Head of Product

Entsia; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Entsia is seeking a Head of Product in Sydney to own what the platform builds and why, ensuring direction is clear, prioritised, and aligned to customer and commercial outcomes. You will establish the frameworks, decision-making, and ways of working that enable scalable, reusable product development, and you will participate in Senior Leadership Team decisions shaping the business.

The role requires strong leadership across Product and Engineering, a track record of delivering platform-based

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineering in a B2B SaaS or platform business.
• Proven ability to establish and evolve engineering as a coherent function.
• Experience leading through managers and senior leaders.
• Shaping engineering environments toward scalable, platform-based approaches.
• Set and maintain technical direction across evolving priorities.
• Executive leadership contribution beyond engineering.

Responsibilities

• Own product direction and prioritisation aligned to customer and commercial outcomes.
• Establish frameworks and decision-making to enable scalable product evolution.
• Lead with senior leadership to influence enterprise decisions.
• Coordinate across Product, Engineering, and Delivery for alignment.
• Ensure data confidentiality and information security compliance.

Skills

Engineering leadership

B2B SaaS

Platform delivery

Leadership through managers

Scalable architecture

Enterprise alignment

Data confidentiality

Executive stakeholder management

Job description

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Head of Product

Location: Sydney, Australia

About the role

The Head of Product owns what Entsia builds and why, ensuring product direction is clear, prioritised, and aligned to customer and commercial outcomes.

The role establishes the frameworks, decision-making, and ways of working that enable the company to focus on the highest-value opportunities and evolve the platform as a scalable, reusable product.

As a member of the Senior Leadership Team, the role contributes to enterprise-level decision-making, taking ownership of company outcomes and ensuring product and commercial considerations are clearly understood in shaping business decisions.

Outcomes

• Product direction is clear, prioritised in line with enterprise strategic objectives, and trusted across the business.
• Product decisions consistently focus the organisation on the highest-value opportunities for customers and the business.
• Platform capabilities are defined as a scalable, reusable product, avoiding one-off or customer-specific solutions.
• Customers experience meaningful value from the platform, reflected in adoption, usage, and continued investment.
• Product operates as a consistent and effective system, enabling clear decision-making, alignment, and coordination across Product, Engineering, and Delivery.
• Comply with company policies and procedures on the handling of personal data, data confidentiality and information security.

Skills and Experience

The role requires the following skills and experience:

• Experience leading engineering in a B2B SaaS or platform business, with accountability for delivery, platform performance and reliability, and technical sustainability.
• Proven ability to establish and evolve engineering as a coherent function, introducing structure, standards, and consistent ways of working across multiple teams and disciplines.
• Experience leading through managers and senior leaders, building leadership capability and alignment across teams.
• Strong track record of shaping engineering environments toward scalable, platform-based approaches, balancing speed, quality, and long-term sustainability.
• Ability to set and maintain technical direction, ensuring standards, priorities and trade-offs are applied consistently across teams, particularly in environments with evolving priorities.
• Strong judgement in defining how engineering should operate as the business grows, including organisation design, capability development, and operating model evolution.
• Confidence to contribute at a leadership level, ensuring engineering considerations are clearly understood and factored into company decisions.
• Ability to operate as an enterprise leader, contributing to company-wide priorities and decisions beyond the immediate function.