck.
You’ll be responsible for the product outcome, not just the roadmap or requirements document.
Start with the customer: talk to users yourself and understand the work they’re trying to get done.
Build and learn quickly: we aim for short shipping cycles, useful feedback and regular iteration.
Use judgment on scope: get the details right when accuracy, reliability or customer trust is at stake. For other things, ship a focused first version and improve it with real usage.
Work closely with the team: Product, Design and Engineering shape solutions together.
Make decisions clear: explain the problem, the trade-offs and how you’ll know whether the work succeeded.
Use the tools available: prototype ideas with tools such as Claude Code or Codex when that helps the team explore a solution faster.
This role is based in New York City and works in person five days a week. Junior’s wider team is split across New York, London and Sydney.
We want you to do great work, feel good while doing it and have time to recharge. Full-time employees get:
Real time to switch off: PTO plus a two-week office break over Christmas
Health cover: Medical, dental and vision coverage
A stronger start on retirement: A 401(k) with a 3.5% company match
A gym membership at Equinox
Good food at the office: Breakfast, lunch, snacks and drinks
Help with your commute: $300 per month in commuter benefits
Dinner and a ride home when you’re working after 8pm
Quarterly company off-sites each year! to the likes of Barcelona, Cancun, Texas, and Crete!
We’re building cutting-edge LLM-powered workflow tools to supercharge investment research for private market investors and consultants. Our clients include most of the global top 10 private equity and consulting firms - Junior already powers hundreds of billions of dollars invested annually. We’re a profitable, bootstrapped company with a growing team of 70+ based in London, NYC and Sydney.
You can read more about the company mission & values here.
This is Junior's first dedicated legal hire. You'll own the legal, regulatory and compliance function: closing our largest contracts, and building on the standards, playbooks and function that let us sell to major private equity, consulting and financial institutions. You'll work directly with the founders and sit at the centre of commercial, product, security and corporate decisions. It will suit someone who is energised by building a function from scratch.
Lead and negotiate our most important commercial agreements: enterprise MSAs, data-processing and data-licensing terms, and security schedules with global banks, advisors and content providers. Set the standards and playbooks that let the deal team move fast without adding risk
Build Junior’s AI-governance and compliance posture: recording-consent and two-party-consent frameworks across jurisdictions, model-training and data-use policies, and readiness for evolving AI regulation (including the EU AI Act)
Run data privacy end to end (UK GDPR, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA): DPAs, records of processing, sub-processor management, and privacy-by-design partnership with Product and Engineering
What you’ll oversee, with the support of external counsel where necessary
Partner with Security/CISO on customer trust: SOC 2, security questionnaires, DPIAs and the contractual commitments behind them
Build and protect IP: trade-secret and patent strategy across our transcription and knowledge-graph technology, and IP terms in customer and vendor contracts
Manage corporate and financing legal work: governance, board and cap-table support, financing rounds, and day-to-day vendor contracting
Support people operations: employment matters and immigration/visa work as we scale internationally
You're admitted to a US bar. The majority of our commercial contracts are US-governed, and this is a hard requirement
5-8 years of experience spanning private practice and in-house roles, with a strong transactional and commercial foundation. At least 2-4 years in practice
At least 2-4 years in-house experience at an AI, SaaS, or data-intensive technology company. You understand what it means to advise a business that is simultaneously a data processor and a data innovator
Deep expertise in data privacy: GDPR, UK GDPR, US equivalents, DPA negotiation, and subprocessor obligations. This is a recurring and substantive part of the role
A track record of negotiating complex B2B contracts with large institutional buyers, ideally in financial or professional services. You understand how their procurement and legal functions operate and where there is room to move
The ability to interpret contract language quickly and translate it into clear, actionable guidance for sales, product, and infosec colleagues. Speed and clarity matter as much as legal rigour
Comfortable operating as a sole legal function, with the judgment to know when to handle something internally and when to engage outside counsel
Strong commercial instincts. We are looking for a legal partner who helps the business move forward, not one who defaults to caution
UK law experience is helpful but not required. Some cross-jurisdictional awareness is important given our UK entity and global European client base
Junior is building the ultimate AI intelligence platform for high-stakes investment research.
