Head of Product

Location: In person, Central London, 4-5 days in office
Type: Full-Time
NB: We are able to sponsor visas
Note on Salary: For exceptional candidates with strong product impact and relevant experience, we are open to offering compensation above the specified range.

Arva AI is revolutionising financial crime intelligence with our cutting-edge AI Agents. By automating manual human review tasks, we enhance operational efficiency and help financial institutions handle AML reviews, while cutting operational costs by 85%.

As Head of Product
, you will own and drive the product strategy, delivery and execution of our AI Agent platform. You'll sit at the intersection of customers, engineering, and commercial teams, ensuring we deliver exceptional customer value today while making the right long-term bets as we scale.

As Head of Product
, you will:

• Own the end-to-end product roadmap, balancing near-term customer impact with long-term strategic initiatives.
• Set and uphold the product bar across the company, ensuring clarity, focus, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner closely with engineering, research, GTM, and leadership to translate strategy into shipped product.

Product Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and own the product vision and roadmap, grounded in customer needs, regulatory realities, and Arva's long-term mission.
• Make clear trade-offs and prioritisation decisions, backed by data and strong product intuition.

Delivery & Execution

• Coordinate and track delivery across teams, including planning, dependencies, milestones, and accountable owners.
• Ensure product initiatives ship on time, with high quality, and with clear ownership.

Customer Value

• Develop a deep understanding of customer workflows in AML, compliance, and risk.
• Validate problems and solutions through customer discovery, feedback loops, and real-world usage.

Outcomes & Metrics

• Define success metrics and hold the organisation accountable to outcomes such as adoption, customer impact, and operational efficiency.
• Continuously assess what's working, what isn't, and raise the bar across the product.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Work hand-in-hand with engineering and AI teams to shape feasible, scalable solutions.
• Partner with GTM teams to support positioning, launches, and customer-facing narratives.

Deliver Value Fast

Speed starts with clarity. We first understand what value actually means, for the customer, the business, or the system, and then take the shortest credible path to delivering it. We move quickly without cutting corners on quality, security, or trust.

Outcome Obsessed

We obsess over details and take full ownership of wider outcomes, not just tasks. We think like the user, execute with rigor, and validate that every detail works in real conditions. If something falls short, we fix it properly and prevent recurrence, always raising the bar.

Relentless Urgency

We move with urgency because time matters. We prioritise what truly moves the outcome, make decisions with imperfect information, and act decisively. Urgency means focus, momentum, and driving meaningful progress without unnecessary delay.

Experience

• 5+ years in product management or product leadership roles, ideally in B2B SaaS or regulated industries.

Product Leadership

• Proven experience owning a product roadmap and shipping complex products end to end.
• Strong judgment around prioritisation, sequencing, and trade-offs.

Customer & Outcome Focus

• Deep empathy for users and a track record of delivering measurable customer and business impact.

Execution Excellence

• Highly organised, with experience coordinating delivery across multiple teams and stakeholders.

Communication & Collaboration

• Clear, concise communicator who can align engineers, executives, and commercial teams around a shared plan.

Ownership

• Comfortable taking full responsibility for outcomes, decisions, and results.

• Be part of an early-stage startup with significant ownership and influence over product direction.
• Shape the core product of a company transforming financial crime and compliance.
• Work with a driven, mission-focused team building real-world, high-impact technology.
• Work from anywhere in the world for 4 weeks a year, in addition to regular team off-sites.
• Competitive salary and equity package, with bi-annual salary review and yearly performance-based equity refresh.

If you're excited to define and lead products that reshape how compliance works, we'd love to hear from you.