Head of Product

Futureheads; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A mission-driven company in the UK is seeking a Head of Product to lead product strategy in transforming social care. This is a crucial role for driving growth, building a product-led culture, and identifying upsell opportunities. With a clear pathway to CPO for successful candidates, the position promises impactful contributions, hybrid work, and competitive equity compensation. Candidates should thrive in dynamic settings, possess strong technical and commercial skills, and be motivated by social impact.

Benefits

Up to 0.3% equity

Competitive compensation

Fast track to Head of Product

Qualifications

• Experience in two-sided marketplaces, job boards, or compliance-heavy SaaS.
• Ability to create actionable value from data.
• Ambition for the Head of Product path.

Responsibilities

• Own product discovery and delivery for a growing care-job marketplace.
• Create a product-led culture to reach funding goals.
• Identify upsell opportunities and new revenue streams.

Skills

Purpose-driven

Technical acumen

Commercial acumen

Data-driven

Strong communication

Job description

Head of product

Hybrid (3 days in the office) | Up to 0.3% Equity

About the Role

Join a mission-led team transforming social care in the UK. The platform connects private care businesses and care workers, automates immigration compliance, and delivers a fresh onboarding experience. The goal is to solve complex regulatory challenges, support talent acquisition, and drive meaningful change in a sector ready for disruption.

The Opportunity

This is the first product hire, joining with a mandate to deliver growth and shape the evolving product roadmap. Work directly with the CEO, CTO, and engineering team who’ve kept the platform moving. The role offers a fast track to CPO for those who excel and innovate. You need to have seen an early stage startup from boot‑strapped/series A to success and ready to do the same again.

You’ll be building out a team but work as an IC while you get your feet under the table. It’s a huge chance for someone who has dreamed of seeing a company grow and be part of the C‑suite team who help the CEO do it.

What You’ll Do

• Own product discovery, definition, and delivery for a fast‑growing care‑job marketplace, HR/compliance tools, and onboarding flows.
• Work to create a product‑led culture and growth mentality to head to the first round of funding and beyond.
• Engage with customers on both sides, uncover pain points, and translate compliance needs into simple, engaging workflows.
• Collaborate tightly with engineering, leveraging your expertise in platforms, integrations, and product‑led growth.
• Prioritise and break high‑level strategy into actionable sprints and story tickets using Scrum.
• Upsell: Identify opportunities to upsell new platform features to existing clients and generate new revenue streams through innovative product enhancements and market intelligence.
• Use data thoughtfully: Leverage technical skills and data insight to understand client needs, user journeys, and the broader social care landscape—then turn data into creative, disruptive solutions.
• Thrive when direction changes rapidly; bring structure but remain flexible and responsive.
• Infuse every product decision with commercial thinking, targeting both short‑term and long‑term business value.
• Stay hands‑on and collaborative: challenge and be challenged, always informed by insight.
• Ensure compliance and empathy: work with regulators, adapt to immigration changes, and put the people behind every product decision.

About You

• Motivated by purpose and real social impact.
• Strong blend of technical and commercial acumen—you can see the big picture and you deliver fast.
• Experience in two‑sided marketplaces, job boards, compliance‑heavy SaaS, or HR tech.
• Data‑driven and inventive: you use data not just to report, but to create actionable value for users and the business.
• Effective at identifying upsell opportunities and driving new revenue streams from existing product features.
• Ambition for progression and excited by the Head of Product path.
• Comfortable with ambiguity, rapid change, and non‑linear challenges.
• Great communicator with empathy for care workers and end‑users.
• Not a process zealot but bring enough structure to help a young team deliver.
• Eager to disrupt, innovate, and solve the real problems of a traditional industry.

What’s on Offer

• Foundational product leadership in a high‑growth team with a big mission.
• Direct impact on strategy, revenue generation, and sector innovation.
• Clear fast‑track to Head of Product within six months.
• Up to 0.3% equity, competitive compensation, raise planned next year.
• Hybrid work.
• We need someone who can start at the very latest January 2026.

We encourage applicants from all backgrounds, so if there is anything we can do to make our recruitment processes better for you and to allow you to show your best self, let us know. We also understand that some people require extra time to complete assessments, require alternative application methods and can also benefit from having interview questions or a guide to the type of questions pre‑interview. We are open to any suggestions or requests that you may have and are always looking for creative ways to assess talent. Our commitment to you is that you should always feel safe and secure when you’re working with us.