Product Manager - Striive Partner Services

Maak impact als Product Manager bij HeadFirst Group

Let's be clear: we're not looking for a project manager to groom a backlog. We're looking for a true Product Manager to form and lead an empowered, cross-functional team. Your job isn't to take orders; it's to own outcomes, from discovering the most pressing problems for our professional partners to launching a global, monetized service that solves them.

If you believe that great products are built on deep customer understanding, continuous discovery, and a relentless focus on value, then we’re probably a match.

Your Mission

As the Product Manager for Professional & Partner Services, your mission is to launch and scale a new international service proposition for independent professionals and suppliers. Providing services throight the entire customer journey on Striive, addressing ánd solving real problems that professionals and suppliers are willing to pay for. You will start with creating a proposition for US, UK, and APAC markets while iterating on existing services in the Netherlands.

You will dive deep to solving the real-world problems our partners face: navigating compliance, gaining actionable insights from data, finding new opportunities, and unburdening them with essential services like insurance or learning and development. Your ultimate goal is to build a suite of services so valuable that it becomes an indispensable part of their business—and to create a powerful, supply-side monetization engine that works for our business.

The Product & The Company

HeadFirst Group’s mission is to transform the flexible labor market. We achieve this with innovative tech-and-touch solutions via our platform, Striive. With our global rollout in 2025, Striive will become the central marketplace for 1.7 million professionals, 30,000 suppliers, and thousands of clients across all time zones. You won't just be improving a feature; you'll be shaping a global ecosystem.

How We Work

You'll join one of our six cross-functional product teams. Each team has a clear mission, a dedicated Product Designer, Analyst, and Engineers, and the autonomy to solve problems in the best way they see fit. We practice continuous discovery and delivery, working in tight collaboration with our users and stakeholders. You'll have daily, intensive contact with the people you're building for, giving you the context you need to make great decisions.

The Professional & Partner Services team is foundational to our international growth. Your vision will be to create a platform that professionals and suppliers not only use but invest in because it tangibly grows and protects their business.

Your Responsibilities

• Own the Outcome: Take full ownership of the value and business viability of your product area. You're responsible for the "why" and the "what," while your team collaborates on the "how."

• Lead Continuous Discovery: Live with your customers. Lead interviews, discovery workshops, and experiments to uncover the most critical problems and opportunities to pursue.

• Shape the Strategy: Define and communicate an outcome-oriented product strategy and roadmap. You'll align the team and stakeholders around a compelling vision, not a list of features.

• Drive Delivery & Iteration: Guide your team through the entire product development cycle—from validating solutions and managing risk to releasing value and iterating based on data and user feedback.

• Champion Your Product: Be the chief evangelist for your product. You'll present demos, craft compelling product messaging, and ensure that what you build makes a measurable impact on our partners and our business.

Here’s what we offer you

• Een competitief salaris tussen € 6000 - 8500 bruto per maand op basis van 40 uur per week, afhankelijk van ervaring
• 8,33% vakantiegeld
• 27 vakantiedagen, met de mogelijkheid om extra dagen te kopen
• Een volledig premievrij pensioen bij BeFrank
• Uitstekende bonusregelingen
• Een netto internetvergoeding van €60,- per maand

What we expect from you

We're looking for a combination of craft, mindset, and experience. You'll likely have:

• Proven Product Experience: 3–5 years as a Product Manager leading an empowered, cross-functional product team in an agile environment.

• Mastery of Product Discovery: You have a toolbox of discovery techniques and know when and how to apply them. (Experience with modern ideation tools like V0, Replit, etc., is a plus).

• Business & Customer Acumen: A deep-seated curiosity for both the user's problem and the business model required to solve it profitably. Experience with marketplaces or monetizing B2B/B2B2C services is a huge advantage.

• Technical & Design Fluency: You're comfortable holding deep discussions with engineers about feasibility and with designers about user experience.

• Data Savvy: You use data to find opportunities, make decisions, and measure success. (SQL knowledge is a plus).

• Exceptional Communicator & Influencer: You are a strong storyteller who can inspire your team, manage stakeholders, and rally the company around your vision.

• Entrepreneurial Mindset: You are proactive, autonomous, and decisive. You thrive in a scaling environment where you can build something from the ground up.

• Domain knowledge of HR-tech is a plus but not required.

• Living and working in the Netherlands: You must be resident in the Netherlands, near Hoofddorp, we work Hybrid so we welcome you at our office.

Jouw voordelen bij HeadFirst Group

• 27 vakantiedagen én de mogelijkheid tot bij- of verkopen van dagen. Wij werken hard, maar vergeten niet te ontspannen.
• Viermomenten: met meer dan 450 collega's hebben wij altijd iets te vieren. Als één team staan wij stil bij verjaardagen, jubilea en andere successen!
• OpenUp & HeadFirst Group Academy: werk aan je mentale gezondheid met toegang tot het platform OpenUp. Wij leren elke dag en daarom kun je bij ons gratis opleidingen en cursussen volgen om jezelf te blijven ontwikkelen.
• Bonusregeling: je doelen behalen en dit terugzien in de vorm van een bonus? Dat kan bij ons! Hard werken wordt beloond.
• Hybride werken: werk op één van onze 4 locaties, thuis, of op elke andere plek waar jij je prettig voelt. Uiteraard ontvang jij een mobiliteits- en thuiswerkvergoeding vanuit ons.
• Ons hoofdkantoor: maak gebruik van de gratis sportfaciliteiten, fijne werkplekken en geniet van een heerlijk lunchbuffet. Een geduchte concurrent van thuis!

👑 Wij zijn een Great Place to Work!

HeadFirst Group heeft de 10e plaats behaald op de lijst van Best Workplaces Nederland 2024!

Maak alvast kennis met een collega

Daniel Boham – Product Owner

Bert Allemekinders – Product Owner RPA & Artificial intelligence

Mattijs Wassenburg – Managing Director

Christine Koekkoek – Business Analist