Senior Product Manager (Contract)

Location: London hybrid (Old St office + remote)

Type: Contractor | Climate Tech & AI | Seed Startup

Day rate: £500 - £700 per day DOE

Start: Feb 2026 with a 3-6 month expected project duration

Days per week: 4-5 days per week

TL;DR:

• CUR8 is looking for a contract Senior Product Manager to join the team. To help us to achieve our ambitious feature growth aims in the first half of 2026.
• Ideal candidates are senior product practitioners, with experience working in fast paced and ambiguous contexts. We want ambitious do'ers who are comfortable jumping into a new domain area and collaborating with others to design and ship new features.
• The role is a hybrid role, working from home but also from our Old Street office (open to discuss number of office days).
• This role has been assessed as outside IR35.

The Role

We’re looking to hire a Senior Product Manager on a freelance basis. The role will be part parental leave cover and also project-specific work to deliver on our H1 roadmap aspirations.

You will work on evolving our gen-AI powered risk models, and our user-facing SaaS product (check out last summer’s launch here ). Working across 1-2 product squads.

You’ll be responsible for:

• Deliver the H1 2026 product roadmap, specifically focusing on the evolution of our Carbon Removal risk models, and recommendation features
• Design and build in market growth experiments to help us to continue to scale, evolve, and pivot our offering.

Product wise, you’ll work on solving multiple product problems and some big challenges - including:

• Simplifying the complex world of Carbon Removals.
• Evolving our gen-AI powered feature set for our users
• Adding to our existing model evaluation and testing approaches

Our Tech Stack

We keep things modern and lean:

• Product tooling: Figma, Linear, Notion, Gemini Pro, Claude Pro, and your choice of vibe coding / prototyping stack
• Front-end: TypeScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS
• Back-end: Go
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Infra: Google Cloud Platform
• Auth: Clerk
• AI: Claude, Gemini, GPT — integrated for LLM-powered features

Requirements

Please treat the below as simply a starting point. If you don’t exactly meet all of the below points but think you’d be really impactful in our team, we want to hear from you.

• You’re available to start in February 2026
• You have 4+ years of direct product management experience including experience building B2B SaaS products.
• You have a strong technical grounding and experience with Large Language Model–based systems and the evaluation tooling that supports them.
• You’re a proactive self-starter who is comfortable dealing with a high degree of ambiguity.
• You can drive exceptional execution across product, engineering, and design - we’re an early stage startup and we’re looking for someone comfortable and adept at delivery as well as feature design.

About CUR8

The science is clear - even if we do everything else right to reduce emissions, the world needs to remove 5-10 Gigatonnes of CO₂ by 2050 . There is no Net Zero without carbon removals.

At CUR8, we’re driven by building the worldwide market for carbon removals. We’re on a mission to facilitate 1Bn tonnes of carbon removed in a single year . Today, we’re doing that through our leading science, procurement, and management platform. Empowering companies and financial institutions across the world with insights, carbon credit portfolios, and software tooling to neutralise their emissions.

About The Team

We’re an experienced and mission-driven group from tech, science, policy, and media. Our team has:

• Built and sold startups
• Advised governments on climate and net zero
• Published in Nature and spoken on TED stages
• Worked at Google, the BBC, New Scientist, and more

We’re small, scrappy, and ambitious — but above all, values-aligned

Benefits

About the perks:

• CUR8 is an equal-opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
• With a little bit of luck, we’ll save the planet (pretty good, isn’t it). But seriously - every time we transact, the world gets a little better.
• We’ll treat you with dignity; competitive compensation, and a culture that’s inclusive for parents and respectful of boundaries (no late night emails!).
• We have our own bright lovely office in Old Street - which you will get to shape alongside us.
• We're hybrid workers, 3 days in the office.

About the process:

Our process aims to give all of us the chance to get to know each other, our aspirations, and whether this is an exciting fit. It starts with an initial chat to tell you more about CUR8, what we’re looking for, and understand more about your goals. It is followed by a 45-min skills-focused interview with our product director.