Head of Institutional Product
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About the Role
Smart Bricks is seeking a Head of Institutional Product to lead the product that institutional capital uses to discover, evaluate, and transact real estate assets. You will own the institutional product end-to-end, working at the boundary between AI/engineering teams and institutions.
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Responsibilities
- Lead the institutional product end to end – owning the strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation for how institutional capital discovers, evaluates, and transacts on the platform
- Evolve the institutional workflow – underwriting, evaluation, and transaction – validated against real deployment outcomes
- Translate production AI capability into institutional grade product surfaces that are explainable and trusted
- Partner directly with institutional users to understand their workflows, surface needs, and feed them into the roadmap
- Work closely with engineering and research to shape what gets built and ensure institutional requirements are reflected in the core system
- Define and track metrics that prove institutional value – adoption, capital deployed, retention, and workflow impact
Requirements
- Strong product leadership experience, ideally leading products for institutional, financial, or enterprise users in a high trust, high consequence setting
- Deep understanding of institutional capital workflows – how funds, family offices, or asset managers evaluate and transact at scale
- Comfortable owning a product surface that depends on AI/ML systems, and able to reason about model outputs, explainability, and limitations
- Ability to translate complex technical capability into clear product strategy and user value
- Take full ownership of outcomes – set direction, make calls, accountable for adoption and impact
- Communicate clearly across engineering, research, and external institutions
- Move fast in a small, high trust team without heavy process
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About Smart Bricks
- Smart Bricks is a frontier AI lab building autonomous reasoning systems that allow capital to discover, evaluate, and transact real estate assets end to end.
About The Role
- As Head of Institutional Product, you will lead the product that institutional capital uses to discover, evaluate, and transact at scale.
- You will own the institutional product end to end, working at the boundary between our AI/engineering teams and the institutions that depend on our systems.
What You Will Work On
- Leading the institutional product end to end – owning the strategy, roadmap, and prioritisation for how institutional capital discovers, evaluates, and transacts on our platform
- Evolving the institutional workflow – underwriting, evaluation, and transaction – validated against real deployment outcomes
- Translating our production AI capability – valuation, forecasting, scoring, agentic reasoning – into institutional grade product surfaces that are explainable and trusted
- Partnering directly with institutional users to understand their workflows, surface needs, and feed them into the roadmap
- Working closely with engineering and research to shape what gets built and ensure institutional requirements are reflected in the core system
- Defining and tracking the metrics that prove institutional value – adoption, capital deployed, retention, and workflow impact
We Expect You To
- Have strong product leadership experience, ideally leading products for institutional, financial, or enterprise users in a high trust, high consequence setting
- Deeply understand institutional capital workflows – how funds, family offices, or asset managers evaluate and transact at scale
- Be comfortable owning a product surface that depends on AI/ML systems, and able to reason about model outputs, explainability, and limitations
- Translate complex technical capability into clear product strategy and user value
- Take full ownership of outcomes – you set the direction, make the calls, and are accountable for adoption and impact
- Communicate clearly across engineering, research, and external institutions – you work at the boundary between all three
- Move fast in a small, high trust team without heavy process
Nice to Have
- Background in real estate, capital markets, private markets, or another large, data intensive asset class
- Experience scaling products in regulated or compliance sensitive environments
- Familiarity with AI/ML driven products and the realities of building on top of live models
- Prior experience as an early product hire, operator, or leader in a high growth environment
Why Smart Bricks
- Solve Hard Problems: Lead the institutional product for AI systems that are live in production
- Build What's Next: The product you lead here will shape how institutional capital interacts with one of the world's largest asset classes for decades.
- Ownership and Impact: Small team, no bureaucracy, high trust.
- Learn from the Best: Collaborate with world class engineers, researchers, and operators.
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