Our software helps private equity firms, consultants and financial institutions complete high-stakes research workflows dramatically faster - from diligence and memo writing to market mapping, research synthesis and strategic analysis.
We’re building toward a future where AI can run substantially more of that work: conducting research, understanding evidence and producing outputs customers can use to make decisions.
Bootstrapped and profitable
~$30M+ Revenue Run Rate, after growing 10x last year
75+ people across New York, London and Sydney
25-person engineering team across six teams
Our engineering team has grown from a headcount of 6 to 25 this year so far
Trusted by the world's leading PE firms, consultancies, and financial institutions
Core stack: TypeScript, Next.js and PostgreSQL
AI-assisted development has already changed how quickly we can build. Our current engineering team operates with the output of a much larger organization - and that pace is only increasing.
We’re now looking for someone to build the engineering organization for Junior’s next chapter.
You’ll report to our CTO, Nico, and own the day-to-day operations of engineering: people, planning, delivery, reliability and recruiting.
The CTO will continue to own product and technology direction, frontier experimentation, AI-native development and consequential long-term architecture.
You’ll turn that direction into results.
You’ll have the authority to challenge scope, sequencing and commitments when they aren’t credible - and the responsibility to make sure the organization delivers on the ones it makes.
This is not a role where you spend your first three months observing from the sidelines.
You will begin by doing the work:
Ship high-quality production code
Learn our systems and development tools
Join architecture and debugging discussions
Work directly with engineers, Product and customers
Take an on-call shift
Build firsthand context before changing how the organization operates
You’ll progressively take ownership of engineering operations, but this will remain a deeply technical leadership role. You’ll stay close to the code, architecture and important production problems.
Delivery: Set clear priorities, owners and achievable scope across Engineering, Product and Design
Engineering leadership: Develop hands-on Engineering Leads who can run strong, autonomous teams
Organization design: Build a lean organization capable of growing toward 40–60 engineers where the business justifies it
Recruiting: Own engineering hiring and help us maintain a very high technical bar as the team grows
People: Lead feedback, performance and development while giving excellent ICs room to grow without becoming managers
Reliability: Establish clear ownership of critical systems, improve incident response and eliminate recurring failures
Engineering effectiveness: Remove friction across tooling, testing, reviews and delivery
AI-native development: Turn AI-assisted engineering into measurable improvements in speed and quality
Financial ownership: Own engineering’s infrastructure, tooling and AI spend - and be accountable for the value we get from it
The goal is not to add process for the sake of it. It’s to introduce structure where it helps us move faster - and remove it when it doesn’t.
You’ve shipped meaningful production code
You understand the systems, team and customers
You’ve earned technical trust across the organization
You’ve established clear operating baselines
You’ve identified a small number of high-impact improvements grounded in firsthand experience
You own routine engineering operations and most engineering recruiting
Every team has clear ownership and strong leadership
Commitments are more credible and risks surface earlier
The CTO spends substantially less time assigning work and chasing project updates
Engineering ships faster with fewer recurring failures
Engineers still have autonomy, direct founder access and room to pursue ambitious ideas
The impact of engineering work is clearly connected to customer and business outcomes
You’re still deeply technical and can write production code, understand unfamiliar systems and debug difficult problems
You’ve led engineering teams through meaningful growth and ambiguity
You can point to specific improvements you’ve made across delivery, reliability and organizational clarity
You’ve hired excellent engineers and developed strong ICs and engineering leaders
You’re comfortable giving difficult feedback and making performance decisions
You know when management and process help - and when they get in the way
You’ve built software where reliability, security and customer trust genuinely matter
You use AI development tools thoughtfully and have strong views on how they will change engineering teams
You can challenge a highly technical founder constructively
You want to work closely with Product, customers and the codebase
You’re based in New York, or committed to relocating, and excited to work with the team in person
We care far more about what you’ve personally built, owned and improved than your previous title.
Prior VP or Head of Engineering experience is not required.
