Job Specifications
Head of Product
Location: remote (only UK)
Salary: up to £95,000
Job Purpose
You will be responsible for shaping and executing the product vision and roadmap while playing a hands-on role driving execution turning customer, market, and usage insights into actionable decisions and shipped product. You will balance strategy & planning with hands-on execution and delivery - prioritising ruthlessly, managing trade-offs, and delivering MVPs at pace.
Partnering closely with Customer Success, GTM & Engineering and AI/ML teams, you will launch and iterate products that deliver customer value and commercial impact. Establishing fit-for-purpose processes, KPIs, and feedback loops enabling effective execution as we scale.
Combining strategy with hands-on execution, you'll build the team, systems, and innovation engine that drive our next phase of growth and position at the forefront of AI in work design.
Responsibilities
Define and execute product strategy grounded in customer insights and commercial goals
Set up and manage process to gather insights from customers, internal teams and external market and translate into actionable product decisions
Navigate competing stakeholder needs to build consensus, prioritise and drive product decisions
Drive product execution with an MVP mindset, ensuring product initiatives ship on time and within scope
Establish and track product KPIs to optimize product usage and customer value and proactively adjust priorities to improve outcomes
Establish product management processes that balance speed of execution with structure and process fit-for-purpose for a company at our stage
Work with Customer Success and GTM team teams to provide clear customer-focused messaging, positioning, and product understanding
Requirements:
Experience in product management within B2B SaaS enterprise, from roadmap creation to end-to-end delivery in a fast-paced environment
Experience thriving in a start-up/scale-up environment, with an insane ability to cut through noise, turn chaos into calm and prioritise what matters the most
Technical fluency (understand technical concepts, architectures, integrations, APIs) with strong analytical and problem-solving skill
Experience building product foundations, establishing scalable processes, tools, and ways of working suited to an evolving organisation
Great project management skills with a high attention to detail, can obsessively prioritise and keep projects and all those involved on track
A natural ability to manage and influence stakeholders at all levels from CEO, Customer Success, Sales to Engineering teams
A strong commercial mindset, with an obsession for delivering value to retain customers and driving revenue growth
A proactive, hands-on mindset - comfortable working at pace and in a fast-changing environment.
Motivation to be part of a scaling start-up where things evolve quickly and you can have a real impact.
Start-up life is not for everyone! To really thrive with us you will be 'Start-up ready'. You are naturally proactive, open to change, have a continuous improvement mindset, are flexible, happy to go beyond your brief, enjoy working at pace and are comfortable with ambiguity.
About the Company
Mekion Consulting specialises in helping startups build high-performing teams through a combination of expert recruitment and tailored strategic consulting. Our mission is to empower startups by connecting them with exceptional talent and providing strategic talent consulting designed specifically for their unique growth needs. We support your business as it grows and scales, offering hands-on mentorship and investor-aligned talent strategies. Our goal is to help you navigate the challenges of building a strong, sustainable ...
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