Product Manager - Striive Partner Services

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 

As the product leader for your team, you will: 

• 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.