Platform Science - Head of Product Managment
Requirements
• Proven Leadership: 8+ years in product management with a strong track record of leading, mentoring, and developing teams of Product Managers and Product Owners in a B2B environment. • Proven Leadership: • Domain Expertise: Prior experience in the transportation industry, telematics, fleet management, logistics, mobility software, or multi-layered SaaS/hardware environments is highly required. • Domain Expertise: • Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Proven experience serving on leadership teams, setting multi-country roadmaps, managing product budgets, and driving business metrics/OKRs. • Strategic & Commercial Acumen: • Technical Understanding: Deep understanding of software architecture, SaaS models, web/mobile applications, hardware integration, and telco constraints. • Technical Understanding: • Communication: Exceptional cross-cultural communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills across international cross-functional teams. • Communication: • Travel Requirements: Willingness and ability to travel to various European office locations and customer sites (~25% of the time). • Education: Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent practical experience. • Education: • Languages: Fluency in English is mandatory. A good understanding of Dutch and/or French is a strong advantage. • Languages: • English • Dutch and/or French
Responsibilities
• Leadership & Team Growth • Lead and Inspire: Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of Product Managers and Product Owners distributed across multiple European hubs. • Lead and Inspire: • Culture & Mentorship: Cultivate a collaborative, psychologically safe, and continuous-learning environment. Guide your team on backlog health, stakeholder alignment, market validation, OKR setting, and customer discovery best practices. • Culture & Mentorship: • Resource & Capacity Management: Structure teams effectively to ensure optimal allocation across core maintenance, strategic growth initiatives, and regional localization. • Resource & Capacity Management: • Product & Portfolio Strategy • Portfolio Strategy: Define and execute the multi-year product strategy for Mobility solutions across European markets, aligning product goals with broader business unit growth targets. • Portfolio Strategy: • Roadmap Ownership & Global Influence: Own the European product roadmap while actively influencing the North American (NA) roadmap for common global products, balancing short-term technical enhancements with long-term technological standards and market opportunities. • Roadmap Ownership & Global Influence: • Lifecycle Governance: Oversee end-to-end product lifecycles—from market analysis and requirement definition to go-to-market enablement and deprecation. • Lifecycle Governance: • Executive Leadership & Commercial Alignment • Senior Leadership Team (SLT): Serve as an active contributor to the executive leadership team running the Europe Mobility business, influencing commercial strategy, operational direction, and regional expansion. • Senior Leadership Team (SLT): • Financial Oversight: Manage the product portfolio budget, monitor product KPIs, forecast revenue impacts, and ensure product financial health. • Financial Oversight: • Cross-Functional Alignment: Partner with Engineering, Go-To-Market (Sales & Marketing), Customer Support, and Operations to ensure complete operational readiness for product releases. • Cross-Functional Alignment: • Market & Customer Focus • Customer Voice: Act as an executive sponsor for key regional customers, partners, and enterprise accounts across Europe, integrating feedback into product decisions. • Customer Voice: • Market Intelligence: Monitor fleet management, telematics, and logistics technology trends across target countries to anticipate threats and capture market share. • Market Intelligence:
Benefits
• Platform Science offers a comprehensive, market-leading package to regular, full-time employees in Belgium: • Compensation & Mobility: Competitive salary as per market norms, corporate bonus scheme, and a Company Car (+ fuel/recharge card). • Company Car • Time Off: 20 statutory leave days + 12 ADV days (32 days total) + 1 Global Day of Service. • Time Off: • Allowances: Monthly meal vouchers (€7.50/day), Home Working Allowance, Internet Allowance, and annual Ecocheques (€250). • Allowances: • Insurance & Retirement: Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance (DKV), Group/Life Insurance (Baloise), and a company-funded pension contribution. • Insurance & Retirement: • Professional Value: High-level international exposure, global roadmap influence (EMEA & NA), deep autonomy to drive end-to-end product strategy, and career growth within an expanding, innovative global organization. • Professional Value:
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