Head of Product
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Lead the development of a category-leading equity management platform at Vestd. Drive product vision, strategy, and execution while mentoring product managers.
Responsibilities:
- Define and articulate a compelling long-term product vision aligned with company goals.
- Translate a vision into a clear, customer-centric product strategy and roadmap.
- Identify new commercial opportunities across equity management (EMI/CSOP, valuations, cap tables, investor reporting, scenario modelling, data integrations).
- Understand emerging market trends in FinTech, equity operations, and compliance.
- Prioritise product initiatives based on customer value, business impact, and feasibility.
- Ensure roadmaps are realistic, well-communicated, and tightly aligned with GTM teams.
- Drive strong delivery discipline across the product teams.
- Own the full product lifecycle: discovery → validation → design → delivery → iteration.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team of Product Managers.
- Introduce best practices in product process, frameworks, documentation and decision-making.
- Deeply understand user needs across founders, CFOs, legal teams, HR, employees, investors and advisors.
- Regularly run discovery interviews, usability sessions and validation workshops.
- Translate insights into actionable product opportunities.
- Align with Revenue, Partnerships, Marketing and CS on positioning, launches and adoption.
- Collaborate with RevOps and Data teams to measure product usage, behavioural signals, and feature impact.
- Lead product training for internal teams.
- Use product analytics tools and dashboards to monitor adoption, retention, churn signals and feature utilisation.
- Measure and improve key product metrics.
- Establish a product decision-making framework that balances speed with rigour.
- Develop a strong understanding of company equity structures, cap table logic, share schemes (EMI/CSOP), valuations, tax rules, and investor compliance.
- Work with subject-matter experts to translate complex topics into simple, intuitive product experiences.
Requirements:
- 6 or more years in Product Management, with at least 3-4 years in a senior product leadership role.
- Experience in B2B SaaS, preferably with complex workflows, multi-stakeholder products, or financial/operational tools.
- A track record of shipping high-quality software at pace.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on product execution.
- Very strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering, design, and commercial teams.
- Data-driven decision-making with excellent analytical and research skills.
- Experience leading and developing Product Managers.
- Nice to have: Experience in equity management, payroll/HR tech, financial SaaS, or compliance-heavy domains.
- Nice to have: Experience building onboarding, activation, or PLG-style product experiences.
- Nice to have: Experience integrating with accounting, HRIS, payroll, banking, or legal platforms.
Benefits:
- A flexible environment to help you achieve the best work/life balance.
- An Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), of course! (After the qualifying period).
- Monthly recognition scheme, where we celebrate our folk.
- Support with home working equipment*.
- A personal training and development budget to keep your career and professional growth on track.
- Private medical insurance (after the qualifying period).
- Team retreats are held twice a year. They can include an overnight stay and focus on fun and team cohesion.
- Great team ethos, connect through regular team and company socials.
- 25 days annual leave, plus one extra day per year of service (up to five days).
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