Head of Product

Roles and responsibilities

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading and mentoring a diverse team of 100+ engineers, providing guidance and direction on best practices and technical decisions
• Owning the product and solution architecture with a key focus on quality control and code optimisation
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to improve engineering processes and raise the bar on quality and efficiency
• Influencing best practices to ensure they're followed across the company
• Collaborating with senior leadership and key stakeholders to define and execute the technical roadmap aligned with business goals
• Optimising and reviewing team performance, aiming to increase the quality of engineering as a functional leader
• Playing a key role in the hiring process
  

What You'll Need

• A bachelor's degree (or above) in computer science, maths, physics, or a similar area of study
• Experience building and leading a significant software engineering team(s) within a scaling organisation
• Impressive software architecture skills, with experience in scalable distributed systems
• Big-picture thinking to correctly diagnose problems and build innovative solutions
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills

• Decision-Making: Strong judgment to make tough trade-off decisions about feature prioritization and resource allocation.

• Technical Understanding: Basic knowledge of the technology stack and development processes to facilitate productive conversations with the development team.

• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues quickly and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.

Desired candidate profile

• Vision and Strategy: Ability to define and articulate the product vision and strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals.

• Backlog Management: Proficient in creating, prioritizing, and managing the product backlog to maximize value delivery.

• Stakeholder Engagement: Strong interpersonal skills to gather and balance input from various stakeholders, ensuring their needs are reflected in the product.

• User-Centric Mindset: Focus on understanding user needs and pain points through research and feedback to drive product improvements.

• Analytical Skills: Ability to analyze data and metrics to make informed decisions about product direction and features.

• Agile Methodologies: Deep understanding of agile frameworks (e.g., Scrum, Kanban) and the role of a Product Owner within those frameworks.

• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey the product vision, requirements, and updates to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Decision-Making: Strong judgment to make tough trade-off decisions about feature prioritization and resource allocation.

• Technical Understanding: Basic knowledge of the technology stack and development processes to facilitate productive conversations with the development team.

• Problem-Solving: Ability to identify issues quickly and work collaboratively to find effective solutions.