Head of Product

Location: India (Remote / Hybrid)

Experience: 10–15+ years

Reports to: Founder / Architect

IMPORTANT: This is not a conventional product role. This role exists to protect governance integrity, audit defensibility, and technical restraint in a regulated-grade system.

Why This Role Exists

We are building an independent, audit-grade System of Record for AI-mediated decision exposure, used by Boards, CROs, and Risk Committees.

This is governance infrastructure, not a growth SaaS product. The role exists to ensure the system never drifts into advisory, remediation, or optimization territory.

Position in the Organization

- Authority over product scope, governance language, and execution boundaries

- Manages backend and automation engineers (including Krishna)

- Works alongside the Architect (who owns the core data model)

- Acts as guardian of correctness and governance intent

Key Responsibilities

1. Product & Governance Authority

- Own governance trigger taxonomy and exposure classifications

- Own all language in audit reports, UI, and documentation

- Enforce descriptive (not prescriptive) outputs

- Explicitly refuse recommendations, remediation, or optimization features

2. Technical Oversight (Non-Architect)

- Review backend designs for immutability and append-only enforcement

- Prevent UPDATE / DELETE on core records

- Block admin override paths and application-level immutability

- Gate schema and data-path changes before Architect review

3. Execution Leadership

- Translate governance intent into technical tasks

- Ensure engineers execute against approved contracts

- Stop shortcuts and escalate architectural decisions upward

4. Audit Product Delivery (Phase 1)

- Deliver AI Decision Exposure Audit v1

- Evidence register and governance trigger mapping

- Oversight gap statement

- Board-safe PDF outputs (no dashboards)

Required Experience (Non-Negotiable)

- 10+ years in product, governance, risk, compliance, or audit systems

- Experience with regulated institutions (banking, insurance, payments, wealth)

- Exposure to audits, regulatory exams, or risk committees

- Ability to read backend designs and identify audit risk

Strong Plus

- Experience with GRC or risk platforms

- Prior interaction with CROs or compliance leadership

- Track record of stopping unsafe features from shipping

Mindset Requirements

- Comfortable saying no

- Values correctness over speed

- Believes constraints are features

- Skeptical of AI hype

What You Will NOT Do

- No growth experiments

- No AI model building

- No recommendations or remediation logic

- No customer promises outside evidence

Why This Role Matters

This role determines whether the platform survives audit scrutiny and earns board-level trust. There is no middle ground.