Product Lead

The Role

As a Product Lead, you will lead one of our teams developing high-potential tech startups. You will be given a lot of responsibility and in many cases will be acting as a CPO for the startup you’ll be building, leading the product vision and execution together with the startup’s founder.

You will work closely with your dedicated team of designers, engineers, and QAs to ensure the product you are developing is loved by its users and that the startup you are building is achieving its business goals. Our product teams are small and effective, usually ranging from 5 to 10 people.

Who Are We Looking For

We are looking for two types of Product Leads, either coming from a business or analytical background:

Business Background

You are experienced in owning the E2E product development process as either someone seasoned in product management where you’ve consistently spent the past several years or you recently transitioned from a business-oriented role (marketing, project management, management consulting) and have some experience as a Product Manager. You possess a level of business understanding sufficient to lead startup founders into finding product-market fit.

Analytical Background

You are experienced in owning the E2E product development process as either someone seasoned in (IT) product/project management where you consistently spent the past several years or you recently transitioned from an analytically-oriented role (IT/Business analyst, IT project/program manager, data analyst) and have some experience as an (IT) Product Manager. Your analytical mind enables you to rapidly comprehend and deconstruct complex problems, leading to the creation of viable solutions.

Regardless of your background

• You have the ambition and drive to grow fast and learn quickly
• You were able to continuously prove yourself while producing quality output
• You possess the ability to build trustworthy relationships and guide startup founders and stakeholders
• You have the ability to lead and motivate the team to produce the best outcomes

Responsibilities

• Defining, driving, and executing the product vision together with the startup’s founders through product discovery
• Directing and overseeing qualitative & quantitative customer research together with your designer to ensure key insights are discovered
• Defining value proposition and go-to-market strategy to drive product-market-fit (if you come primarily from a business background)
• Driving all technical initiatives from the business side such as requirements analysis, process mapping, and data analysis (if you come primarily from an analytical background)
• Planning and executing a product roadmap
• Coordinating closely with our business development team to ensure timelines, budgets, and contracts with our startups are set appropriately and are held to
• Continuously looking for ways to improve our methodology and collaborating with our other product leads to ensure we are always improving

Skills & Requirements

• Fluent in English
• Ability to deeply understand the problems, needs, and desires of customers and turn them into business decisions (if you come primarily from a business background)
• Ability to understand the technical elements of the project in order to drive individual activities as well as contribute to the content (if you come primarily from an analytical background)
• An eye for data - ability to make objective, data-driven decisions, define product performance metrics and track them on an ongoing basis
• Experience with influencing and negotiating with stakeholders at a senior level and effectively managing their expectations
• Strong organizational skills including attention to detail
• Knowledge of agile principles
• Focus on outcomes and quality of output
• Empathetic and team player
• Driven, hard work ethic showing commitment

Product Stack

• Productboard
• Jira
• Confluence
• Miro
• Figma

Our Projects

We’ve built over 40 successful products. Here are a few from our portfolio:

• PlexTrac
• Crave
• Vette
• Plotify

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• Hybrid working environment
• 25 vacation days + 1 birthday day off + 1 additional day for every year working with OAK’S LAB (capped at 30 days)
• Top-of-the-line MacBook and hardware budget
• Budget to spend on your growth (books, courses, conferences)
• Free English lessons
• Opportunity for a bonus gained from investments in our startup partners
• Team bonding, happy hours, online games, annual offsite trips
• Outside of work activity clubs (yoga, traveling, football, tennis, etc.)
• Snacks and drinks in the office, weekly pizza, monthly breakfast
• Landmark office right on Old Town Square (dog-friendly)