Head of Product

About the position

We are Merlin Digital Partner! A leading IT and Digital headhunting company who stands out from the crowd, boasting over a decade of experience. We've successfully collaborated and played a pivotal role in the growth of industry heavyweights such as Wallapop, Glovo, Banc Sabadell, among others.

Our emphasis lies in people-centric approaches and optimizing the selection processes. Our mission is to revolutionize companies by seamlessly integrating top-tier talent. What sets us apart is our in-depth understanding of each partner (being their best influencer!), addressing not only their needs but also capturing their essence.

We are currently looking for a Head of Product to support the exciting launch of the business in the Edtech industry.

Our Partner is a dynamic start-up. It is developing an Edtech Marketplace based in Barcelona with great growth potential and remarkable social impact, and need your help. 

Role:

• Work with the founders on developing a robust product vision and long-term strategy.
• Understand our users and root out friction to deliver the most intuitive journey that will allow seniors to discover experiences and build meaningful connections with other seniors.
• Attract the best talent to build a team of product managers, product designers and product data scientists.
• Collaborate with design, engineering, data and other multidisciplinary team members to identify product opportunities, develop hypotheses, and create high-impact solutions for our customers.
• Lead a cross-functional team towards outcomes by translating OKRs into an executable roadmap, prioritized backlogs.
• Help remove friction from the product development process to ensure the timely, accurate and successful delivery of products.
• Prioritize features in close collaboration with our tech lead and engineering team
• Create trust and transparency by communicating team progress and results to stakeholders; help the organization celebrate successes and learn from failures.
• Being the voice of the user within the company through research and regular interaction with users.

We need:

• 5+ years experience in product management.
• Experience in combining quantitative and qualitative insights to identify opportunities and prioritize them.
• Ability to envision the desired outcomes and think backwards to build the path with an iterative and lean approach, conscious of the risk-validation equilibrium required for every type of iteration.
• Define and analyze metrics that inform the success of products.
• Skilled problem solver you can break big problems into smaller, more manageable challenges and you're comfortable making fast, high quality product decisions using both quantitative and qualitative data.
• Comfort in a rapidly changing business environment that is typical of a fast growing company.
• Articulate communicator. You can convey business pain and needs clearly with multiple stakeholders, and you bring those people together to deliver value.

We offer:

• Attractive salary package.
• A great culture based in trust, anger for learning and can do attitude.
• A great commitment to improve senior’s lives.
• An opportunity to the first product hire and join the company at a very early stage.
• Relying on an expert and solid team.
• Dynamic, multidisciplinary and international professional environment and a great opportunity in a high growth sector.
• Great offices in Barcelona Center.

Are you ready for the challenge? Apply now!

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