Type of contract for this position: Permanent contract
The position
Job description
Own the AI layer of Zero Gravity Tutor - prompting strategy, model selection, context architecture, retrieval design, and output quality across every subject and mode
Build and iterate on the systems that make Zero Gravity Tutor genuinely adaptive - coaching that responds to how each student thinks, learns, and prepares
Tackle the hard AI problems: moving from objective subjects into the subjective, solving for evaluation at scale, and maintaining quality as the product expands
Design and run rigorous evals to measure output quality, hallucination rates, and whether the product is actually helping students learn
Prototype new features hands-on - you'll write code, build POCs, and stress-test ideas before committing engineering resource
Own the product roadmap - sequencing bets, setting priorities, and keeping the team focused on what moves the needle for students
Define what success looks like and hold the team to it: clear metrics on every release, honest post-mortems when things don't land, and a bias toward learning fast
Act as the voice of the student and the teacher - run user research, synthesise feedback, and translate real-world insight into product decisions
Work closely with Growth and Commercial to design the loops that turn engaged users into a sustainable, scaling business
Shape the product experience for schools and the educators inside them - a largely unsolved problem, and one Zero Gravity is well-placed to own
Work directly with partner schools and teachers to validate what we're building, gather the insight that shapes the roadmap, and earn the trust that unlocks growth
Help define how Zero Gravity Tutor is packaged and positioned for institutional buyers - working with the commercial team to turn product value into revenue
Champion a culture of curiosity, testing, and learning - challenge assumptions, seek new ideas, and help raise the bar for product excellence
Collaborate closely with the engineering squad - set clear priorities, unblock decisions, and keep pace high
Contribute to Zero Gravity's wider AI strategy, sharing what works in Zero Gravity Tutor across the organisation
🏃♀️ | Monthly Socials: Join us for fun team socials, completely on-the-house. Quarterly, we go big with sports days, BBQs, and more
💻 | Company MacBook: Get the latest Apple gear to stay ahead of the game
💂♀️ | Central London Office: Work from our beautiful Zero Gravity HQ in Barbican/Old Street, while enjoying flexible WFH options
📈 | Share options: Own a piece of Zero Gravity with our 'Zero Gravity For All' options scheme
🎄 | Christmas Shutdown: Enjoy 3 extra festive days off, plus 25 days of annual leave and 8 bank holidays
💳 | Zero Gravity Card: £500 annually to spend on your personal development with your very own Zero Gravity Card
🩺 | Private Healthcare: Extensive private health insurance, including dental, mental health support, and gym discounts
Preferred experience
Proven track record of building AI-powered products - not just bolting a chatbot on, but thinking hard about prompting architecture, model behaviour, and what genuinely good AI UX looks like
Technically hands-on: comfortable enough with code to prototype ideas, run evals, and debug model outputs using AI coding tools. You don't need to be a software engineer, but you should be able to move fast without waiting for one and move towards contributing to the codebase (Ruby, Rails, Javascript, Postgres, and AWS)
Deep understanding of LLM fundamentals - context windows, RAG, prompt engineering, fine-tuning trade-offs, and how to measure model quality rigorously
Strong product instinct with experience owning end-to-end product lifecycles - from discovery and definition through to delivery and iteration - across B2C and/or B2B contexts
Data-driven decision-maker: comfortable with analytics tools (e.g. Metabase, Mixpanel, Google Analytics) and able to define what success looks like before a single line of code is written
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills - able to align engineers, commercial teams, and a founder-CEO behind a clear product direction without a lot of process
Passionate about impact: you care about outcomes, not outputs, and you want the product you build to genuinely change life chances
Nice to have:
Experience in EdTech, consumer subscription apps, or B2B SaaS with an end-user product component
Familiarity with UK education - exam boards, curriculum structure, how schools buy and adopt software
Experience taking a product from early traction to scale - you've navigated the messy middle and know what it takes
Have worked alongside a Growth team and understand how product and growth interlock
Have worked in a company at the 20–50 person stage, where everyone does more than their job title suggests
Recruitment process
Apply via WTTJ
Initial 30 minute interview
Technical round to assess how you approach your work
Values interview with Founder CEO and other team
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