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Our current engineering team operates with the output of a much larger organization - and that pace is only increasing.\n\nWe’re now looking for someone to build the engineering organization for Junior’s next chapter.\n\n\n\n\n💡 THE ROLE\n\n - You’ll report to our CTO, Nico https://www.linkedin.com/in/nimo-1/, and own the day-to-day operations of engineering: people, planning, delivery, reliability and recruiting.\n\n - The CTO will continue to own product and technology direction, frontier experimentation, AI-native development and consequential long-term architecture.\n\n - You’ll turn that direction into results.\n\n - You’ll have the authority to challenge scope, sequencing and commitments when they aren’t credible - and the responsibility to make sure the organization delivers on the ones it makes.\n\nThis is not a role where you spend your first three months observing from the sidelines.\n\nYou will begin by doing the work:\n\n - Ship high-quality production code\n\n - Learn our systems and development tools\n\n - Join architecture and debugging discussions\n\n - Work directly with engineers, Product and customers\n\n - Take an on-call shift\n\n - Build firsthand context before changing how the organization operates\n\nYou’ll progressively take ownership of engineering operations, but this will remain a deeply technical leadership role. You’ll stay close to the code, architecture and important production problems.\n\n\n\n\n🎯 WHAT YOU’LL OWN\n\n - Delivery: Set clear priorities, owners and achievable scope across Engineering, Product and Design\n\n - Engineering leadership: Develop hands-on Engineering Leads who can run strong, autonomous teams\n\n - Organization design: Build a lean organization capable of growing toward 40–60 engineers where the business justifies it\n\n - Recruiting: Own engineering hiring and help us maintain a very high technical bar as the team grows\n\n - People: Lead feedback, performance and development while giving excellent ICs room to grow without becoming managers\n\n - Reliability: Establish clear ownership of critical systems, improve incident response and eliminate recurring failures\n\n - Engineering effectiveness: Remove friction across tooling, testing, reviews and delivery\n\n - AI-native development: Turn AI-assisted engineering into measurable improvements in speed and quality\n\n - Financial ownership: Own engineering’s infrastructure, tooling and AI spend - and be accountable for the value we get from it\n\nThe goal is not to add process for the sake of it. It’s to introduce structure where it helps us move faster - and remove it when it doesn’t.\n\n\n\n\n🚀 WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE\n\n\nIN YOUR FIRST 90 DAYS\n\n - You’ve shipped meaningful production code\n\n - You understand the systems, team and customers\n\n - You’ve earned technical trust across the organization\n\n - You’ve established clear operating baselines\n\n - You’ve identified a small number of high-impact improvements grounded in firsthand experience\n\n\nBY SIX MONTHS\n\n - You own routine engineering operations and most engineering recruiting\n\n - Every team has clear ownership and strong leadership\n\n - Commitments are more credible and risks surface earlier\n\n - The CTO spends substantially less time assigning work and chasing project updates\n\n - Engineering ships faster with fewer recurring failures\n\n - Engineers still have autonomy, direct founder access and room to pursue ambitious ideas\n\n - The impact of engineering work is clearly connected to customer and business outcomes\n\n\n\n\n🔥 ABOUT YOU\n\n - You’re still deeply technical and can write production code, understand unfamiliar systems and debug difficult problems\n\n - You’ve led engineering teams through meaningful growth and ambiguity\n\n - You can point to specific improvements you’ve made across delivery, reliability and organizational clarity\n\n - You’ve hired excellent engineers and developed strong ICs and engineering leaders\n\n - You’re comfortable giving difficult feedback and making performance decisions\n\n - You know when management and process help - and when they get in the way\n\n - You’ve built software where reliability, security and customer trust genuinely matter\n\n - You use AI development tools thoughtfully and have strong views on how they will change engineering teams\n\n - You can challenge a highly technical founder constructively\n\n - You want to work closely with Product, customers and the codebase\n\n - You’re based in New York, or committed to relocating, and excited to work with the team in person\n\nWe care far more about what you’ve personally built, owned and improved than your previous title.\n\nPrior VP or Head of Engineering experience is not required."}],"apiVersion":"1"}