Head of Product

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Take charge of the product portfolio and its ongoing enhancement.

• Collaborate closely with the founder on product strategy and positioning, including portfolio tiering and pricing.

• Translate customer insights into product decisions.

• Manage hardware development from initial concept through to manufacturing.

• Continuously enhance existing products in terms of quality, reliability, and cost.

• Establish and conduct customer research, including surveys and interviews.

• Utilize defect, return, and customer service data to pinpoint product improvements.

• Define and monitor pertinent product metrics.

• Create product specifications and PRDs for hardware and application development.

• Oversee packaging, user manuals, and product compliance.

• Collaborate with engineering, design, operations, suppliers, and external partners.

• Implement sustaining programs focused on cost, quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

• Introduce structure to product discovery, prioritization, and launches.

• Foster collaboration between Product, Operations, and Marketing.

• Provide monthly reports to leadership on product performance, portfolio advancement, and key metrics.

• Report directly to the founder and engage in the management layer.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 5 years in product management or a related field.

• Experience with electronics and connected hardware products.

• Proven track record of taking at least one hardware product from concept through to manufacturing.

• Experience in owning product positioning, tiering, and/or pricing.

• Strong grasp of portfolio strategy, including frameworks like Good-Better-Best and value/price tiering.

• Solid understanding of pricing psychology.

• Experience in product discovery and qualitative customer research, including interviews and problem framing.

• Proficient in designing and executing quantitative customer research and translating findings into product decisions.

• Strong data-driven decision-making abilities, including defining and tracking product metrics.

• Experience leveraging defect, return, customer service, and reliability data to enhance products.

• Background in running sustaining programs for cost, quality, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

• Experience with packaging, user manuals, and product compliance.

• Competence in writing product specifications and PRDs for hardware and app development.

• Familiarity with working alongside external partners such as design houses, app agencies, and contract manufacturers.

• Experience working with a Chinese supplier is mandatory.

• Startup or high-growth experience is highly preferred.

• Entrepreneurial spirit with an ownership mentality.

• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and frequent shifts in priorities.

• Hands-on, pragmatic approach with a bias towards action.

• Strong team player capable of driving initiatives independently.

• Ability to blend strategic product thinking with practical management and execution.

🏝️ Benefits

• Fully remote work arrangement.

• Access to the office in Utrecht.