Head of Product

Homesearch; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

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MacBook

On-site gym & sauna

Hybrid London office

Product function opportunity

Job summary

Homesearch is seeking a Head of Product to own the product strategy and lead the engineering team. You will decide what to build, why, and in what order, unifying five products into a single, coherent direction across the company.

You'll hire the first Product Manager, set product operating standards, and partner with the leadership to drive data-driven decision making in a fast-growing PropTech company.

Qualifications

• You've owned product strategy, not been adjacent to it, and can define a clear direction.
• You've led people, accountable for a team's performance and growth.
• You're strategic and can distill a messy set of ideas into one path.
• You are a clear communicator and credible in conversations with technical peers.

Responsibilities

• Own product strategy: decide what to build, why, and in what order.
• Lead the engineering team on people, delivery, and accountability.
• Unify five products into a single coherent direction.
• Diagnose blockers in the first 30 days and take over the team.
• Build the product function by hiring the first Product Manager.
• Collaborate with Giles and leadership, bringing evidence-based judgments.
• Partner with engineering, data, design, sales and customer success.

Skills

Product strategy

Leadership

Technical credibility

B2B SaaS

Startup/Scale-up experience

Communication

Ambiguity handling

Hiring / team building

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Every year, hundreds of thousands of homeowners could move but don't, and homes that could sell never reach the market. The property market is slower and more closed than it should be. Homesearch is building the intelligence layer that gets it moving, connecting people, homes and agents through data and AI. Our vision is a fully connected, faster, more open property market.

We're one of the UK's leading PropTech platforms for estate agents, helping them win more listings, understand their local market, and turn existing contacts into new instructions. Our products, including HAILO and ReContact, are picking up real momentum and fast becoming tools agents know and trust. We're a trusted partner to Reapit, Dezrez, Rex, MRI and other leading CRMs, and we're on our way to One Homesearch: a single, unified platform rather than a collection of tools. We're a team of around 40, backed by Octopus Ventures.

About Us

Every year, hundreds of thousands of homeowners could move but don't, and homes that could sell never reach the market. The property market is slower and more closed than it should be. Homesearch is building the intelligence layer that gets it moving, connecting people, homes and agents through data and AI. Our vision is a fully connected, faster, more open property market.

We're one of the UK's leading PropTech platforms for estate agents, helping them win more listings, understand their local market, and turn existing contacts into new instructions. Our products, including HAILO and ReContact, are picking up real momentum and fast becoming tools agents know and trust. We're a trusted partner to Reapit, Dezrez, Rex, MRI and other leading CRMs, and we're on our way to One Homesearch: a single, unified platform rather than a collection of tools. We're a team of around 40, backed by Octopus Ventures.

About the Role

Product at Homesearch has been founder-led so far, and it's taken us a long way: strong data, strong engineering, products agents want. We've grown by building a lot. Five products, five logins, five data sets. What we need now is someone to own product properly, decide the direction, and lead the team that builds it.

This role brings product and engineering leadership together, which we believe is where these roles are heading. You'll set the product strategy and you'll lead the engineering team: their work, their development, how we deliver. We have an engineering lead who owns the technical side and architecture, so you're not being asked to be a CTO. You're being asked to decide what we build and why, and to lead the people building it.

You'll work closely with Giles, our founder, and you'll be building the product function as you go. That means hiring your first Product Manager early, setting the standards, and establishing how product works here. A contract product person is already underway on a scoped project and will report to you.

What You'll Do

• Own product strategy: what we build, why, in what order, and what we deliberately don't.
• Lead the engineering team on the people and delivery side. One to ones, progression, accountability, making sure we ship.
• Turn five products into one coherent direction the whole company understands.
• Diagnose what's actually getting in the way across product and engineering in your first 30 days, while taking over the team.
• Build the product function. Hire your first Product Manager, set how product works here.
• Work closely with Giles and the leadership team, bringing independent judgement and challenging with evidence.
• Partner with our engineering lead on the technical side, and across data, design, sales and customer success.

About You

• You've owned product strategy. Not been adjacent to it, not run someone else's roadmap. This is the thing we most need.
• You've led people, and you want to. You're comfortable being accountable for a team's performance and development, and you don't see management as the tax on the strategy job.
• You're strategic. You can hold a messy set of ideas and turn them into one direction people can follow.
• You're a really clear communicator. It's an important part of this role, and we're looking for a true leader.
• You're technical enough to be credible. You can follow the conversation, challenge an estimate and earn the team's respect. You don't need to be writing code.
• You've worked in startups or scale-ups, and you're used to growth environments.
• You've worked in B2B SaaS. A mix of B2B and B2C is genuinely useful given where we're going.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity and you move quickly through it rather than waiting for it clear.
• You're kind and collaborative, and you bring enough authority that people follow the direction you set.

Extra points for:

• A technical background you moved into product from.
• Coming at this from the engineering side with a genuine product track record.
• Having built a product function somewhere it didn't exist before.

How We Work

Our values run through everything we do. Remove Friction: make everything seamless. Stay Curious: ask, learn, improve. Own It: take the lead, own the result. Raise the Bar: think big, deliver value. We're high performers who care about the mission and each other. High standards, open communication, and no room for ego or politics.

Perks

• Competitive salary, plus share options, so you share in the upside you create.
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays.
• A MacBook to work on.
• An office with a free on-site gym, free yoga and gym classes, sauna and regular events.
• Hybrid working, 2 to 3 days a week at our office in London Victoria.
• The chance to build the product function at a fast-growing PropTech, at a real turning point for the company.