Product recruitment · London
Product recruitment agency in London.
Founder-led product recruitment for London startups and scale-ups. Every candidate is technically screened by us before you see a CV, so your interview time goes on people who can do the job.
Hiring product managers in London
Product hiring in London spans consumer, fintech and B2B SaaS, and the bar is high: teams want product managers who pair commercial judgement with real technical fluency. Senior PMs and group product roles are the hardest to fill, because the strongest people are usually happy where they are, so the search is as much about attraction as assessment.
We take time to understand what good looks like for your stage and your product, then run a process that respects candidates and sells your mission honestly. Every shortlist is built on evidence and fit, not keyword-matched CVs. We can also help you calibrate the level, whether the role is genuinely senior or better pitched as a strong mid-level PM.
For current pay, see the London tech salary guide. Ready to hire? Tell us the role.
Active desk
Product searches we are running in London.
1 live search right now, each technically screened by us. Hiring something similar? Tell us the role. Looking for a role yourself? Our open roles are all here.
How it works
How we run a product search in London.
- 1 Brief
A call with a founder to scope the product role: the work, the level, the package and what good looks like in London.
- 2 Search
We approach our network and the passive market. Most strong candidates are not applying anywhere.
- 3 Screen
A founder interviews every candidate technically before you see them, and writes up the evidence.
- 4 Shortlist and close
You interview a short list of people who can do the job. We manage offers, counter-offers and notice periods through to start.
“OpenSource was able to service all of our hiring needs and has left our teams in a really strong place. Their integration into our business was seamless.”
FAQ
Product recruitment in London, answered.
How do you assess product managers before shortlisting them in London?
We look for evidence rather than vocabulary: a product the candidate actually shipped, the decision they got wrong and what they changed, how they worked with engineers, and whether their commercial judgement matches your stage. Each shortlist comes with a written summary of that conversation.
Which product roles do you recruit in London?
Product managers from mid-level to group and head of product, product leads for founder-led teams making their first product hire, and VP Product and CPO roles, which we run as retained searches.
How quickly can OpenSource deliver a product shortlist in London?
For most product roles in London we come back with a technically screened shortlist within days of agreeing the brief. We screen every candidate ourselves before you see them, so the time you spend is on interviews, not on filtering CVs.
Do you recruit product roles in London on a contingent or retained basis?
Both. Most individual product hires in London run contingent, where you pay only on a successful placement. Leadership and business-critical searches run retained, with a committed process and full market mapping. Teams hiring several roles at once often prefer an embedded arrangement, where one of the founders works inside your team for a fixed period.
Where in London is OpenSource based?
Our office is at Aldwych House in Midtown, between the City and the West End. We meet London clients and candidates there in person whenever it helps, and we run hybrid and remote searches for London-headquartered teams hiring across the UK and Europe.