# Forward-Deployed Product Lead

**Company**: ICIS
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Product Management
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

ICIS is building its first forward-deployed product team and is seeking a Forward-Deployed Product Lead to lead this effort.

The successful candidate will work directly with chemicals customers to define what customer-embedded, discovery-led product development looks like at ICIS by identifying high-value problems, validating solutions quickly, and demonstrating measurable commercial value.

**Responsibilities:**

- Lead two to three active forward-deployed initiatives with named chemicals customers at any one time.

- Deliver the first working proof of concept to a customer within 60 days of joining.

- Drive the first paid pilot to go live within one quarter.

- Own the squad's discovery and delivery rhythm, ensuring weekly customer engagement.

- Maintain a live discovery view for every initiative.

- Act as the taste gate for all outputs, ensuring no PRD is created without a working proof of concept.

- Make decisions to kill, pivot, or promote discovery tracks based on evidence and customer value.

- Create documented playbooks and enablement materials for Sales and central productisation teams when patterns are validated.

**Requirements:**

- A track record in customer-back, forward-deployed or embedded product work.

- Customer judgement at senior levels.

- Leadership through influence.

- Commercial judgement in the field.

- Technical fluency to direct delivery.

- Comfort working in ambiguity.

- Communication that adjusts for audience.

- Alignment with the Data Services Mindset and RELX Leadership Excellence.

**Benefits:**

- Country-specific benefits are available. Please click here to access benefits specific to your location.

## Skills

### Required
- customer-back product work
- leadership through influence
- commercial judgement
- technical fluency
- data services mindset

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