Head of Product – Core Journeys

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Head of Product leading core hiring-to-invoicing platform journeys at Safeguard Global. Owning product strategy, delivery, customer outcomes, and product-manager development across global teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Own the end-to-end platform experience across the core client journey, including transitions between platform areas
  • Identify failing client experiences and set corrective plans
  • Own regulatory and compliance obligations as product requirements, working with legal, tax, and in-country teams
  • Translate platform strategy and commercial priorities into a prioritised order of work
  • Feed prioritisation into the single roadmap owned by the SVP, Product
  • Recommend what to build, defer, or retire and secure leadership agreement
  • Build business cases for significant investment, including value, payback, and trade-offs
  • Sequence commercial priorities with Directors of Product
  • Hold accountability for on-time delivery and quality
  • Collaborate with engineering and design leadership from idea shaping through release
  • Work with sales, marketing, customer success, finance, and legal to ensure launches are understood, sellable, supportable, and compliant
  • Identify and resolve delivery risks and manage dependencies
  • Build continuous understanding of customer and internal pain points and opportunities
  • Ground product decisions in client insight, usage data, and market evidence
  • Raise discovery and validation standards across teams
  • Define expected outcomes for investments and own delivered value
  • Own platform NPS and adoption for the core journey
  • Act as product expert in senior client and prospect conversations and represent the platform externally
  • Line manage product managers
  • Set expectations, give feedback, and address performance issues
  • Coach product managers and develop their capabilities
  • Drive AI adoption where it creates the best outcomes

Requirements:

  • Eight or more years in product, including at least five leading people
  • Proven experience leading product managers in a B2B SaaS or platform business
  • Experience owning a multi-team product area end to end, with accountability for delivery and value delivered
  • Record of defining expected investment value up front and evidencing what was realised
  • Experience building products in a regulated environment
  • Technical depth to discuss architecture, platform scalability, and data with engineering leadership
  • Demonstrable record of developing product managers
  • Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Warm, open, honest, and fun to work with
  • Knowledge of the HR industry is preferred but not critical

Benefits:

  • Remote first, with flexibility to include school runs and gym breaks in your schedule
  • Paid leave to bond with your new family member
  • 2 charitable days
  • Reward & Recognition Program
  • Annual bonus scheme or sales incentive plan
  • Flexible coworking space options based on location
  • Access to 2 learning platforms for continuous growth