Staff Product Engineer / Product Lead - AI-Native Product Role at Inrupt

Staff Product Engineer / Product Lead - AI-Native Product Role at Inrupt

About Inrupt

Sir Tim Berners-Lee created Solid to realize the web as he fully envisioned it. It's an Open Standard that connects people to their data.

Inrupt provides enterprise-grade Solid software and services. Our products are the expression of decades of experience in security, compliance, and operational excellence.

Inrupt powers innovation for the shared benefit of individuals, developers and organizations. We lead a worldwide movement of inventors, investors, technologists, business leaders and governments who are committed to a web that works for everyone.

Governments and corporations are in early stages of deployment, the Company is very well funded and poised for significant scale.

Responsibilities

Product Strategy

• Actively maintain a view of how the market, competition and technologies are evolving, factor this and customer feedback into our product direction

• Prioritize features that accelerate Inrupt Enterprise Solid Server and Data and Agentic Wallet adoption and interoperability for enterprises and government entities

• Define and maintain the product roadmap for applications and infrastructure

• Create data-driven business cases for new solutions across verticals (healthcare, government, retail, financial services)

AI-Native Product Development

• Drive adoption of AI tooling across Product and Engineering organizations

• Implement AI tools (e.g., Lovable, Bolt) to rapidly prototype applications and features

• Utilize AI copilots (e.g., Claude, Qodo) to accelerate specification documentation, schema development, service integration, and engineering product development

• Leverage automated testing frameworks (e.g., Ellipsis, Browserstack)

• Implement intelligent analytics to track adoption, data sharing patterns, and ecosystem growth metrics

• Build AI assistants to enable developers to build ESS-supported applications faster and create automated onboarding flows for organizations adopting ESS

Enterprise & Government Partnership Support

• Lead product initiatives supporting major deployments

• Implement automated compliance mapping for privacy regulations

• Create AI-assisted migration tools for organizations transitioning from centralized to ESS-based architectures

Team Leadership

• Lead the growth of the Product organization

• Foster collaboration between Inrupt's engineering, research, and business development teams

About You

Required

• 5-7+ years of product management or software engineering experience, preferably in data infrastructure, privacy tech, or developer platforms

• Experience with AI/ML tools in product development

• Proven ability to work in mission-driven, technically complex environments

• Ability to translate between technical specifications and business value propositions

Preferred

• Background in identity management, authentication systems, or data interoperability standards

• Knowledge of enterprise data architecture and integration challenges

• Experience using AI tools for technical documentation, API design, or developer experience optimization

What You’ll Bring

• Passion for Tim Berners-Lee's vision of a user-centric web and data management

• Ability to balance idealistic goals of consumer data ownership with pragmatic enterprise needs

• Strong technical communication skills to engage with both developers and C-suite executives

• Systems thinking to design scalable solutions

• Comfort working at the intersection of policy, technology, and user rights

• Excitement about using AI to accelerate the adoption of privacy-preserving technologies

What We Offer

• Opportunity to work directly on technology conceived by the inventor of the World Wide Web

• Shape products that will fundamentally change how billions interact with data

• Collaborate with leading governments, enterprises, and research institutions globally

• Work with a mission-driven team of people revolutionizing the web

• Direct impact on creating a more equitable, privacy-respecting internet

• Utilize cutting-edge AI tools to accelerate development

• The chance to define how AI and decentralized data architectures work together

Bonus
How we will support you

We strive to empower our team members to be self-directed and self-motivated in their work.

  • Remote First: We've always been a fully distributed company with team members all over the world.
  • Commitment to Personal Growth: Every team member has an annual budget to invest in their professional development including an annual conference budget.
  • Work/Life Balance: Flexible working hours and unlimited paid time off. We want you to thrive both in and out of the office. We trust you to use good judgment and take the time off that you need to bring your best self to work.
  • Social Events: As a fully remote company it’s important that we get some time together to socialize and get to know one another outside of the day to day projects and meetings we work on.  Therefore, we organize quarterly online social events e.g remote cooking classes, quizzes etc.
  • Work Anniversary Gifts
  • $800 Office Set-Up Allowance

If you think you might thrive in this environment, we would love to hear from you.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Inrupt provides equal work opportunities to all team members and applicants, and it prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, caste, religion, age, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by our policies or federal, state, or local laws.

We want to ensure that our hiring process is accessible. If you need reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process because of a medical condition or disability, please send an email to jobs@inrupt.com to let us know the nature of your request.

Additional Considerations
  • Sometimes we meet up! Expect some travel: once a year for our all-hands meetup and occasional team meetings throughout the year, usually in London.
  • A successful candidate will be subject to a background check and must receive satisfactory results of the same, as a condition of joining the team.
  • By applying for this role, you confirm that all information submitted is accurate and complete. You further acknowledge that providing false or fraudulent information during the application process is cause for denial of an offer, revocation of any existing offer, or other adverse action, up to and including termination after the start of your commencement of work.
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